What Are The Problems Of Cell Phone Addiction

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In today’s society, everybody who’s anybody carries a cell phone around wherever they go. Some people are so attached to their phones, they not only need it for calls and messaging, they need it for social media, information, and even company. These feelings that we need to have our phones in our possession at all times is causing problems for up and coming generations. One of the problems that we face as a population today is cell phone addiction. Cell phone addiction needs to be fixed, to create a healthier, livelier society in the future. First of all, a person must be able to tell if they are addicted to their cell phone or not. This problem is most often caused by the anxiety that builds when someone is not in possession of their cellular …show more content…

Some people, including myself, will leave their phone right next to them on a table or even keep it on the bed with them. For a better sleep, keeping the phone plugged in across the room will help an addict to not use it right before bed and lose sleep over it. One of the best things to do in order to find a solution to a cell phone addiction is going on a phone vacation or “diet”. This means going completely off the grid and not using the phone at all for as long as the addict feels necessary. One example is Jake Knapp, who wrote an article called “How I Turned My iPhone Into A Simple, Distraction-Free Device,” in Lifehacker. In the article he describes his experience with taking a phone vacation, and claims that it is now a part of his lifestyle to take these breaks for a …show more content…

These steps to not forbid the use of cell phones; they are only to limit them. Even if that is the case, these steps can still be taken, just using the phone on sound mode so that the addict can hear when an important call or text comes in. Others might also add that they use the alarm on their phone so they will need it next to them when they sleep. This is also not necessarily true because there are alarm clocks that will not only have alarms on them, but have a more flexible volume control than a cell phone. Another

sizable argument would be that cell phone addiction is not real, and it is just the new age way of communication. This is also a false assumption because phones have been around for decades, and face to face communication has never, and will never die out. It is essential to human health to have personal interactions with other humans, and cell phones cripple the ability to experience and connect with other

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