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Introduction
Technology and gadgets nowadays have been imbedded in our daily lives.
These are basically helping us to make our lives easier. Every day we use these
these are very important as the human race moves forward to new revolutions and
access almost everything with a tap and the needed information is already there.
Every year gadgets are being improved and they evolve over time. However with
great power comes with a great consequence not only to our social lives but in our
mental and physical lives. Before framing the cons of gadgets, we know that we
want our lives to become easier. By the use of gadgets accessing things that are
needed to be done in person can now be done online such as online banking,
online shopping, online, watching movies with your friends can now be done online
But if gadgets have so much benefits, what makes it addicting and bad? Well
can cause eye strains, hearing problems, and causing harm to your spine.
The Problem
As people overuse their gadgets and become too dependent on it, it causes
a lot of harm not only mentally but physically. With that being said the problem now
Methodology
In this research article, it aims to find out ways to manage gadget addiction.
But before focusing on the gadget addiction itself, let us find out the causes and
the differences of gadget addiction from different ages from 13-18. This allows to
figure out why ages have different addiction times or different gadget addiction
understand gadget addiction with further proof. Tackling the problem this way
Results
18%
<5hrs
>5hrs
82%
13% 2-3hrs
37% <5hrs
25%
>5hrs
1-2hrs
25%
9% 2-3hrs
23%
23% <5hrs
>5hrs
45% 1-2hrs
Most used apps among ages 13-18
Twitter
15%
Facebook
3% 34% Messenger
3% Tiktok
8% Educational
Games
Netflix
15% 6%
Instagram
10% 6%
Youtube
The data was conducted in only one day and was able to gather 30
participants for the survey. According to the participants, people from age 13-14
says that 50% will not be able to survive without gadgets meanwhile another 50%
will be able to survive without gadgets. To the participants 15-16, 72.72% of the
participants could survive without any gadgets meanwhile the other 27.28% will not
be able to survive without it. Finally, participant’s ages 17-18 could not 69.23%
could not survive without any gadgets and the remaining 30.77% could survive
without any gadgets. We can conclude for the first question that majority of the
participants could survive without the use of gadgets but there is still a huge
amount of people saying that they could not live without gadgets.
To the second question, ages 13-14 says that most of them spent more than
5 hours on their gadgets meanwhile 18% says they only spend less than 5 hours.
Most in the age of 15-16 says that they are able to spend 2-3 hours only on their
gadgets however we can still see that 25% still spends an amount of less than 5
hours and more than 5 hours with 13% spending 1-2 hours. In ages 17-18, the
majority uses their gadgets for more than 5 hours. 23% of the participants only
spent less than five hours while the other only uses 2-3 hours, and lastly the 9% on
Finally, in the last question which pertains to their mostly used apps in their
gadget, it is clear that most of the participants spends a lot of time in Twitter as it
garnered 34%. In second place we have YouTube as the 2 nd most used apps with
Discussion
When conducting the survey, it is observed that a lot of people are more
abundant in social media apps such as Twitter and as they look for entertainment
assignments. In the gathered data, it is also observed that there are people that are
playing games or using entertainment sites such as Netflix and YouTube. Now with
this information, how can people be addicted to their gadgets? It comes with a lot
of factors but it is understood that the gadgets are used for educational purposes.
But since social media app, Twitter ranked first, it is clear that it is not only for
academic purposes. The participants uses social media apps to communicate and
connect with their friends but it comes with a price. Too much of screen time can
cause a lot of damage not only physically but mentally. The average screen time
should be at least 2-3 hours with breaks in between 20 minutes. But as observed,
most of the teenagers spend more than 5 hours a day during social media,
With that being said, how can we manage gadget addiction? Most of the
people can’t really escape their gadgets because even education or schooling is
way where we reduce the physical and mental risks inflicted to ourselves and to
others.
First is keeping the use of gadgets to the minimum. Only use it if it is really
as possible, do not overuse it. By allocating only 2-3 hours of everyday with breaks
you can help to lessening your own screen time. Second is keeping yourself busy
whenever you feel the urge to use your phone unnecessarily. For example, you can
engage in hobbies that can help you in keeping your mind off the social media
notifications. Only keep notifications that are very important like school related
and only check if really needed. Fourth is setting limits to viewing times. There are
settings on the smartphone that allows you to have a “downtime” where it prevents
you from accessing apps such as Facebook, YouTube and other social media
related apps and you can only open apps such as Google, Safari and you can
customize this to what you prefer. With this, these are things that what can be
done so that instead of completely avoiding screen time, we can help lessening it.
Conclusion
Gadget addiction is very rampant nowadays and as we find ways to limit our
screen time we must understand the factors that are behind gadget addiction. This
overuse of gadgets can cause so much damage that influences your life and health
as a whole. There are a lot of advantages to gadgets but there is so much more to
it than what meets the eye. Without doubt we really cannot avoid using gadgets as
we use them for mostly everything in our lives especially during the pandemic as
the classes are now online and now that there are places that are on lockdown, one
of their ways in getting food online is through food delivery to their houses so they
manage gadget addiction into turning it into something that we only use for the
most important things? The significance of the results is that we now know what
causes the addiction or a part of the addiction giving us an idea of what we should
be focusing on in which based on the results is the overuse of social media as they
use it for more than 5 hours. The ways in which you can manage it is through
Keeping Use to Minimum, Keeping Yourself Busy, Turning off Notifications, and
Setting Viewing Limits on Your Phone. By following these steps, you can fully
manage your gadget addiction with a mix of being responsible and being aware of
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