Impact of Smartphones on Millennials: Advantages and Disadvantages

Critical Thinking and
Managerial decision
making

introduction
 Mobile phones have facilitated globalization and increase
connectivity between family and friends.
 smartphones have facilitated access to information and
entertainment.
 In a survey conducted in 2016 by Bank of America, 95 percent of
millennials, aged between 18 to 25 years, retaliated the importance
of smartphones in their lives.

Advantages and disadvantages of
smartphones
advantages
 Smartphones bridge the technology
and infrastructure gap.
 The prevalence use of smartphones
devices has increase globalization
through the provision of
interconnection opportunities.
 Stranton university research in
2013, that indicated; mobile
economy contributes to over 2.4
trillion US dollars in the international
market and created over 10 million
jobs (Choi, Jung & Lee, 2013).
disadvantages
 use of smartphones especially
during the night can affect the
sleeping patterns of the user
(Lanaj, Johnson & Barnes,
2014).
 it is because the phones
produce blue light that makes
the brain fail to produce sleep
hormone