Increase in Mobile Phone Usage Amongst Youth

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Has There Been an Increase in the Mobile Phone Usage amongst the Youth?
In the modern society, mobile phone has become one of the key communication devices
across the world (Rice et al. 2016). It has in fact become a popular technology for people
belonging to the various ages especially the university and the college students. It has been
found that the young generation remains more addicted to the cell phone. In the year 200l, the
subscriptions of the mobile phones reached closer to a billion across the world with the major
contribution coming in from developed countries. At the end of the year, 2010, subscription for
the mobile phones reached close to five billion that also included the developing countries along
with the developed countries. There has been a similar study conducted in Europe in the year
2014 (Ahsan ul U HaQ and Sajid Dar 2014) that concluded that usage of mobile phones have
increased amongst Youth who stays away from their homes.
The aim of my research lies in determining the pattern of the cell phone usage amongst
the youth. I tried to organize the study in two steps. In the first step, I tried to put across some
information about the improvement in the usage of the mobile phone. In the second step I tried to
discuss some literature regarding the usage of the mobile phones within age group of 18 to 85
years. I have tried to conduct the study on an explorative basis without considering any
hypothesis.
Nowadays, the mobile phones remain available to people right from 12 years of age. The
mobile phone technology has helped in bringing the world closer. It enabled greater convenience
in communication among the people by means of either texting or calling (Pourrazavi et al
2014). Besides, in recent times, the mobile phones are also available with various features like
the internet access, games, sending of e-mails and access to the social networking sites like the