Sunday 18 August 2013

Society hooked on smartphones

Modern mobile devices encroaching on relationships, lifestylesHumanity has become obsessed with their mobile devices through the advent of the smartphone era

Society hooked on smartphones

Modern mobile devices encroaching on relationships, lifestyles
Humanity has become obsessed with their mobile devices through the advent of the smartphone era.

One out of every five teenagers is addicted to the use of their devices?. Adults are no exception. Their ratio of smartphone addiction stands? at 9.1 percent. The real problem is that the number of people addicted to this inhumane drug-like automaton is increasing at a rapid rate and is seemingly unstoppable.

“There has been a steady increase in the number of smartphone addictions through ages 20 and up in the last five years”, says the Wall Street Journal. So what’s driving people so fanatic about this gadget in the first place?

According to a study by the National Information Society Agency, over 65 percent of the interviewees replied that the biggest reason that drives them to be? so engrossed in smartphones is mobile messenging services. This especially applies to female smartphone users. According to “The Human Footprint”, a documentary broadcast in the U.K., an average female in the course of her day uses 7,000 words while a male uses only 3,000. What this shows is that it is really hard to resist this captivating feature that enables people to communicate with one another easily.

Society hooked on smartphones

Smartphone culture is prevalent in tech-obsessed Korea, where everyone is glued to their touchscreens.

The second reason that sucks them into ? the swamp of smartphone addiction was mobile games. Forty-four percent of people agreed that ?mobile games definitely played a crucial role in their smartphone life. Especially popular are games using mobile messenger accounts as users just can’t escape the fun.

Mr. Park, a high school student in a private high school, has a lot to offer. “When I came back to Korea after a three-year interim, I was dazzled at what lay ahead of myself. Upon entering the subway in every compartment, in every aisle, were people all intently focused in their sleek silver screens. I was but a naive 14-year-old enthralled in this purported digital era”, he chuckles.

He talks about a dumbfounding event. “Looking over my shoulder, I saw someone browsing through YouTube in HD. It was pretty amazing at the time, coming from a country where it took ages to load a three-minute clip on computer, let alone watch it in HD with your phone”. Mr. Park is from China, a country where fast Internet connection has not yet been established. “I would occasionally hear the eggheads say something along the lines of, ‘We are entering a new realm’, but only after seeing what happened that day could I agree with what they were all fussing about. I was in a state of great alacrity. I was excited about being the next person in line with one of those omnipotent devices”.

However, today he looks back in a different way. “There is no doubt that those forecasts have been wrong”, he says. “We have indeed entered a new realm. But the realm that is allegedly bringing us together is only ostensibly doing so?. The joy of staying online has allured us to allot more of our time online. Our words have been supplanted by text messages. The vigor of the evening family table has long since gone. There is no longer the familiar small talk in subways – a striking similarity in numerous other public conventions. In retrospect, the crowd I glimpsed with startling reverence three years ago had been merely unending pews of dehumanized automations”, he puts it lyrically, “The realm I witness today is a realm of dehumanization, of passivity and indulgence”.

Most parents think their children will grow of age when the “time comes”. Yet, things are getting worse as we overlook the gravity of this situation.

Even though there are many addicted to smartphones, not everybody knows that they are. Some regard themselves as “self-controlled people who would never be slaves to their smartphones”. However, there is a high possibility that they would actually turn out to be addicts upon further examination.

Smartphone addiction is really a serious problem that all? smartphone users share. It can cause a lot of trouble both physically and socially. With regards to health, smartphone addicts may experience numerous types of illnesses associated with smartphones such as “dry eye syndrome”, “forward head posture” and “carpal tunnel syndrome”. “It is not likely that normal people would get those kinds of illnesses but for smartphone addicts, it becomes a whole different story”, said Dr. Lee of Seoul National University. “This phenomenon is also a concern regarding the social lives of people. It might seem that people get in touch with one another more frequently with the aid of smartphones. However, this actually decreases the chance of meeting face-to-face, which is one way to build a true relationship, not like those formed by smartphones”, he adds. This also leads people to become more individualistic. “Using the smartphone all the time wherever they go, smartphone addicts become blunt to the needs of others. You can notice this phenomenon in the subway, where almost everybody is holding their smartphones and are busy moving their thumbs”, says the doctor.

The interviewees all agreed that mankind, has to overcome the encroachment of “modern conveniences” upon our lives. It is crucial to identify the symptoms and set up plans accordingly. However, from a long-term point of view, there is a need for a change in the societal mind-set – one that prioritizes human relationships and self-moderation.

BY Park Chan-Woo, AND Park Joon-Woo

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