BINGE-WATCHING television shows—viewing episodes back-to-back for hours on end—may be America’s new favorite pastime, but it’s brought me to some pretty dark places. At 3 a.m., bleary-eyed and faced with the choice of watching another episode or going to bed so I could be ready for work and family the next day, I’ve often found […]
Month: October 2016
Watch out: Mobile phones can be addictive
The average college student uses a smartphone for about nine hours each day. That’s longer than many of those students spend sleeping. In fact, such extended cell phone use shows that the technology could become an addiction, according to a new study. An addiction is a type of uncontrolled and unhealthy habit. It’s well known […]
Disadvantages for Mobile Phones
Constant InterruptionSince you’re always connected when you have your mobile phone, it becomes harder to ignore interruptions. People are always on their phones receiving calls, checking out their friends on Facebook, chatting on WhatsApp, checking emails and listening to music. It has become virtually impossible to avoid unneeded interruption. If you’re unable to control yourself, […]
Against Essay – Mobile Phones This is a featured page
Mobile Phones Mobile phones have become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Mobile phones play an important role in our daily lives. But why are they so popular? Almost everyone owns a mobile phone nowadays as they think that it is an essential tool. People without a mobile phone are thought of as eccentric. […]
Mobile Phone We’re Addicted
My father has once said that eventually, at some point in the future, technology will possess the tendency to overthrow and rule the world. The percentage of truth in this statement can’t be determined overnight however it is proven that we have all become addicted to cell phones. Cell phones have, without doubt, created a […]
Apple adds SIM-free iPhone 7
Internet Addiction Real Thing
Marc Potenza, a psychiatrist at Yale and the director of the school’s Program for Research on Impulsivity and Impulse Control Disorders, has been treating addiction for more than two decades. Early in his career, he, like most others studying addiction at the time, focussed on substance-abuse problems—cocaine and heroin addicts, alcoholics, and the like. Soon, […]
Smart mobile phone Addiction
While a smartphone, tablet, or computer can be a hugely productive tool, compulsive use of these devices can interfere with your daily life, work, and relationships. When you spend more time on social media or playing games than you do interacting with real people, or you can’t stop yourself from repeatedly checking texts, emails, news […]
Smartphone or Mobile phone safety
Introduction Around 93% of adults in the UK own or use a mobile phone, and they’re an essential part of many people’s lives. There have been concerns that the radio waves they produce and receive might be unsafe. These radio waves are a type of low-energy, non-ionising electromagnetic radiation – a class of radiation that also includes visible […]
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