What if someone told you that you must spend a day without a cell phone / mobile phone? Terrifying right!! Even imagining it is hard, as cell phones have become a part of our lives. Cell phones are excellent means of communication. We can talk with people who are distant from us through cell phones by text message or voice message or video call. The Internet adds another advantage to mobile phones. Thus, we can know any kind of information with one touch on the mobile phone. Even education is achieved through mobile in the covid period. There are tremendous advantages to list out. But there are also many drawbacks. Yup. If we invented something, there will be negative consequences also. As mobile phones have become a part of our life, they have a huge impact on us. Thus, the drawbacks of mobile phones are pulling us into a deep pit. We need to recognize the drawbacks to get out of that pit. Let’s see the Top 10 Drawbacks of Cell Phones:
1. Distraction
When you want to focus on your studies or your work, you hear a notification sound from your mobile. That’s it. You take your phone to see what it is and then immerse yourself in it. After some time only you realize that it distracted you from your goal. Whatever your age, if you started to play games, you would get addicted to them and play them daily. This makes you spend your time unnecessarily instead of doing your work. Thus, mobile phones are a major distraction.
2. Health Problems
We keep on staring at mobile phones, right? Due to the release of electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones, various health problems like brain cancer, skin cancer, cardiac problems, DNA damage, and many more! Staring at the screen of mobile phones at night leads to sleeplessness and the blue light which is emitted from it causes various eye problems. Using headphones while seeing a movie or hearing songs has a serious effect on our ears. As hearing sounds louder than our ear can hear, damage our ears.
3. Privacy Is Affected
You may think every piece of data in your mobile phone is safe. But you’re wrong! While downloading any app, you might have seen “accept all terms and conditions”, you don’t even worry to read it. Just straight away you click ‘accept’. Those terms include using your contact and personal information for their promotion. Your location is being tracked by GPS and many other apps. You can also be tracked by using free Wi-Fi. Most of us don’t use malware protection on our mobiles, thus it is easy for hackers to invade our privacy.
4. Pornography
Mobile phones are used by everyone. Even small children use it. You may be very careful while giving your children a mobile phone, what they are watching. But adult content pops up in websites or ads out of nowhere. You can’t control it. Even though there are many restrictions by the government, still some are left. Those are the major threat to children. After seeing them, without having general knowledge about them, they get addicted to them and start to see them daily. Seeing those daily affects their mind and behavior.
5. Mental Health Effects
When we keep on using our mobile phones all the time, it affects our mental health. Using mobile phones by sitting in one place for a long time can cause stress. Physical activity is necessary to reduce some stress-reducing factors. Mobile phone addiction causes depression, anxiety, memory loss, impulsive disorder, can’t be able to focus, behavior changes, etc. Using too much time on mobile also affects our brains.
6. Negative Impact On Personal Contact
Mobile phones are known to be praised for being helpful in long-distance communication. But the bitter truth is, it is making us disconnected from our nearby relations. Yes, it’s true. Remember and tell in your home full of people whom you talk to the most? No, you don’t talk to anyone. You are always on your phone chatting with someone who is not around you. Thus, most of us don’t know how to talk to people in real life. Mobile phones destroyed face-to-face conversations.
7. It Cost You So Much
In this digital era, mobile phones are inevitable. Everyone has one. Mobile phones are costly. Whatever company they are. In some apps, you need to pay money for different services. Also, many gambling apps will make you penniless. You might have started to just ‘try it’ but ended up in a never-ending money pit.
8. Addiction And Waste Of Time
After we wake up, we search for our phone, right? Yes! That much we are addicted to mobile phones. Everyone is constantly checking their mobile phone. This obsession made them disconnected from the world and can develop a compulsive disorder. Also, many people are spending their precious time on mobile phones playing games or watching videos, etc.
9. Spam And Cyber Crimes
Have you ever had an unnecessary sales call? You have, right?! Because everyone had. You might have wondered how they got my number. Technology made anything possible. Cybercrimes are also increasing. It’s easy for hackers to insert malware into a mobile phone and infect it with a virus. Then they will take all your account details. Mobile phones are very helpful for people who want to target vulnerable people to steal money.
10. Not Being Present
Seen the amazing scenery? What will you do first? Take a picture, right? As we are engrossed in mobile phones, we want to keep everything in your mobile’s memory rather than yours. We stopped living in the moment. At home or on roads or anywhere, people’s heads are down doing something on their mobile phones. We started to obsess over our mobiles, instead of living in the present, we are only escaping reality through mobile phones.
