Smartphone as the frenemy.
Most people check the phone 180 times a day or every six minutes. Youngsters send an average of 150 messages a day.
The number of people using smartphones in India and the USA has crossed the millions. The world of smartphones in adolescence has engulfed people all over the world.
Most people check their phone 250 times a day or every six minutes. Youngsters send an average of 150 messages throughout the day. Researchers at the University of Maryland selected ten countries under The World's Unplugged Project. Smartphones were confiscated for 24 hours from some students in these ten countries. As a result, all the students became terribly stressed. One in three find that they are willing to give up their sex life for a mobile phone.
According to a survey conducted in India, 98% of Indians sleep with their mobile phones with them. 57% of Indians can't live a minute without their phone all day. 83% of people keep their phones on hand. India ranks second in the list of countries using smart phones the most. At number one is Brazil. Where people stay glued to smartphones for an average of more than three hours a day.
The Physiological Society conducted research on which moments in life can be the most depressing. The results of this research on 2000 people were as follows. Naturally, in the first place, the death of a loved one or his own death was considered the most depressing thing. A shocking detail came out of this list. The 13th place where people ranked the terrorist attack on the depression list with a score of 5.84, followed by the 5.79 with a score of 5.79 for fear of losing the smartphone! From which psychiatrists came to the conclusion that terrorism and the fear of losing the phone are the same in people's minds! Now think of the horrors of smartphones.
Dr. Lucy Donaldson, chairperson of the Physiological Society's Police Committee, says that 50 years ago today, there was no sign of this type of stress-depression. The term is defined as something like: Fabbing! According to research published in the journal Computer for Some Different Types of Human Behavior, this condition is called fabbing, a combination of two different words, 'phone' and 'snubbing'.
All of these factors have led to a new mental illness called nomophobia. Simply put, it is a type of mental illness in which a person feels embarrassed and restless without a mobile phone. Nomophobia is the world's first disease that has nothing to do with aging. It can happen at any age.
Nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia) has also led to an increase in car accidents in the United States. About 27 percent of older drivers read and send messages while driving. On the other hand, the percentage of young people was 34 percent! As a result, 1.6 million (approximately 1.6 million) accidents are recorded in the American Book every year. A video went viral on WhatsApp. The eye doctor had two cases in which the patient was chatting or watching videos in the dark before going to bed at night. As a result, he became partially blind and in the second case, he lost his eyesight due to insufficient attention by the person.
According to a report by the World Health Organization, the radio frequency of mobiles produces a carcinogen in the human body. So, overuse of mobiles can lead to the formation of a mild tumor in the body, which in turn can lead to cancer. Scientists are currently conducting research on brain cancer caused by mobile phones. An analysis of diseases caused by mobile waves will also come out in the near future.
The point is, despite all this knowledge, why can't we consciously use smartphones? The reason is, Human Psychology. How long can you control when a notification flashes on the screen of a mobile phone or a message arrives on a phone in vibrate mode? Seconds, minutes or hours? Experiment yourself.
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