Over usage of smartphones causes many problems
people did not have only couple years ago. From finger pain to
insomnia, smartphones are to be blamed.

Do you spend more than seven hours a day
playing with your smartphone? Congratulations (or not), you are addicted!
Phantom Vibration
Is there no new message on your phone but you
could swear that you felt it? You do
not have to worry that you are the only one – but you should worry because it
is a sign of addiction. This phenomenon has earned its very own medical term –
Phantom Vibration.
Similar situation is when we think we heard our
name in a noisy room. Did we really?
Causes of Addiction
The causes of addiction are quite obvious.
Smartphones are not only trendy and cool anymore. They also replaced many other
devices of daily use – electronic or not.
We do not carry a map or GPS, cameras, mp3
players or portable DVD players. Smartphones comprise all of them. We often use
smartphone instead of computers or television.
Furthermore, internet providers and app
developers are continuously making us more and more hooked up. Watching YouTube
videos, playing online games and checking social networks became an inseparable
part of our daily routines.
Effects of Addiction
Smartphone addiction has got health, social and
psychological consequences.
· Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome is a
painful, progressive condition that occurs when the median nerve in the wrist
is compressed.
· Danger of short-sightedness is
increased by constant looking onto the screen, especially at young age.
· Social
disconnection – people think they
are more social than ever before because of their omnipresent smartphones
allowing them to text with their friends. Facebook, Twitter, Viber, WhatsApp,
KakaoTalk… all of them make us feel that we are socially active while we are
just alienating ourselves from the others.
· Digital Dementia is
characterized by memory deficits, attention disorders and emotional flattening
among young people who spend too much time using a gaming device, web
searching, texting, and multimedia on smartphones.
· Insomnia is a sleeping disorder. There are many
causes and smartphones are one. Do you take your smartphone to bed? Do you play
or text even after the lights are off? Those are the reasons causing your
troubled sleeping at night and tiredness during the day.