Running Head: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF SMART PHONES Exploring the Impacts of Smart phones Name Institution
EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF SMART PHONES 2 Exploring the Impacts of Smart phones The proliferation of smart phones in the modern era into the society has steered in an age of unparalleled connection. People in the society prefer to have a mobile device that fulfills their wants to remain connected plus be accessible at any hour. Smartphone is among mobile technologies that permit people to converse in addition to pass more easily information, like text, photo, and document via the mobile networks. People around the world are currently linked to distance associates, never-ending entertainment, as well as practically unrestricted access to information (Severin et al., 2015). With smart phones in hand, people can be able to confirm the weather, buy and sell stocks whilst fixed in traffic jam, surf the prospective passionate associates amid appointments , purchase products through online whilst footing in-store along with live- stream each others’ encounters, in an instantaneous, from opposed side of the world (Klauer et al., 2014). However, regardless of whether the smart phones have resulted in addiction, there is an effortless actuality that everything may be misused where moderation is crucial. This explanatory paper will examine the impact of smart phone to the society and the need for moderation (Bowman, Laura, Bradley & Gendron, 2010). Studies have established that 62% of employees use smart phone to attend business matters during a meal and they are more relaxed to converse, as well as access to the mobile internet through utilizing smart phones rather than any other technology device whilst absent from the office (Davey & Davey, 2014). In addition, the current generation of smartphones has offered more immense social apps plus more influential entertaining purpose to anybody who adore social network. Teenagers are the most affected by the use of smart phones that is becoming a social necessity that they cannot do without. Cavanagh (2017) investigates both the
EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF SMART PHONES 3 positive and negative effects of smart phones. The author believes that the smart phones allows teens to find other teenagers interested in similar social media connections, connect with teenagers in the world on interests such as fashion, as well as music plus feel embedded in a social network filled with meaning. The mainstream of teenagers views their smart phone as the essential to their social life (Gavanagh, 2017). Furthermore, business experts may more effortlessly access their business communications, more rapidly react to critical wants, as well as do more with less time. In addition for upcoming businesses, smart phones may offer faster access to banking obligations along with permit people to supervise their social media accounts once (Wilska, 2003).. According Twenge (2017), teens use their smart phones to connect with friends where they are able to share photos and videos with friends using social media platforms, such as Snapchat. The author says that the generation born between 1995 and 2012 are growing up with smart phones, where they have a social medial account such as Instagram ebefore they start schooling and they do not recall a time without the internet. It has been found in 2017 survey that over 5,000 teenagers in America where three out of four had an iPhone (Twenge, 2017). Smart phones tap into a deep, primal craving amongst people in the society to know everything that happening around them. The expression nomophobia has been developed to explain this trend: “No mobile phone phobia”. Nomophobia is a novel diagnosable disorder where the individuals have an illogical terror of losing or being with no the smart phone. Price (2018) underscores the fact that the use of smart phones has challenges while people take more time on smart phones that damages their abilities to focus plus reason deeply, and create new memories.
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