Thursday, August 16, 2012

effect of smartphone on new generation

According to the survey in end of 2011, it is around 80% of the people in the world is using smartphone. As the technology nowadays growth with fantastic rate, the smartphone already became our DNA-Get involved in our life such as in business, home and among friends. But there are some side effect of smartphone which is really occurs in our daily life among this few years. Those influences can categories into three parts: Effect on society, education and workplace. The smartphone is acting a vital role in today’s society.by the reason of development of and social networking site like “Facebook”, “Twitter” and “Google+”, people can connect with one another anytime, anywhere. Unfortunately, this is causing them tend to use smartphone to communicate with friends instead of having a meeting, this will causing the aggravation of friends and family’s relationship. Another scenario is when they gathering with friends, their eyes cannot leave smartphone and head are down. the smartphone will also change the atmosphere of your surrounding because the “head-down” passer. Thirdly, the face expression of people will be reducing because of using smartphone at long time. Secondly, smartphone can deeply effect the education. Today, almost 70% of students own a smartphone. A big amount of them spend more time on playing game then study each day. Some of them using smartphone until midnight and causing them feel sleepy in the class. Hence, the first effect of education on smartphone is reduction of time for study. Student can loss their interest to education also because the smartphone contain multimedia and gaming which is more interesting and easy to understand then textbook. Meanwhile, smartphone can affect the brain developing of younger student. The clicking or jumping to gather small chunks of information will cause them hard to be focus and concentrate on big chunk of information. Last but not lease, smartphone also having effect on workplace. Smartphone in workplace is used to connect with boss, customer and other company at highest efficiency. But a problem will also produce-the stress of working increase since more work are required to be done in shorter time. Meanwhile, the smartphone will reduce the productivity of work. It is because staff using smartphone for other purpose when working time. Thirdly, employees probably lose their interest on work because of addictive of smartphone. In conclusion, smartphones can be considered an useful tool in our life. But Smartphone owner should have a healthy lifestyle in 21 century. We control it, don’t make it control you. (418words)