SOCIAL PHOBIA:

SMARTPHONE
EXISTENCE IN
MILLENNAL ERA
PRESENTS NOMOPHOBIA

Character is the result of a system

of stereotyipe principals

-David Hume

Today life is increasingly dynamic in

its progress in the sense that this very
rapid development makes the
rotation of human life move faster
but not in the same path. That in this
millennial era we have all been
treated by the presence of the
technology industry, especially
smartphones. Apparently the
existence of this smartphone has
become flesh in today's life,
especially the lives of millennials.
The existence of a smartphone not
only provides a positive impact that
greatly facilitates our lives but also
makes our lives quite wrestled with
social ills namely social phobia.
Where does this social phobia come
from? One of them is from a
smartphone that every time we use it,
smartphone that has drowned us into
addiction so that we also have the
disease of nomophobia. This paper
also reveals how this nomophobia
disease becomes a dangerous disease
like being in stage 4.

The use of Smarthphone in the

Millennial Era and the emergence
of nomophobia
A smartphone is a smart
phone that is currently owned and
used by almost everyone in the
world, including in Indonesia. In this
millennial era smartphone usage is
increasing by seeing how much
smartphone sales are. As the country
with the largest smartphone market
level in Southeast Asia, Indonesia
has total smartphone sales reaching
14.8 million units in 2013, as many
as 55 million units in 2014 and
experiencing an increase of 20% to
30% in 2017 (Nistato, 2016) . The
many functions and sophistication of
smartphones today, making their use
can not be separated from the
smartphone they have. Dependence
on mobile devices has an impact on
social life. As many as 33% of users
who work to check smartphones for
email and messages at night. In
previous studies, it was found that
most people check smartphones 34
times a day, not for purposes that
help their work, but it is a habit to
avoid discomfort. Especially for
teenagers who start the day by
playing smartphones estimated at 5
hours to 10 hours per day (Jeffrey
2012, in pradana, Mugtadiroh and
Nisafani, 2016). Besides that, based
on life project research, it shows that
in 2015 the activity of telephone
usage is developing apart from
interacting in cyberspace by 80%,
and accessing the internet by 56%.
From this data we can see that the
use of this smartphone cannot be
limited anymore and makes the user
addicted. And then suffering from
nomophobia, this disease is
convinced very language that this
disease has many adverse impacts in
various fields including culture,
economics, social and health. In this
paper the focus is on the impact on
the social field. But we need to know
that the first dimension of
nomophobia is that it cannot
communicate. This relates to the
feeling of losing an easy and instant
communication network that is
usually used to contact the people
closest. Second is the signal loss or
internet network. Third is unable to
access formation and fourth is
always feeling uncomfortable and
scared. According to Young in
(Putra, 2016) the sign of this
nomophobia is always thinking about
going online and wanting to use the
internet for a long time, lack of self-
control in the use of smartphones,
often feeling depressed and anxious,
daring to risk losing relationships to
surf. and much more. Of the many of
these signs of course the presence of
nomophobia is very influential or has
a big impact on social life.

Social Phobia as the Impact and

Existence of Nomophobia
The term nomophobia was
first introduced in a study in 2008 by
The UK post Office to investigate
the anxiety experienced by mobile
phone users. Basically the behavior
of smartphone users often feel
anxious, afraid of running out of
betray, often checking smartphones
at any time and excessive use of
smartphone is introduced with the
name (no-mobile-phone-phobia) or
more familiar with smartphone
addiction (Madagascar 2015). The
presence of a smartphone is now
triggering social problems. This is
cooled by smartphone addicts who
prefer to act in cyberspace rather
than build a surrounding
environment. Further, the example
raised by Kaunt is that the more
frequent members of the internet
family or others who are related to it,
the greater the isolation of
themselves from the environment
(Sparks 2013). This makes people
reluctant and ignorant even afraid to
grow and develop themselves in the
environment. This also creates a
social phobia. Social phobia is an
individual's anxiety about social
situations. This social phobia is a big
problem where it also disrupts social
functions. Basically, all are required
to interact with each other with
people around, but the presence of a
smartphone and then nomophobia
has already encouraged many people
to act with him. So do not be
surprised if many people today have
ready anti social. Through this
article, the writer igin reveals and
shares with the readers to be able to
control themselves in using a
smartphone in other words, do not let
the presence of a smartphone will
eliminate our identity and character
Sources:
Nistanto, R.K (2014). Indonesia
Largest Smartphone Market in
Southeast Asia
Yuwanto, L. (2010). Mobile Phone
Addict. Surabaya: Putra Media
Nusantara