Advantages Of Smartphones

The Over Usage of Smartphones
Nowadays, almost everyone owns a smartphone. Smartphones are similar to traditional home phones in that they provide a valuable source of communication. In addition, smartphones have become an innovator that allows us to communicate in various forms via regular phone calls, direct messaging, face to face communication, and many other advanced applications. But have these devices gone past helpful and are now an obsession? Researchers at the University of Baylor conducted a study with 164 college students and found that students spent a considerable amount of their time consumed by their smartphones throughout the day. In fact, they spent on average 94.6 minutes texting alone. Additionally, they spent 48.5 minutes

Social media is websites and other online means of communication through a smartphone that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social contacts, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Snapchat. On social media such as Facebook, a person can share links to short articles on current events for all their friends to see. Within the articles can be very inaccurate information and come from unreliable sources; yet students still use these articles’ information for school, because it is easier to obtain than fully researching a topic. Also, Students using social media acquire a bias with the information they read, only seeing the posts their friends have shared, and they have the tendency only to post articles that confirm their beliefs. For example, a person with friends that have Democratic views is more likely to see information on Facebook about the Democratic candidate’s good ideas, and the unfavorable views of the Republican candidate. These biases make it harder for a student to research thoroughly or actively engage in a lecture that is against their bias formed from social

The average student has 27 apps on their phones, each one very different and intriguing. A person can look around a college dining area and see the majority of students with their eyes glued to their phones. Many of these students are actively on an app just to pass the time; playing a game, watching a video on YouTube, or reading articles. A student can get caught up in the apps and games that are available on their phones, and lose track of time. These apps cause students to stay up very late hours, and get little to no sleep. It is more difficult for a student to actively and fully participate when they are sleep deprived; affecting their ability to gather the information present to them, and also impairs their memory. While smartphones may affect student’s mental attributes, it is believed that such devices can provide a wide variety of valuable resources for