School of Education

Modern Languages Department

Period: 2020-II
Reading comprehension and production IV
Name: José Manuel Bocanegra Orozco
Professor: Renè Alejandro Salazar

Phubbing and Nomophobia by Smartphones

Communicating has never been easier; yet smartphones are harmful to

young people for these reasons. To begin with, using excessively these

technologies can be negative, why? It’s quite simple: We will get an issue called

Phubbing; that according to magazine Interesting is a kind of dissociative

disorder which distract us of our real life. In other way, if we spend much time in

front of our cellphones it will create Nomophobia; it means that we get a

dependency for our smartphone either when we go out or when we cannot take

it. Besides, this ill makes feel us bad; for instance: we will get anxiety and

tachycardia. Smartphones has changed our lives; we know it and we accept

them as a good way to communicate with other people. Nevertheless, its bad

use causes these serious troubles; so we should become awareness about it in

order to avoid them. To summarize and in conclusion, Smartphones has

brought bad things to young people.