Can you imagine what happen if you lost your smartphone? According to the Lookout (as cited in fitzgerald , 2012), "73 percent of people admit they would feel "panicked" while another 14 percent would feel "desperate.""(¶3). It is not surprising that anxiety and misgiving will gnaw you a day. When you turn on your mobile phone every few minutes without aims or check your social mobile applications frequently, you may suffer from smartphone addiction. With smartphone addiction, people need to face a lot of problems including weakened social communication, physical injury. In order to avoid the smartphone taking over our life, three suggestions are given, keeping the smartphone away from your sight, seeking for help and filling up the "tech free time".

The common reasons for people to use smartphone frequently are due to a lot of free time they have. People might think that the best way to fill up the time is using smartphone because we can use smartphone to watch movie, chat with friends, play games, etc. Besides entertaining, we can check email, drop notes. It is obvious that smartphone bring a lot of convenience to us so people are addicted to it easily. As Rosen says (as cited in Corbett, 2012), "Your iPhone can act as a stimulus to your brain, meaning you get a feel-good dopamine rush from checking it, which furthers your technology addiction"(¶6). To restrain our brain in such "tech free time”, we need to find something to do in order to replace the time. The main idea is to prevent you from the attraction of smartphone. For example, joining activities or doing exercise is some of suggestions. If people can find another thing to do in place of using smartphone, this suggestion will be useful. However, this advice cannot be applied in all "tech free time". It is known that one of the "tech free times" is the time spent in the transportation which is the longest free time we have in a day. People have nothing to do except for using smartphone in the train or bus. The attraction of using smartphone must be the largest when people are facing many strangers in a small area. It is the difficult situation that this advice can solve.

The evolution of technology is very fast, especially mobile phone. Nowadays, mobile phone can be regarded as another brain of human. It can remind us a lot of things. It turns on the alarm when there is an unread email, missing call or new message. Moreover, the mobile phone can remind you what you need to do today. Since a lot of alarm from the phone, people always need to check their phone every few minutes. According to Dachis (2010)"It might seem great to have a device that can do just about anything, but becoming reliant on a single device has its own set of problems"(¶13). What we need to prevent is becoming reliant on a smartphone. Take an example; we will not get disturbed by the mobile phone when we are in an important meeting or watching movie. The reason for not being disturbed is due to silence mode in the mobile phone. By this example, one of the solutions to avoid smartphone addiction is switching the mobile phone to silence mode or even turning off the mobile phone. Without alarm, people will lower the chance to check their mobile phone. Although this method is efficient to reduce the frequency of using smartphone, the consequence we need to pay is losing some important calls, messages or emails. Because of it, people should have a deep consideration when they take this advice.

Smartphone addiction has been the common problems in this modern city. When you look around the people beside you, you may find that some symptoms of smartphone addiction appear on your friends. Girlonfire says (2012), “you are not alone in being too attached to your smartphone. More so, you are probably not alone in yearning to get rid of that attachment"(¶15). When people are addicted to smartphone, grouping may be one of the best ways to solve it. It is suggested that friends with smartphone addiction can group together because people are hanging around with friends most of the time. They can remind each other easily whenever one of them is tend to use the mobile phone frequently. The only weakness of this advice is that people might lose their control easily to use smartphone when their friends are not here.

When comparing the above three solutions, I think that the grouping is the most efficient way. It is known that recover from an addiction is not an easy thing. Many of people with addiction can figure out the problems they have. However, many of them are still addicted to something because people are infirm of control themselves away from addiction. When the recovery process involves others people, especially their friends, people might gain more efforts to against the addiction. I am not saying that the other two solutions are not good. What I want to deliver is that individual strength is limited.

In conclusion, it cannot be denied that smartphone brings a lot of convenience to us, no matter in entertainment, work or study. Because of this convenience, people indulge in using smartphone frequently. The original principle of smartphone is helping people to solve problems. However, the situation is changed. What smartphone brings to us is not only convenience but also addiction. Never should we let the smartphone taking over our life. Take an immediate action when you feel you are addicted to the smartphone. No matter you choose grouping, filling up the "tech free time" or canceling the notification, there should be a suitable solution for you.

Can you imagine what happen if you lost your smartphone? According to the Lookout (as cited in fitzgerald , 2012), "73 percent of people admit they would feel "panicked" while another 14 percent would feel "desperate.""(¶3). It is not surprising that anxiety and misgiving will gnaw you a day. When you turn on your mobile phone every few minutes without aims or check your social mobile applications frequently, you may suffer from smartphone addiction. With smartphone addiction, people need to face a lot of problems including weakened social communication, physical injury. In order to avoid the smartphone taking over our life, three suggestions are given, keeping the smartphone away from your sight, seeking for help and filling up the "tech free time".
The common reasons for people to use smartphone frequently are due to a lot of free time they have. People might think that the best way to fill up the time is using smartphone because we can use smartphone to watch movie, chat with friends, play games, etc. Besides entertaining, we can check email, drop notes. It is obvious that smartphone bring a lot of convenience to us so people are addicted to it easily. As Rosen says (as cited in Corbett, 2012), "Your iPhone can act as a stimulus to your brain, meaning you get a feel-good dopamine rush from checking it, which furthers your technology addiction"(¶6). To restrain our brain in such "tech free time”, we need to find something to do in order to replace the time. The main idea is to prevent you from the attraction of smartphone. For example, joining activities or doing exercise is some of suggestions. If people can find another thing to do in place of using smartphone, this suggestion will be useful. However, this advice cannot be applied in all "tech free time". It is known that one of the "tech free times" is the time spent in the transportation which is the longest free time we have in a day. People have nothing to do except for using smartphone in the train or bus. The attraction of using smartphone must be the largest when people are facing many strangers in a small area. It is the difficult situation that this advice can solve.

