Excessive Use of Smart Phones Brings Negative Effects to Students
Apple, Samsung, HTC, all these are well known brands for the smart phones. Recently, smart phones are totally shifting the way we think about mobile phone. Mobile phones are not just tools for us to call or texting each other, they have a lot of gestures that facilitate us in our daily life. According to the research done by GO-Gulf.com in 2012, 80% of the world population today owns a mobile phone which is about 5 billion of mobile phones there are in the world, meanwhile 1.08 billion is smart phone. 89% of the users are using their smart phones throughout the day. According to these statistics which clearly imply that smart phones bring huge impacts to our daily life. “I fear the day when technology overlaps with our humanity, the world will only had a generation of idiots” – Albert Einstein. Apparently his worries come true, especially towards students. Smart phones do bring a lot of benefits to the students. Students can use it as note pad to record down important notes or as a reminder for the important events. The high accessibility of the smart phones can also help the students to search for the information when they are facing difficulties in their studies. However, massively adopting in this technology can only cause negative effects towards students’ life. What if students do not use it in good way? What if the students get addicted to the entertainment or the games of the smart phones? What if the students too depend on the smart phone for their studies instead of thinking by themselves? Society, school authorities as well as parents should concern about issues like these and play an important role to prevent students from over-indulging themselves with their smart phones which will influence their health, studies and their social life.
Smart phones do contribute a lot of advantages to the world of technology. Sandy Boyd's BlackBerry had become her passion. Now it has also become a source of pain (Amy Joyce, 2005). However, excessively use of smart
Smart phones do contribute a lot of advantages to the world of technology. Sandy Boyd's BlackBerry had become her passion. Now it has also become a source of pain (Amy Joyce, 2005). However, excessively use of smart