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Lee1 Lee Si Eun Professor Vincent Gilhooley English 202 25 May 2017 Negative effects of smartphone on human Mankind always try to make their life more convenient and efficient. In the procedure of advance, ‘smartphone’ came out and made a revolution on earth. Then it influenced people’s life style in many ways. The word ‘smartphone’ means a mobile personal computer with an advanced mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or handheld use. With the valuable functions, smartphones provide services by diverse applications that have different performances. Because of this convenience, the number of smartphones owners have jumped from 35% to 68% between 2011 and 2015. (Marty-Dugas 9) Consequently, smartphone brought various side effects to human. There appeared people who are addicted to smartphones and it can be harmful to their daily life. Constantly keep in touching with people on smartphones even though they have nothing to communicate is smartphone addiction. (Sarwar 7) People who are addicted to the smartphones are increasing more and more. However, it can cause problems on people’s socialization, concentration, and health problem. First, people can be affected by smartphones on their socialization. Some people who more like to interact on the SNS came out in society. For example, people who have poorer social skills tend to have more frequent use of the Internet with smartphones. It appeared that loneliness has been found to be significantly associated with smartphones addiction. Those people who are lonely have trouble with face-to-face communication would like to interact

Lee2 with people on their smartphone like social networking applications. (Leung, 2) Even though they can communicate well on the smartphones, they couldn’t when they face people. In addition, many smartphone s who work for an organization are getting stress because they are encouraged to monitor their work-related e-mails constantly even after working hours. (Sarwar, 8) In other words, smartphone is making workers to do the business even in their home too. The fact that they cannot have free time in their own place can cause them to have great exhaustion. “In short, the higher integration of the work and home facilitated by Smartphone result in work–home interference (WHI), which is considered as a potential source of stress that having negative effect on employee social and family life.” (Sarwar, 8) Secondly, an alteration in distraction has been triggered by smartphone. As the internet is in people’s hand and can handle it with their fingers, they cannot take their eyes off from smartphones easily. Looking into various social networking sites is what people usually do with their smartphones. Because of SNS’s trait, smartphone s keep check their SNS even though there are no alarms. Besides, as SNS frequently gives new materials, people get attracted to many interesting things. Furthermore, a research has revealed that people frequently used smartphones unconsciously. (Marty-Dugas, 2017) For this reason, when they are being with other people, they habitually check their smartphones, not concentrating on their communications. Moreover, on a research, some people believed they had missed important information because of distraction from smartphones. (J. katz-sidlow, 1) It means that people could miss the information they might have to be aware of and it could cause bad result in some way. Plus, smartphones affected student’s performances. Today, many students are using smartphones and other electronic devices during the class. They were likely to multitask but they were distracted and distract others too. As they use more devices, they got lower grade in class performance. (J. katz-sildow, 4) Also, it is not only distracting for the student, but it can also become distracting for other students around them and even

Lee3 sometimes for whole class (Sarwar, 5) Finally, smartphone can be detrimental to health. Lookout, a mobile security company conducted a study on Smartphone s in USA and found that 58% of Smartphone s check their phones at least once in an hour and another 54% of respondents said that they check their phone even while going to bed to sleep. (Sarwar, 7) Plus, according to another survey, 33% of mobile workers itted that they check their phones for email and message throughout the night. “Nearly 50% of those surveyed said, they wouldn’t even think of going to bed without have their Smartphone ‘s tucked under their pillows.” (8) Indeed, smartphones are invading sleeping time and disturb people to get sufficient and deep sleep. Insufficient sleep can make people’s daily performances lower. (Lanaj, 2014) On the other hand, according to an article, smartphone addiction is not just a buzzword but researchers have recognized habitual and compulsive communicating as a serious psychic problem. It is also established that obsession with our Smartphone is also responsible for significantly altering our brain ‘s perception for the device. (Sarwar, 7) In light of these reasons, it is so true that many people cannot adequately accomplish their given tasks fully due to unnecessary usage of smartphones. Misuses of smartphones are making people’s body fatigue and disturbs their life pattern. Of course, smartphones are being greatly helpful to get through lots of difficulties, but overuse of them could be a tragic rather than assistance. Smartphone use to interact with friends or family might be way more convenient, but there should be a boundary of using it. Keep touching it with fingers even a person is right at the front would be distractive and couldn’t give full attention to the person. When studying, smartphone is the best interruption and people might can’t take eyes off from it if it in sight. A good way to get rid of this habit, when wanted to completely concentrate on the study, is setting up a time. For example, a person is going to study for a subject, then

Lee4 he/she could set up the time for an hour and take a rest for 10minutes and continue to study again with the same way. Before going to sleep, it is good to put smartphones away from people. It might give people a fully deep sleep to start the next day freshly. The comfiest thing can be the most harmful thing in your life.

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