People spend almost every single day placing their head in the same position in front of a bright smart phone screen and scrolling for countless hours pass with their fingers. With the recent advancement of smart phone technology, people are enabled to do numerous things with it. Now-a-days, no one needs a dictionary, map, calculator or even camera because smart phones have all those capabilities. In today’s society, we see people using their smart phones while traveling to and from work. Many businesses expect the employees to use smart phones to deal with issues outside the office. Anyhow, people are overly dependent on these “modern technology”. People tend to get more passive in life, claims to feel very “naked” without their devices, and prohibits people from socially interacting with their peers. Ultimately, people are becoming too dependent on modern smart phone technology.
Recent smartphone technology tends to make people get more passive in life. Basically, it means that they become the type of person that just “goes with the flow” or let things go easy, rather than taking action. According to a study published in the International Journal of Nutrition and Physical Activity, frequent smart phone users were far more likely to forego or disrupt physical exercise and scored lower on fitness assessments than peers who used cell phones less frequently. In other words, people who are frequently on their smart phone devices are proven to be less active and more passive. Physically, it has detrimental effects on the human because it causes their body to become less active.
Next, most of the smartphone owners claim to feel “naked” without their smartphone device. According to a survey contended by Arbitron and Edison Research, a whopping 91% of smartphone owners say that their device is within arm’s length either always (60%) or most of the time (31%). And findings from a Time Magazine study observed that 65% of digital natives take