Technology Addiction

"Tasty", "Sweet", "Delicious", the sounds come from the latest famous mobile game, Candy Crush. Whenever you are on the train or bus, you must hear those sounds from all side. When you want to search the origin of the sound, a special scene will be discovered. Probably all of the people are focusing on their smart device with their head down. This phenomenon is regarded as technology addiction. There are lots of reason that cause the occurrence of such addiction including peer influence, stressful life. Because of the addicted behavior, people are affected not only physically but also mentally.

In this era, people become digital native or digital immigrant. No matter which filed you are, people surrounded you must get a smartphone or tablet. They will communicate with each other by these smart devices or discuss the things related to the smart devices. People would be feel isolated or loneliness if they have not a smart product to join the discussion. Take student as an example. Students, nowadays, love to chat with friends using smartphone application since they can chat with each other every time they want. This is one of the ways that students regarded as enhancing their friendship. If a student does not have a smartphone, the student will lose the chance to chat with others. This is a kind of peer influence that force people to have a smart devices.

Beside peer influence, living with stressful is another reasons that cause technology addiction. Heavy workloads, exams, homework which are the things that we need to  face every day. Entertainments must be the things that people seek for. In fact, the time spend on the transportation must be the longest time in a day, excluding the time spend on work or school. It is toilsome that people need to stand in a bus or train over a long period. If people have nothing to do, people will think embarrassed when they have eye contact with other people. Because of these reasons, having smart device is their best choice to avoid the situations mentioned above.

Technology addiction is a problem that we need to tackle since it brings a lot of bad effects to us, not only physically but also mentally.

Physically, addicting to technology brings us a lot of disadvantage to our body. First of all,  focusing on electronic devices over a long time will cause the eyes losing focus and dehydrated due to the electromagnetic waves. Shortsighted and headache are the problems that easily occurs . Also, as mentioned before, people are always look at their smartphones or tablets with their head down. When this bad posture action repeat again and again, people's neck will have a extent of harm. Pain on the neck and shoulder are the common cases.

On the other hand, mentally, technology addicted leads a lot of bad effects. The first one is uncontrolled behavior. Have you ever seen that people take out their smartphone and the scroll the screen with no meaning? Have you ever tried that you cannot do your computer work because of attracted by the internet? These are the bad effects that technology bring to us. People always want to use their smart devices although they have no aims to use it. Also, people always lose their attention to their works since there are a lot of attractive things on the internet.

In conclusion, It is not surprised that our life is surrounded with smart devices since new technology brings a lot of convenience and entertainment to us. However, never should we only take the benefit into consideration without consider the underlying effects that technology bring to us.     

Technology Addiction

"Tasty", "Sweet", "Delicious", the sounds come from the latest famous mobile game, Candy Crush. Whenever you are on the train or bus, you must hear those sounds from all side. When you want to search the origin of the sound, a special scene will be discovered. Probably all of the people are focusing on their smart device with their head down. This phenomenon is regarded as technology addiction. There are lots of reason that cause the occurrence of such addiction including peer influence, stressful life. Because of the addicted behavior, people are affected not only physically but also mentally.

In this era, people become digital native or digital immigrant. No matter which filed you are, people surrounded you must get a smartphone or tablet. They will communicate with each other by these smart devices or discuss the things related to the smart devices. People would be feel isolated or loneliness if they have not a smart product to join the discussion. Take student as an example. Students, nowadays, love to chat with friends using smartphone application since they can chat with each other every time they want. This is one of the ways that students regarded as enhancing their friendship. If a student does not have a smartphone, the student will lose the chance to chat with others. This is a kind of peer influence that force people to have a smart devices.

Festival Walk, a shopping mall possess a great number of luxury shop. Between those top-name stores, however, an academic name stands out in the middle of the shopping centre which is City University of Hong Kong. There is a escalator to take people to the school. However, if you want reach it , first of all, you need to come up against a stream of people. After you pass through the multitude successfully, you can see the entry of the City University of Hong Kong Which is a long tunnel. The tunnel is not a simple one but designed. You can see a huge monitor showing the news about the school. Moreover, the wall of the tunnel is covered with a lot of pictures. Each of the pictures represent a college and a different group of people can be seen with something related to their college. It is meaningful that student can feel what they would like to be if they join that college.

