Smartphone Addiction

Smartphone Addiction

In Korea, 60 % of people have smart phone or tablet PC.

It increase by  8 times comparing with last year 

that people use smart phones.

As ICT technology become developed,  wireless Internet become enabled. So many people use it regardless of place.

However people use it too much, it create "Smartphone Addiction."

Symptoms of Smartphone Addiction

 

• Spending a lot of time on watching and touching the smartphone
• using smartphone in the bathroom, when you go to bed, or anywhere you go.
• feeling a brief moment of panic when it is misplaced
• feeling uneasyness when battery charge is not full
• Constantly using phone rather than communicate and talk with other directly.

 

Problems of Smartphone Addiction

*Physical

• .   Carpal tunnel syndoms is caused by repetitive motion disorders.
• Asthenopia is common when looking at a screen for a long period of time. It indirectly affects someone through fatigue and headaches.
• Becuase of radio frequency, it  may potentially cause certain types of cancers and health problems. It might be cause brain tumors.

*psychological

It can cause cell-phone dependence symptoms.

User feel greater comfort when able to use the phone,

compulsion to spend more time on the phone than desired,

and emotional attachment to the phone.