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A smartphone is a cellphone attached advanced technologies of communication and computing systems. Smartphones provide a lot of advanced technologies such as a touch screen interface, internet access and an operating system capable of running downloaded apps like Facebook, and YouTube and their technologies are developed to enhance the quality of human life. Since a smartphone was initially invented and introduced to people as an innovative electronic product, smartphone technologies have been growing at a rapid rate. They are constantly being developed, altered, and improved upon. While smartphone technologies are changing almost on a daily basis, they are not only affecting an individual in a variety of ways, but also changing people, society, and the world. Even though it is true that the advance of smartphone technologies such as development of various applications and operating systems has been contributing in improving the quality of human life, however, unlike original objectives of the development of smartphones, various functions of smartphones are indeed negatively influencing in human life. Nevertheless, many smartphone development companies around the world constantly make an effort only to evolve new smartphone technologies, ignoring arisen bad issues caused by the technologies that they invented. The areas, where unwelcomed issues that come from smartphone technologies are obvious include social life, education, and health. Advances of smartphone technologies negatively affect to forming the connection among people in society, students’ desirable study habits, and healthy human life. Advances in smartphone technology ought to be limited because they disconnect social relationships between individuals, distract student’s desired academic performances, and bring several harms in human health.
First, smartphone technologies disconnect social relationship between individuals. Numerous creative functions of smartphones lead people to use smartphone in a more frequent basis. For example, all social platform such as Twitter, Facebook have been encouraging people to check their inbox using the phones more often. Various function of a smartphone may lead to the addiction of usage of smartphones. A Korean study of 79 young adults (Lin et al., 2015) demonstrated that smartphone addiction was more strongly associated with use frequency than use duration. Too much engagement on using smartphones lead to lack of interaction among people. The more time people spend using information technologies for virtual interactions, the less time they devote to other social activities and, in particular, to face-to-face social interactions (Olkean, 2009). For examples, if smartphone addicts tend to pay more attention to their phones than the people around them because they are more interested in playing with their smartphones than the people, they will eventually disconnect themselves from the true essence of social interaction.
According to the research performed by Derks (2012), the organizations expect their employees to respond to the emails immediately even after working hours, due to that employee feel compelled to respond to official emails and they will try to continuosly monitor their emails or something related to their job tasks even in the home. Repeating this compulsive routine, they are going to feel pressure and stress other than voluntary commitment to their jobs. Consequently, the relationship among individuals positioned as an employer and employee heads to the disconnection in the society.
Second, Advanced smartphone technologies interrupt students’ academic performances. According to the research performed by Haug (2015), A Smartphone enables students to text, cooperate on social networking sites, check e-mails, play online games, and even watch TV channels. Smartphone addiction was more prevalent in younger adolescents (15–16 years) compared with young adults (19 years and older). The research implies that the younger the human age, the more likely it is to be addicted to the use of mobile phones.
it must be more difficult especially for students than adults to concentrate in class possessing their phones in hands. These capabilities of a smartphone may not be a helper but one of the sources of distraction for them. In addition, it would not be easy for students to make calls during exams to cheat but it may be easy for pupils in a crowded classroom or examination hall to use their Smartphones to access information online to cheat in exams. The misuse of Smartphone could be through the use of text message exchange with other students, find answers on the Internet, using advanced calculator and phone applications, reading notes saved on their phones to help on the test. Also, advances in smartphone technologies make students be lazier to think than they would otherwise be. The study, from researchers at the University of Waterloo and published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggests that smartphone users who are intuitive thinkers — more prone to relying on gut feelings and instincts when making decisions — frequently use their device’s search engine rather than their own brainpower.
Because they are able to easily find any pieces of knowledges on the internet using their smartphones, they would prefer to search knowledge using smartphones rather than thinking by themselves when they need to analyze something with their intuition in class. As a result, they will lose attention for classes, lose the ability to think using their own brain capability, and finally be taken away their motivation on learning.
Third, the development of smartphone technologies brings several dangers on human health.
Most people are unaware of the risks of electromagnetic radiation (EMR). EMR is energy that is given off from energy sources, including power lines, mobile phones, common electrical devices and some types of machinery (Rifai, Hakami, 2014). According to the research conducted by Rifai and Hakami (2014), electrical and magnetic equipment like smartphones cause invisible EMR that constantly attack the human bodies affecting its biofield and EMR may cause serious problems on the human bodies such as DNA damage, brain dysfunction, and insomnia.
Several applications available in smartphones have a feature of accessing users’ health resources such as tracking exercise, diet and blood pressure. The advantage to easily check own health conditions that the special functions of a smartphone bring in daily life is tremendous, users with a click or simple touch of finger can access the health services anytime and anywhere, but along with the advantage it also may bring laziness of management of health. According to a recent article from CNN [26] this benefit of a Smartphone access to health resources can be dangerous if patients start avoiding personal interactions with doctors for mandatory tasks. According to the article, on average, the targeted users use to check their phones 34 times a day, but not necessarily that it was really needed to check emails instead it is habitually checking, which may result, in relying on phone more than doing things themselves.