When you walk through the tunnel, a totally different scene would been seen compared with the Festival Walk, from complex to simple, material to spiritual. When you look from left to right, a sense of symmetry could be felt. A symmetrical pillar, a symmetrical stairs and a symmetrical road with rainproof design. Also, the academic building has been applied symmetry, no matter the windows or the doors.

Beside the design, there is a interesting thing and sound you could see when we walk through the tunnel. Different groups of people dressing special uniform including formal suit and DIY clothing stand in the middle and shout with different slogans. You cannot really hear what they shout about since they are compete with each other. Because of this competition, only noise you can hear when you want to walk into the academic building. When walking through the road, you will not only encounter those noise but also the greeting from different groups of people. All of them will shout near you and gives you some souvenir. It will be a horrible experience if you have tried.

When you pass through those groups of people, another special scene will be seen before you enter the academic building. As mentioned before, there is a road with rainproof design in both side. All people want to enter the academic building must walk through one of the road since the middle is full of people. There are five doors you can choose to enter the building. However, people from the two roads will not choose the middle one so that a interesting view can be seen, a large empty space in the middle door while a congestion happened in the remaining four doors. 

Festival Walk, a shopping mall possess a great number of luxury shop. Between those top-name stores, an academic name stands out in the middle of the shopping centre which is City University of Hong Kong. There is a escalator to take people to the school. However, if you want reach it , first of all, you need to come up against a stream of people. After you pass through the multitude successfully, you can see the entry of the City University of Hong Kong Which is a long tunnel. The tunnel is not a simple one but designed. You can see a huge monitor showing the news about the school. On the other hand, the wall of the tunnel is covered with a lot of pictures. Each of the pictures represent a college and a different group of people can be seen with something related to their college. It is meaningful that student can feel what they would like to be if they join that college.

When you walk through the tunnel, a totally different scene would been seen compared with the Festival Walk, from complex to simple, material to spiritual. 

“THE NEXT BIG THING IS ALREADY HERE”

“THE NEXT BIG THING IS ALREADY HERE”, a slogan used by Samsung which indicated that there is a new product coming out. It is excited that when some new products with new technology are introduced and what I believe is that learning high technology is one of my interests. Unlike geography or history, I am willing to learn anything related to the computer acknowledge in order to understand the new technology or even to learn the developing methods such as programming. This is the reason why I chose computer engineering.

Before studying computer engineering I have not had any acknowledge about computer and programming. However, I think my ability of learning non human language is quite well such as symbol or logic. Especially, logic is very important in programming, every step must be logically related. In programming, there are lots of ways to write a program. However, a good program should be written in a simple way and I am confidence to this aspect. On the other hand, sensitivity to numbers is one of things that I proud of. It is known that engineering requires lots of mathematics so that good at mathematics is a benefit in learning computer engineering.

As time goes by, the frequency of discovering new technology is increasing in a extremely high rate. It is difficult to catch up but I will try it. In my future career, I think I will be the computer engineer in order to develop many useful product. For my actual goals of my life, I would like to imitate Steve Jobs who invented many products that greatly changing our lifestyle. I wish the slogan, “THE NEXT BIG THING IS ALREADY HERE”, would be announced by me in one day.

Festival Walk, a shopping mall possess a great number of luxury shop. Between those top-name stores, however, an academic name stands out in the middle of the shopping centre which is City University of Hong Kong. There is a escalator to take people to the school. However, if you want reach it , first of all, you need to come up against a stream of people. After you pass through the multitude successfully, you can see the entry of the City University of Hong Kong Which is a long tunnel. The tunnel is not a simple one but designed. You can see a huge monitor showing the news about the school. Moreover, the wall of the tunnel is covered with a lot of pictures. Each of the pictures represent a college and a different group of people can be seen with something related to their college. It is meaningful that student can feel what they would like to be if they join that college.

When you walk through the tunnel, a totally different scene would been seen compared with the Festival Walk, from complex to simple, material to spiritual. When you look from left to right, a sense of symmetry could be felt. A symmetrical pillar, a symmetrical stairs and a symmetrical road with rainproof design. Also, the academic building has been applied symmetry, no matter the windows or the doors.

Beside the design, there is a interesting thing and sound you could see when we walk through the tunnel. Different groups of people dressing special uniform including formal suit and DIY clothing stand in the middle and shout with different slogans. You cannot really hear what they shout about since they are compete with each other. Because of this competition, only noise you can hear when you want to walk into the academic building. When walking through the road, you will not only encounter those noise but also the greeting from different groups of people. All of them will shout near you and gives you some souvenir. It will be a horrible experience if you have tried.

When you pass through those groups of people, another special scene will be seen before you enter the academic building. As mentioned before, there is a road with rainproof design in both side. All people want to enter the academic building must walk through one of the road since the middle is full of people. There are five doors you can choose to enter the building. However, people from the two roads will not choose the middle one so that a interesting view can be seen, a large empty space in the middle door while a congestion happened in the remaining four doors.