Question

Write a debate on mobile addiction

Answer 1

1. Lack of concentration

According to report published in the Daily Mail, a new study claims that

Heavy internet and mobile phone users are prone to lack of concentration and forgetthings easily

This also affects their awareness and eventually lead to passive mind

Moreover, this also leads to weak focus and attention

2. Stress

Parents want to give all the facilities to their children at a tender age so as to help them carve a perfect career path. They purchase the most expensive and latest smartphone for their children for this, which in itself is the origin of all the problems apparently.

Students generally have peer pressure to maintain their image. Even if they do not want to buy an expensive mobile phone, they will do it for their friend circle

Children get stressed trying to maintain a proper communication level with parents, teachers and friends on phone

3. Low grades

Of course, use of technology has direct implication on education, be it positive or negative. If a teacher is using technology in the classroom, it will benefit a student. However, if a student chatting for long hours on phone, it will definitely leave a negative impact on him/her

Answer 2

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Do you obsess about how many ‘Likes’ you get? Do you scroll through feeds, ignoring the people around you in order to focus on what’s happening online? Do you find yourself shuffling along like a zombie, eyes on your mobile phone, earbuds blaring away, occasionally grunting out a response to some question you’ve been asked?

A 2016 poll by Common Sense Media found that 50% of US teens said they “feel addicted” to their mobile devices. It’s a problem that has the potential to get worse as technology develops. We’re now all carrying around this little gateway to distraction in our pockets, and the compulsion to constantly check our favourite websites and social networks for updates is rapidly becoming, according to psychologists, an addiction.

Young people are already using their phones more intensively than older generations. In 2016, 85% of young people (aged 16-29) said they connected to the internet on their mobile device, which is significantly higher than the general population (59%).

Developers have admitted that they design social networks to be as addictive as possible, delivering little dopamine hits to keep us hooked. So, is it time for an intervention? Do we need to admit that we have a problem?

Curious to know more about the mobile phone addiction? We’ve put together some facts and figures in the infographic below (click for a bigger version).

What do our readers think? We had a comment sent in from Vicki, who is particularly worried about the impact of smartphones on children. She thinks that parents nowadays are too willing to “spoil” children by buying them the latest phone, when all kids really need is human contact and quality family time. Is she right? What are the risks of children becoming addicted to their phones?

To get a response, we spoke to Dr. Mark Griffiths, Director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University’s Psychology Department. What would he say to Vicki’s point?

Well, first thing to say is that children and adults are no more addicted to their smartphones than alcoholics are addicted to a bottle. What we’re really talking about here is the application that people have on smartphones. Obviously, children now seem to getting smartphones at a younger and younger age. I’m often asked what is an appropriate age to give children smartphones. There is no right answer on this, but I certainly don’t advocate giving smartphones to children under the age of 11 years.

I think when children move to their secondary schools, most children in the class will have a smartphone, and to not give your child a smartphone can ostracise them from the class. The issue about smartphones in terms of excessive use is that sometimes parents do actually pathologise their children’s excessive smartphone use, particularly if they don’t use a smartphone much themselves. For me, the issue is whether their smartphone use interferes with the other important things in their lives?

There are typically four things I ask parents: One, is smartphone use affecting your child’s education and homework? Two, is their smartphone use affecting their physical education? Three. is their smartphone use affecting the chores you expect your children to do around the house? And, finally, does the smartphone use affect their face-to-face interaction with their friends? Typically, most parents, if they’ve answered honestly, will answer that the smartphone doesn’t affect any of those four domains. But if a parent does feel it’s affecting those four domains, then it is the parent’s responsibility to do something about it.

As a parent myself, I know that taking a smartphone off a child can be very difficult sometimes and can lead to negative reactions by the child. But at the end of the day, a parent is there to parent. They’re there to oversee their child’s development into – hopefully – a thriving adult who’s got all the capacities to go on in the world. Using smartphones, unfortunately or fortunately – depending upon your viewpoint – is now a natural thing and, particularly in teenage years, that is what children do. So I think it comes down to everything in moderation and parents absolutely have the right to restrict screen time and in extreme circumstances actually take the smartphones away.

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