Cell phone Addiction Impacts

Do you feel uncomfortable if you’ve left home forgetting to pick up you phone with you? Does it feel like a part of you is missing? Welcome to cell phone addiction!
Cell phones have a great influence in our lives that having it with you all the time feels like a necessity. Although cell phones are very useful and give us big assistance in our daily lives, overusing them have many disadvantages healthily and socially.

• Some people, especially teenagers, spend too much time on their phones texting, playing games, talking, etc that they forget the main purpose of the phone, and waste their time on necessary stuff.

• At school, cell phones have become a great distraction for students that they cause many trouble, and they’ve been used as means for cheating in the exams, and that is bad for the students’ future.

• Being connected is good but it becomes annoying when too many phone calls interrupt your relaxing time. No one likes a phone call from their bosses in a weekend, or a vacation.

• Using hand-frees sometimes pass on loud sounds to our ears which weakens your ear-drums. Nowadays, it’s become quite easy to download many songs on your cell phone, so keeping the hand-frees in your ears for a long time can really affect the sensitivity of your ears in the long run of life.

• There have been occurrences of cell phone blasts, because of the excessive heating up of its battery. This can be a fatal; yet rare.

• The continuous exposure of signal to and from our cell phone can possibly lead to cancer, it hasn’t been ensured yet, but there is ongoing research concerning this matter. Phone radiation would affect the electrical activity in the brain as well. 

• Phone bills have been a big issue for many of us. Now that our cell phones are being used almost all the time everywhere, we pay monthly bills which increases our expenses. Some of us don’t really need a cell phone, but still they cost themselves.

• Cell phones have millions of bacteria and virus on them and that can be a strong reason of immediate skin problems or allergies. This can result also into other internal infections wherein the microbes creep inside the body through mouth or other openings.

• A cell phone can be helpful while driving and talking in case of urgent matters but it can be a big cause of accidents because it distracts the driver; human brain cannot do multiple things at a time.

• Staring at your phone for a long time, reading texts with small font, can cause eyestrain, dizziness, and dry eyes.

• Some people use the keypad excessively; because of size restrictions the buttons and keypad of the cell phone are not natural for human hands; so excessive typing can be inflammatory to fingers and finger joints.

After all cell phones are one of the best things humanity ever had, but with using it properly, cell phone will be a wonderful tool and their disadvantages wouldn’t be a big concern.