This time, technoly is in dominance, we usually called this era as digital era. The development of technology is so fast. Let's focus on commonl technology that we usually use, smartphone. This smartphone is not an expensive stuff now, even a children have it. The coast of this smartphone is about hundret dolar for the cheapest one. It is because the producent have to attract the consumers to buy thier products. The product that usually we found in market are Blackberry OS and Android Os such as Samsung, Oppo, etc , and Apple OS. In this digital era, who do not need a smartphone? Of course, smartphone is like a high tech mechine from our body. Most people feel so proud with thier smartphone, and it will be more proud if that smartphone is in update spesificatoin. Each of smartphone product have aventages and disadventages.
The communication among us is very easy nowadays. Only operate an aplication in smartphone in our hand, we can comunicate with our partners, parents, and everyone around the world. Smartphone is like unseparateable device from our life. We usually use it from morning to night. But, dont you know the negative effects of smartphone? Perhaps we do not know it yet. The question is " Is it harmful for us if we always use our smartphone for times?" Here are some effect that may appear after having a long time in front of smartphone screen. I will divide the negative effects of smartphone into two groups; Physical changes and Psychology changes.
Physical Changes
Computer Vision Syndrome.
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| Computer Vision Syndrome Ilustration |
In medical terminology, the eye problem during computer use called Computer Vision Syndrom / CVS. It has many sign and symptoms because of spend time in front of the screen, not only computer screen but also smarphone screen. The symptoms are like dry eyes. Normally we blink about 16 to 20 times per minute, but when we look at computer or smarphone screen we just blink about 6 to 8 times per minutes. Slowwer than normal blink. Blinking our eye will wet our eye ball, but if we do not blink well, our eye ball will dry.
This effect is known well by us if we spend long time in front of the smartphone. It is qouted from CuriousMob, The Vision Council’s 2005 Digital Eye Strain Report, it said that 37% people spend 9 hours in front of the smartphone at least. 7 from 10 people report hat they have eye tense sign and symptoms such as like dry eye, irritation, readness, and continous headache, fatigue, and even hypermetrophy.
So, how to overcome it? we need to limit our time in front of the smartphone, do not use smartphone in bed time, do not use smartphone in long period of time (if it uses perfectly with PC), and rest our neck.
Hearing Problem
Smartphone is not only bad for the eye, but also for ear. We usually use our smartphone and listen to music, if we listen the music with high volume of speaker in long period of time, it will lead to hearing loss. But, it is much more danger if we fall asleep while we listen a music with earphone or headset plug on. So just need to manage our time during earphone or headset plug on, low the volume and turn off a music while we want to sleep. Do not use earphone or headset all day long. Give a rest of our ear to listen normally.
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| Hearing loss may be caused by high volume from smartphone |
Back Bone Problem
While we look down, about 60 degree to check our smartphone, it is like make our head heavier. Because of that, it made our neck underpressure. It is based on a research from Kenneth Hansraj, M.D., Chief of Spine Surgery in New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine. Back bone support will move from right position while we look down for long time, and it leads to pressure in spinal cord. This condition must be so painful, but we have a solution for this condition. We just need to reposition our posture. We have to be upright position as always, the ears is in line with shoulder, and the chest is lifted.
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| Looking down lead to backbone problem |
Amy Cuddy, PhD, the researcher, said that upright posture will stimulate testosterone production, and that hormone will give us a bost of our self confident, even in bad situation. But we should be consistent, never spend our time to look our smartphone down. If we have to, we just put our smartphone in front of our sight without bend our neck.
Aging Process
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| Aging process is faster |
A skin doctor from Beverly Hills, Stuart H. Kaplan, M. D., claimed that many young patients have a Botox medication to erase the wrinkle that is caused by spending time in front of the smartphone. He said that this things is caused by checking our smartphone in continously, perhaps just check notification or send a chat, it feels like an ordinary life, isn't it? But in period, if we always do that activities, it can be a bad sircumsatances, does not it?
To protect our selves from those bad behavior, we just need to stop spend our time in front of the smartphone, and let our neck relax. Yoga maybe can help us, because yoga can help our neck in relax condition, strenght our shoulder muscles, back, and neck. Beside that, yoga can help circulation in our skin.
Psychology Changes
Lonelyness
let me ask you a question again, what are you doing if you wait someone or in queque standing? Nowadays, people will use thier smartphone. Perhaps we do not realize it, but this habit will make us clumpsy in social life, and continously we may be an antisocial.
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| Lonelyness |
If we usually contact people in online, we may be afraid have a contact with people in real life. So, leave this habit now. Leave our smartphone sometime, and communicate with people around us. Verbal communicaton is like a best way to know each other and socialize with people. Do not try to change verbal comunication with digital conversation.
Addictive
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| Phoen addiction |
Disturb Sleep Pattern.
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| Sleep pattern disturbance |
Let we think again, while we hear a ring from our smartphone as a notification of email or messeges. What will we do? Of course we feel so curious if we do not find the notifications. This pleasure spend bed time at night, whereas rest is very important for our body to restore the energy and organ reparation after we use it all day long. There are many researches that prove the negative effects if we have bad rest at night. It can be decrease in productivity, accident, and low immune system. So, turn off our smartphone while we want to sleep, this is the most simple action, but the benefits are more.
Decrease in Productivity
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| Productivity is decrease |
None abjures the sophisticated of smartphone nowadays to fulfill our communication needs. But, this device lead to addiction, bother the concentration, and seize bed time. Based on the research from MIT Sloan School of Management, it said that Blackberry users have a negative effects in workplace, such as like unreachable death line because of divided-concentration of smartphone users.
Brain Damage
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| Brain damage ilustration |
Brain can receive the negative effects of smartphone; it is because of the radiation. Although this case is still in controversial, but some researchers found that smartphone radiation leads to brain tumor and insomnia. Spending much time in front of the smartphone is really bad, include nausea and headache.
Insomnia
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| Insomnia |
Computer, laptop, tablet, and smartphone tend to have a blue light; this light can bother the sleeping hormone. So, we need to dim the smartphone light screen for insomnia prevention. And it is better if we put our smartphone away from us during bed time,
Relationship Problem
We usually think that smartphone is like a good stuff for better communication, but according to psychology from University of Bedfordshire, Dr. Emma Short, technology can make us hard to manage our line. The more we have a time in social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, the more time we spend without a friend, family, and college. So, we need to limit our time for social media, we have to turn off our smartphone during dinner with our family, gathering with friends, it is also a simple action, but it can keep our relationship with people we love.
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| Relationship problems |
In summary, smartphone is not only have a bad effects, but it has many positive side. We just need to know the negative effects and we should prevent it before it threats our health. For negative effects, those effects are very bad for our life. It can harm our lifes, especially for active smartphone users. And now, we should manage our time for spending time in front of the smartphone.
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