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 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.
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