Smartphones Do More Harm Than Good Research Paper 2022

Running Head: SMARTPHONES DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
SMARTPHONES DO MORE HARM THAN GOOD
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Phones were invented to enhance the way of human connectivity through
communication. Every individual entity of this entire world is involved in an invisible
competition. To win this competition every human being are engaged with some kind of
profession (Hatuka & Toch, 2016). This is the reason people are scattered all over the globe
departing from the family members. Phones are the way to enhance the mode of
communication and smartphones made it a device used for multipurpose computing with
mobility. It was given the name ‘Angler’ at the initial stage of its invention. As an amazing
invention of technology it infuses various facilities including voice call, video call, serves the
purpose of entertainment with social media platforms. It has broken down the limit of
ordinary cell phones that only serves for voice calling and text messages. Recently a
smartphone has the capacity to perform numerous activity apart from the mentioned ones. It
has gained the capability of a computer in a miniature version. The mode of touch is used to
enhance the user interface and user experience (Han & Cho, 2016). The extraordinary
features of smartphones establish this device as more than a phone. No doubt, technology has
eased up the lifestyle of common people; it has some dark phases however. This paper
presents an argument on the agenda about the beneficial and harmful aspects of smartphones.
This particular paper is supporting the statement that smartphones are harmful while being
useful at the same point of time. It will discuss about the dark side of this smart innovation of
technology. It will provide enough evidence for this argument. Additionally, this paper will
demonstrate the probable steps can be taken to improve the technology without harming the
humankind.
Firstly, emergence of smartphones is omitting many traditional daily practices from
the livelihood. During the traditional era, the first task in the morning was reading a
newspaper with a cup of tea. A common man grows up seeing this practise performed by his
predecessors. In this era of smartphones, the practice of newspaper reading is restricted at a

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certain level. There are various e-news sites where people can read daily news staying at
home or outside. Reading books and newspapers are symbols of traditional aristocracy, which
is getting an extinct feature of the recent society. Secondly, the human physical and mental
health is getting highly impacted by the unbarred use of smartphones. Using smartphones is
addictive in nature (Samaha & Hawi, 2016). According to many users, spending time using
smartphones either for important and unimportant purpose is addictive. People spend hours
and hours in communicating with smartphones. The short length of blue light waves are
extremely harmful for brains that can leads to diseases including tumour and cancers. Beside
this, constantly using the smartphone lowering down the head leads to shoulder and neck
pain. Continuous texting in smartphones lead to arthritis of thumb that include tender feeling
at the base of the thumb. This disease also familiar with the term osteoarthritis. Texting or
speaking over the phone while driving is one of the main reasons of car accidents (Haug et
al., 2015). The screen of the smartphones is full of germs that leads to various skin problems
including acne and other rashes. Even the nervous system also affects by the extreme use of
smartphones as a result people can develop Cubital Tunnel Syndrome. The symptom of this
syndrome is compressed elbow that leads a sensational feeling in the ring and little finger.
Continuous staring at the screen of the smartphones affects the eyesight also. If studied
properly the list of the negative impacts of smartphones will grow longer and longer.
However, people those are standing against of the discussed statement have their own
perspective of supporting agendas. Smartphone has open up a new dimension in the corporate
industry (Demirci, Akgönül & Akpinar, 2015). Emergence of smartphones has flourished the
company revenue of application development agencies. Along with this, smartphones has
great impact on education system. Using the internet on smartphone is easy enough to use for
the students and the educators also. People can collect information about health, society,