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.
"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.
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