Band 5+: Write about the following topic: The increase in mobile phone use in recent years has transformed the way we live, communicate and do business. Mobile phones can also be the cause of social or medical problems. What forms do these problems take? Do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages of mobile phones? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

No doubt the mobile phones have made our daily lives much easier but the damage it causes to the mental health of people can not be neglected. In this essay, I will discuss the best advantages of mobile usage and will also put a light on the dark side of its over usage. I believe that the advantages of mobile usage are more then its disadvantages about which I will continue explaining further.

There are numerous benefits of mobile phones, but I am only going to discuss about the most important ones. Firstly, the mobile phones have made communication very easier. The video calling feature offered by applications like WhatsApp, Skype keeps us closer to our loved ones. Secondly, the social media has allowed several people to start their own business. Many young people are making huge money through “Digital Marketing” and by becoming “Social medial influencers”. Finally, E commerce has also made our lives much easier. By using applications like Amazon and Marketplace we can order almost anything just by a single click on our phone.

Now let’s discuss about the bad impacts that the over usage of mobiles is causing on the mental health. To begin with, social media applications like Instagram and Facebook where people usually post random posts and stories about their daily lives make people to compare their lifestyles with others especially with the celebrities that they follow. Seeing other people enjoying their lives often make them feel anxious and they start considering their lives boring. Furthermore, the small video platforms like Tik Tok and Instagram lives are very addictive. People without even knowing waste hours and hours just scrolling videos on these apps. This also leads to Dopamine imbalance in them. All these things often lead to mental disorders like social anxiety, depression and loneliness.

To conclude, I want to say that it only depends on the people how they utilize this device. The mobile device itself don not causes these problems but the way people use it does.

Hence, by proper tracking of daily mobile usage it’s bad impacts can be prevented while life can be made much easier by utilizing the benefits it offers.