Smartphones have been a part of our daily lives, we use these devices in almost all of our day-to-day activities and it has played a major role in developing our technology-based civilization. However, though smartphones can be useful in many ways possible, it does pose a threat to us, health-wise, if we continue to expose ourselves to these device simultaneously. With that in mind, Here are five possible health risks that you may encounter when you don’t lie down with smartphone exposure.
Studies show that too much exposure to smartphone activities might lead to the deterioration of a persons behaviour and thought process, which might lead to some serious amounts of danger. It usually occurs without the knowledge of the one affected by it, so that makes things a lot more scarier. These changes however can also be somewhat in between, for some behavioural changes are as harmless as “Selfie” addiction, though it can somewhat transition into something worst, such as social anxiety and even affecting a person’s social interaction skills on live people. So, before diving in headfirst in the smartphone world, make sure you limit yourself with what you do, to avoid any dangerous changes that might occur unto you. Also know that, theres a reality above the smartphone world.
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One of the more common risks in frequently using smartphones, this type of problem is generally something that every smartphone user might encounter or might have encountered in the past. Eye problems are pretty common to happen, since smartphone’s heat are often transferred to you via eyesight exposure. One way to get yourself into more serious eye-related troubles is to continuously expose yourself with your smartphone for a long period of time, which is obviously a bad idea. The factors in smartphones that affect your eyes are the suddent changes of brightness, graphics and warmness of the screen color, which can cause chronic dry eye
disease or even more severe eye diseases. So, just to be on the safe side, make sure to limit yourself in using your smartphones, try to set-up a schedule for your smartphone activities and limit them or you can even try to minimise your smartphone exposure, by getting yourself into a more physical world activities.
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This problem will primarily be the outcome of continuous exposure to smartphones. Smartphone addiction has become a pretty common thing nowadays, since everyone has used or owned a smartphone, at least once in their life. Smartphones are harmless devices, but if you take things to far, as to go to the extremes, use them, or simply frequently use them a lot of time in a single day, for no particular reason, then you’re confirmed to be an addict. Smartphone addicts often strips themselves from reality and enjoy their smartphone world to the fullest. Nomophobia, or no-more-mobile phones-phobia is something that smartphone addicts might have. Its the fear of not having any smartphone activities throughout the day. People nowadays couldn’t survive a day, without the use of their smartphones, though this is something, from our perspective is reasonable, since smartphones do provide excellent utility in our day-to-day activities, and smartphones simply serve as an updating mechanism or communication mechanism, to make these activities a little bit less troublesome. Though, some who doesn’t exactly have anything important in mind, might still fling their phones a few times in a day, despite not having anything to do with the phone. Smartphone addiction is normal, and truth be told, the majority of the citizens in our country are smartphone addicts, but as smartphone addicts, we should learn to discipline ourselves, so that we might not get too much addicted to our utility device.
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Smartphones are being used by teenagers and adults alike, teens and adults are frequently exposed to stressful situations, whether work-related or school-related, so smartphones are a quick getaway to the stresses of reality. though, truth be told, this activities that we do on our smartphone isn’t exactly helping as a lot, but rather worsening the stress and might give as exhaustive problems. A study shows that using your smartphone as a stress relieving device, doesn’t necessarily work, since smartphone activities exhausts not only your eyes and body, but also your mind, so prolonged usage of smartphone, for the sheer purpose of gaming, web browsing and whatnot, may lead to more serious physical diseases, which could even lead to death. Bottomline, frequently exposing ourselves with smartphones, can be as harmful as frequent exposure to heavy stress, so we should always be prepared to get an alternative stress-relieving device, or better yet, give yourself a break for once in a while, relax and sleep, so it’ll relieve you of stress from work and school and stress from your smartphone.
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Technically, smartphone problems can came not only on the device itself, but from yourself as well. Your posture when using your smartphone can also be somewhat of a factor, in delivering other physical problems, such was neck cramps and arm or joint problems. Prolonged use of smartphone in radical positions might get you into some chiropractor-concern problems. Your arms may ache, your neck may be bent in odd positions and might be stuck their for a while, these ailments might be felt when your using your smartphone in an odd position. One way to get yourself out of this particular scenario is to use your smartphone in a standardised manner, such as sitting a comfortable chair and viewing length is a bit far from the screen, it might not be as comfortable as using your phone while laying around, but it’ll actually save you the trouble of getting a chiropractor.
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This has got to be the most annoying thing to experience. Picture this, you have an upcoming major exam for tomorrow, you need to prepare for this exam, because if you fail, you might have no other chance to recover some good grades, then this happens. A friend linked you an upcoming free download link to an awesome game. You figured it wouldn’t hurt anyone if you try it out for a while, so you played the linked game. A few moments later, you finished playing, you checked the clock for the time, its school time. You took the test and bam. You failed. Smartphones can be the ultimate source of distraction, because it pretty much has all of your activities within it, if certain activities have been updated or certain friends chatted with you over your phone, then that my friend is smartphones way of saying “you ain’t doing anything else”. So try to make sure to not use your smartphones, while doing something important, such as a project for school, homework and even work projects for the adults. It might be a bit tempting at first, but try to hold it. You’ll surely be glad you did.
Smartphones are the ultimate utility device of this generation, though at times in can be somewhat a burden to this generation. Just make sure you do things right and not overdo a important things.
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