The Impact of Smartphones on Society: A Critical Analysis Report

This report examines the multifaceted impact of smartphones, particularly focusing on their influence on millennials. It explores both the advantages and disadvantages associated with smartphone use, including their role in facilitating globalization, providing access to information and entertainment, and their impact on the economy. The report highlights the benefits of smartphones, such as bridging the technology gap and enabling access to educational resources. However, it also addresses the negative consequences, such as sleep disruption, increased social pressure, cyberbullying, and potential addiction. The analysis incorporates research from various sources to support the claims, providing a comprehensive overview of the subject. The report concludes that while smartphone use has adverse effects, controlled usage can mitigate these issues.

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

Cont’d. smartphones affect sleep

Cont’d
 Smartphones give users the
ability to access information
from any part of the world.
 Advertising companies can
advertise various brands to
different users all around the
world.
 A survey was done by Placecast
in 2014 established that about
40 percent of consumers rely on
mobile platform reviews from
other customers to inform their
buying decisions.
 Smartphones have been attributed
to cause increased social pressure
and distractions.
 There has been some case of
depression and even suicide that
have been reported.
 This comes with the pressures that
are portrayed by social media sites.
 The continuous use of smartphones
limits social interactions.
 smartphones use has increased the
cases of cyberbullying which
hampers on the mental health of the
user.

Cont’d. smartphones affect social
interaction

cont’d, smartphones are addictive

Cont’d
 Smartphones are an important tool
for learning.
 This is because the current
smartphones are equipped with
applications and web browsers.
 Goggle develops the operating
system for major smartphone
companies.
 Goggle Chrome enables
smartphone user to browse various
sites, among them educational sites.
 The advent of smartphones has
enabled students to acquire vital
academic materials and information.
 Smartphone use can lead to
addiction.
 some apps in smartphones
encourage users to maintain certain
‘streaks.’
 Most millennials are constantly
checking their Instagram account to
follow up on their favorite celebrity
or their friends and this can form a
repetitive behavior (Nath &
Mukherjee, 2015).
 This addiction prevents the
individual from living a healthy
lifestyle.

conclusion
 The continuous use of smartphones has been found to adversely
affects the millennials.
 The use of smartphone however, facilitates more good than harm.
 In rebuttal, using the smartphones in a controlled setting can limit the
adverse effects discussed.

References
 Choi, J., Jung, J., & Lee, S. W. (2013). What causes users to switch
from a local to a global social network site? The cultural, social,
economic, and motivational factors of Facebook’s
globalization. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(6), 2665-2673.
 Lanaj, K., Johnson, R. E., & Barnes, C. M. (2014). Beginning the
workday yet already depleted? Consequences of late-night
smartphone use and sleep. Organizational Behavior and Human
Decision Processes, 124(1), 11-23.
 Nath, A., & Mukherjee, S. (2015). Impact of Mobile
Phone/Smartphone: A pilot study on positive and negative
effects. International Journal, 3(5), 294-302.