A Comprehensive Study of Excessive Mobile Phone Use and Preventive Measures

Abstract

The modem world almost wholly depends on advanced technology. Consequently, our life is fully influenced by modern technology based devices like mobile phones, laptops, tablets, computers and so on. However, we cannot think a single day without the magical device mobile phone. Due to easy usage, people from all classes widely use it for many purposes. Nowadays, it works like all in one. On the one hand, it offers instant call, message, net browsing, email checking, watching videos, connecting social media, online gaming, source of entertainment and many more. We are blessed with this device without any doubt as it puts our modern life forward many steps ahead. On the other hand, people of all age groups are spending most of their time using the mobile phone. Owing to its excessive usage, one may face lots of problems such as depression, chronic pain, distraction, sleepless night and many more which are threatening for people. In this paper, we try to find out how much time people spend on various mobile phone activities such as communication, gaming, social media and net browsing daily. As for spending much time on these activities causes harmful for humans, we also discuss the effect of excessive use of mobile phones deeply with consulting doctors and IT experts and suggest some probable solutions.