Ever since the first iPhone was released back in 2007, people have changed for the worst. Smartphones have made everything to convenient to the point where it is becoming a big problem. People are not unaware of how smartphones are changing them, but for them the positives out way the negatives.
Many peoples’ days revolve around their smartphone, but did you know that your night might revolve around your smartphone too? In the human body, there is a sleep hormone called “melatonin”, melatonin is what causes people to sleep. The backlighting on smartphones reduces melatonin in the brain, because all the light tricks the brain into thinking that it is still day. According to www.webmd.com, in a study of 1600 adults they found that 56% of them check their phone within an hour before they go to sleep. In conclusion using your phone late at night will only make it more difficult to fall asleep.
Smartphones have only been around a little less than 10 years, and people are hooked, but when is it considered an “addiction”? According to www.webmd.com, in a study of 1600 adults, 44% felt that if they went a week without their phone they would “feel a great deal of anxiety”. Smartphones are starting to create more problems that they solve.
In order to understand smartphone addiction better, a study was conducted with the students at Baylor University, located in Waco, Texas. This study found that the women college students are using their phone for about 10 hours every day, and male college students on average spend a total of eight hours on their phone every day. The Baylor study also found that 60% of the college students feel that they are addicted to their smartphone. James Roberts, a Ph.D. at The Ben H Williams Professor Of Marketing In Baylor’s Hankamer School Of Business, says “Excessive use of cellphones poses a number of possible risks for students”. This study says a lot about how the smartphone has taken over our lives. The concluding note of the study was that cell phones can be “both freeing and enslaving at the same time”. In conclusion smartphones are not saving us from a uninteresting world, but rather enslaving us from the wonderful world around us.
Smartphones were created to fill a gap in our lives, but by doing that they created many more. When the iPhone was released in 2007 everyone was crazy for it, and the idea of a smart-phone was loved, but smartphones have changed people not for the greater good. Many people believe that they could not live without their smartphone, but in reality, we are the problem, the smartphone cannot live without us.
Many peoples’ days revolve around their smartphone, but did you know that your night might revolve around your smartphone too? In the human body, there is a sleep hormone called “melatonin”, melatonin is what causes people to sleep. The backlighting on smartphones reduces melatonin in the brain, because all the light tricks the brain into thinking that it is still day. According to www.webmd.com, in a study of 1600 adults they found that 56% of them check their phone within an hour before they go to sleep. In conclusion using your phone late at night will only make it more difficult to fall asleep.
Smartphones have only been around a little less than 10 years, and people are hooked, but when is it considered an “addiction”? According to www.webmd.com, in a study of 1600 adults, 44% felt that if they went a week without their phone they would “feel a great deal of anxiety”. Smartphones are starting to create more problems that they solve.
In order to understand smartphone addiction better, a study was conducted with the students at Baylor University, located in Waco, Texas. This study found that the women college students are using their phone for about 10 hours every day, and male college students on average spend a total of eight hours on their phone every day. The Baylor study also found that 60% of the college students feel that they are addicted to their smartphone. James Roberts, a Ph.D. at The Ben H Williams Professor Of Marketing In Baylor’s Hankamer School Of Business, says “Excessive use of cellphones poses a number of possible risks for students”. This study says a lot about how the smartphone has taken over our lives. The concluding note of the study was that cell phones can be “both freeing and enslaving at the same time”. In conclusion smartphones are not saving us from a uninteresting world, but rather enslaving us from the wonderful world around us.
Smartphones were created to fill a gap in our lives, but by doing that they created many more. When the iPhone was released in 2007 everyone was crazy for it, and the idea of a smart-phone was loved, but smartphones have changed people not for the greater good. Many people believe that they could not live without their smartphone, but in reality, we are the problem, the smartphone cannot live without us.