In today’s world, some children spend a lot of time on their smartphones as a routine activity. Although usage of smart phone by children and teenagers has caused many positive developments, but it has some negative impacts as well. This essay is going to discuss the main triggers for the usage of smartphones by children and both dimension of its positive development and negative impacts on teenagers.
First of all, available facilities through smartphones such as access to technology advancement, recreational activity, and online platforms are the main reasons for the high usage of smart phone by children. Provision of such facilities through smartphones paved the way for the higher usage of smartphones by the people even though children. There are many critics on higher usage of smart phone by children that it has negative impact on a child health, visibility, mind activity and in extreme cases it can cause depression, stress, and isolation from the society. Moreover, based on recent research conducted by different institutes indicates that higher usage of smartphones by children has badly affect their educational ability and they proposed restricting the smartphone usage in educational areas. Although higher usage of a smartphone has above disadvantage for children, but it has some main positive points as well for instance access to advanced technology, improved learning platforms, and performing recreational activities as an amusement.
To conclude, it would be better to provide the access opportunity of smartphones to children, but it should be in a convenient way.