Mobile has become one of the greatest achievemt of Technology. Almost everyone has mobile including kids of 12 years upto grandmother of 80 years. Cell phones are an integral part of almost everyone lives. Mobiles are integrated into everyday life with email, photography, playing music and also a form of security for people. Mobile phones have changed global cultures, especially for the younger demographic as contact with friends is instant and easily accessible. Let’s us explore the extreme acceptance and impact that mobile phones have to gain a better understanding of the effects on the world today whether positive or negative.
The Positive side of Mobile:
Mobile phones are one of the most positively viewed inventions in the technological era. It helps to create an informative, connected, culturally innovative, participative, and converging society.Cell phones are nowadays used to send photos of what you are eating via your phone’s camera so you can communicate with a nutrition advisor about that food which is very helpful in a way of health and wellness.
It can be used as a means of safety or emergency. Such as during road accidents, people can immediately call the police or ambulance. New phones using GPS technology allow parents to track the location of a phone and thus, hopefully, their child. And in such cases no one can argue the convenience of being able to reach your child immediately, or a child being able to reach his parent, in the case of a sudden change of plans.
Cellphones create positive changes in the dynamics of the society. This involves contributions such as:
Competence in communications
Accessibility of information
Socialization
Political and social union
Youth and new culture
Mobile phone can be launched as an electronics-based life. For one, it can replaced the watch. Just a glance at mobile screen display is enough what the time is. In addition, a mobile phone incorporates a lot of important and fun applications such as a stopwatch, a camera, a calculator, a calendar, a radio, a TV and many more.
Thrugh mobile you cannot get lost anymore, you can call your family if something goes wrong, you can keep in touch with your friends no matter where you go and so on. Obviously, the last part can be a downside to it, however answering your phone is a personal choice, therefore the fact that you are easy to reach is all in all a positive effect of using a cell phone. Aside from this, by emergency situations especially when a burglar breaks into your home it is easier to grab your cellphone and lock yourself in the closet while you call the police rather than using a typical, wired phone.
Cell phone has even some positive impact on the economy as it a means to bring revenue also. People keeps in touch with their near and dear and can even communicate weth them abroad through long distances and on doing so revenue is increased which are further used
· to create more employment
· Improve the infrastructure
· In the making of Policy
· Better business practices
· Improvements in the public sector
· Contributions to collective welfare of the individuals via social responsibility
As the constructive impact of the cellphones there are destructive ones also like-· Capturing blue films and images
· Capturing porn images and blackmailing young women and children etc
Teenagers are engaged on their mobile phones all the time, no matter on phone calls, using SMS text messages, personalizing the mobile phones with ringtones and pictures etc. and while using their cellphones children especially teens neglect food, parents, relations, kith and kin. Specially while smsing. This drastically affects their personal life. On the other hand there are many health hazards to which teens and children become target. The radio-frequencies damage the tissues and genes of their young body very soon.Psychiatrists and sociologists believe that mobile phone addiction is becoming one of the biggest non-drug addictions in the 21st century. Along with the age drop of the mobile phone users and the ease of prepaid method provide by the system operators, most teenagers now own their own mobile phone and network service.
No one can deny the positive effects of mobile phones. Mobile phones have not only given us the power to talk wirelessly, but also provided us with many highly usable functionalities like taking pictures and videos, listening to music, playing games, accessing the Internet and much more. However, researches say that excessive use of mobile phones may cause serious health problems for anybody. It may appear shocking but an entire generation of teenagers may become senile or have brain cancer due to excessive use of mobile phones and other wireless technologies which emit radio waves while in use. That's the reason it's always advisable to make less use of mobile phones or any such items to run one's life smoothly.
Health problem associated with mobile phone
- People may become addictive to cell phone which may lead to mental health problem. A study measuring the link between cell phones and mental health found that teens who used cell phones the most were more likely to be anxious and depressed.
- Text messaging is increasing used by bullies to torment their victims. Cyberbullying, psychological harassment in text or instant messaging, is more often perpetrated by girls, who initiate inappropriate messages or spread damaging gossip.
- Just like other repetitive strain injuries that can result from computer use and other repetitive tasks, these conditions can result from focusing continually on a small screen and typing on small buttons may lead to Eye strain
- Because of the close proximity to the mouth where germs can be passed from breathing, coughing and sneezing, most cell phones are crawling with bacteria. Additionally, many people use their phone everywhere, even in the bathroom.
- Brain tumors and low sperm counts: While some research investigating the effects of electromagnetic radiation from cell phones in close proximity to the body have found statistical associations, other studies have found no increased risk.
- Some teen cell phone users are likely to be woken at night by incoming text messages or calls, and are therefore more likely to be tired and less able to focus throughout the day due to Lack of sleep
- Teenagers wouldn’t be able to live without a cell phone once they had it. This study also shows that the more friends a teen has, the more likely they are to feel dependent on their phone and let calls or text messages interfere with their daily schedule.
Parents often experience sticker shock when they receive the bill for their child’s cell phone. Special ring tones, text, picture and video messaging, downloadable games, overage minutes and connecting to the Internet can all be very expensive and heavily used by teens and thus increases the daily expense.
Parents can avoid their children from being addicted by the use of mobile phone if they will
1. Talk about its use for safety rather than as a status symbol or way to fit in can be important.
2. Develop a set of rules and responsibilities as a cell phone user.
3. Discuss appropriate circumstances, places and uses for cell phones with your child
4. Establish rules around cell phone use at night. Require your children to turn cell phones off at night and keep them in a common area rather than allowing them to take them into their rooms, where they can talk or text message late into the night.
5. Teach your kids to only answer calls or view text messages from people they know
6. Help your kids save money
Thus mobile phones have both positive and negative impacts on human ambiance. But as a saying goes- good thing highlighted can efface bad ones- lets us look at the advantages more than the demerits aiming greater heights. 
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