A smartphone is a mobile phone with high tech abilities that enables you do things beyond making calls and sending texts on mobile.
Smartphones are one of the jet age gadgets. They are light weight and have a wide storage capacity. They even have the ability to save important documents and files for an infinite period.
The smartphone is widely used amongst individuals across the globe as they aid swift communication, comprehensive research, storage and others.
The use of this modern day gadget cannot be over rated. Though its benefits override the detriments, it is still of equal necessity that we evaluate and know by heart the positive and negative effects of a smartphone.
Let’s start with the positive effects.
Positive effects of a smartphone
The smartphone came and replaced the early communication patterns. Now, it’s more:
1. Convenient– this means you can send a message wherever you find yourself without bothering
much about lengthy procedures.
2. Efficient– communication is now easier because the smartphone has an immediate feedback feature.
3. Swift– messages can be sent and received in a flash.
4. The smartphone has made it possible to learn new things everyday at little or no cost. It has helped a lot of people in their researches and scholarly activities.
5. It aids business and personal development: most of the things some people know today is as a result of personal development through the use of a smartphone.
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Availability of smart phones has provided job opportunities for many and also created businesses for many like app/web developers, content writers and more.
The smartphone doesn’t just have a central feature but diverse features.
With the smartphone, you can get access to tons of resources for both personal and business rebranding. The smartphone is just like having the world in your hands because you can virtually access most things through it.
The smartphone has incredible features like instant messaging, diverse applications for solving problems like arithmetic, graphics design, location direction, food recipes, shopping and so on.
You can access the whole world just through the use of a smartphone.
Smart phones are even of more importance as it has internet access which enables users to get help with things like dieting, weight loss and gain, news headlines, scholarship updates, job openings, hotel booking/reservation and many more.
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As already established, a thing cannot have just positive effects only, there are some negative effects as well.
Negative effects of a smartphone
They include but are not limited to the following:
1. Increase in cybercrime
Smart phones have contributed to the increased rate of cybercrime across the globe. Since it’s easily accessible, fraudsters use the opportunity to prey on unsuspecting victims.
2. Cause health problems
Too much smart phone use can cause poor eyesight and also insomnia. Electro magnetic radiation comes from smart phones thereby making it harmful to the health.
This electro magnetic radiation can cause brain dysfunctions and sleeping problems.
3. Poor interactions
Excess use of smart phones for social media can cause social anxiety. When one gets addicted to a smartphone, physical interactions become an issue to them thereby leading to social anxiety.
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4. Causes addiction
Another major negative effect is that smart phones are very addictive. This is the most disturbing effect of this multi-functional device.
Most times, the many uses of smart phones can be abused and when it does, it is often difficult to get on the right track.
Many people have become addictive to adult movies, home movies, and games because of smartphone. This can lead to less productivity.
In conclusion, the negative effects of this device can be curbed by regular enlightenment on the proper use of this gadget.
Smart use of this modern day technology (smartphone) can make our dealings easier and better.
Smartphone has a major impact on the society. And it has an impact on almost all walks of life ranging from business, to schools, to technology, to education and so on.
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