The Negative Effects Of Smartphones

Take a look around. How many people have their head buried into a smart phone, whether they are engaging with others, playing games, or simply, streaming the internet. About four billion of the people in the world have cellular phones. Although smartphones prove incredibly useful when it comes to connecting with others and providing engagement, the cons of using these daily devices override the pros by a landslide. There are so many negative effects of using smartphones, including serious injuries and losing social connection with the world around you. Many people will claim that the smartphone is the very source of their creativity and ingenuity, but this is not the case. In order for creativity to manifest, one has to be completely bored and undistracted from all things, allowing the brain to wonder. However, in this generation, when most people begin …show more content…
Some people even get headaches when they look at their phone for too long. Now, our brains are fantastic organs. They can process a huge amount of information, handle a ridiculous amount of stress, and process and solve problems that no other species could not handle in the slightest, but when your fantastic, wonderful brain starts to ache because it’s looking at a small screen for too long, that should be a hint that smartphones are becoming an issue. With your brain being one of the most vital organs in our bodies, protecting our brain is very important. Not only from being physically hit, but from hurting them in other ways as well, which is what you do every time you look at your smartphone. The neck supports the brain and carries important information to and from the brain, such as the spinal cord, and looking at a smartphone and being addicted to being on a smartphone can damage and hurt your neck, which goes back to text-neck . This, in the long run, can hurt your brain