Analysis Of Nomophobi A Rising Trend In Students

In the book titled “Nomophobia: A Rising Trend In Students” by Patricia Carlisle, she informs the reader about nomophobia, explains how critical and important the problem with nomophobia is, and gives instructions of how to deal with nomophobia. Writer puts an emphasis on the risks nomophobia carries for students. The main message of a book is: Technology should be a servant, not a master. The book is based on a study that had a population of 2,163 people. Among other discoveries, Carlisle found that a full 66% of all adults suffer from “nomophobia.” Moreover, about two in three people (65%), sleep with or next to their smart phones. In addition, one in five people (20%) would rather go without shoes for a week than take a break from their phone. However, according to the author, there are ways to cope with nomophobia. For example, turn off the cell phone and experience either face-to-face conversations or solitude at least once a day. Also, when you sleep at night, put your phone …show more content…
Moreover, we spend at least one hour a day (840 hours a year), dealing with distractions and getting back to task. According to the author, the main cause of distraction is: smartphone. In 2010, 45 million of the U.S. households shared 96 million smartphones. As it is said in the book, Nielsen and the Pew Research Center have found that Americans spend in their smartphone an average of 720 hours a year. That’s the equivalent of 90 eight-hour days per year. Twenty of those days are spent in social networking sites, 38 viewing content on news sites, YouTube, blogs, and so on, and 32 doing e-mail. Author also provides readers with ways to fight with nomophobia, the major one is to cut a day in time zones, so the time you spend on technology is balanced with time for completing tasks and interaction with