Dangers of Excessive Use of Smartphone Gadgets
Currently, smartphones already become a part of our daily life. Every day a person can use smartphones 5.5 hours per day. smartphones can be a very helpful tool in life and can be a harmful impact for us if used excessively. Here are the harmful effects of excessive smartphone use.
- Harmful for Eyes
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Using smartphones in a long time period can cause damage to eyes. This is also referred to as computer vision syndrome where our eyes will experience a loss due to an increase of difficulty to focus. The same thing happens when we read a compilation in a dark point because the muscles in the eyes forced to work harder.
- Changes in the backbone
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Most people usually does not realize that they are been sitting the wrong way while they focusing on their smartphone, usually they bent their head down while viewing their phone. This position can change the proposition of the backbone which doesn’t really affect the user now but will affect the user at old age.
- Lack of Sleep
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Most of the time we check our smartphone before we go to sleep. This habit is harmful because the smartphone emits radiation that cause headache and makes us exhausted after waking up.
- Cause addiction
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One of the worst case of using a smartphone is it can make addicted. Addiction to smartphone is no different to drugs, it will destroy your body and mind. Not only we cause harm to our self, addiction can be harmful to others too. “The therapy that used to cure smartphone addiction is no different than the therapy that used to cure drugs addiction” – Rutgers University research.
- Cause Brain Damage
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The worst thing that might happen to us if we used smartphone excessively. Electromagnetic wave in our smartphone can destroy nerves in our brain, furthermore excessive use of smartphone emits radiation that can slowly cause headache.
Excessive use of smartphone may cause a lot of harmful impact to our health. There are some ways to reduce these bad impact such as using earphone while calling to reduce the radiation exposure, control the duration of smartphone usage to avoid CVS (computer vision syndrome) and get a plenty time of sleep.
In my opinion using smartphone is not a bad thing, on the other hand Excessive usage is bad. Use smartphone wisely and these harmful effects will not get to you.
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