What you might not know about mobile phones

Introduction

The scope of technological advancement in our world today is such that it has pervaded every facet of our daily life, we have become so much attached to these technological devices that we can hardly go a day without them. Our whole life today revolves around technology, the food we eat, the work we do, our exercises, our mode of making payments, and so on. Use yourself as a case study, from the moment you wake until when you retire to bed at night; do you escape the usage of any technology device?

However, of all the technologies available today, mobile phones are the most used in the world.

Rate of Usage

According to research, the most widely used technology device in the world is the mobile phone- Oh sorry, smartphone. As Generation Z would prefer to call it. Its adoption globally currently smartphone closely followed by Laptops.

Based on the results from Statista, as of February 2021, the current number of active mobile phone users in the world exceeds 3.80Billion. This implies that about 48.50% of the total world population have a smartphone- at least once. This result when compared to the 2.50Billion users as of 2016 reveals an exponential increase in the adoption of the usage of mobile phones.

In reality, that approximates about 1.3Billion increase in the number of users within a period of just five years. Yes! Five years. Are you trying to figure out what the statistics would look like in the next five years? Please do not, because your head might explode in the process of doing the maths. That is to show how aggressive the adoption has been in the last five years and how it would likely be in the next five years.

Benefits of the smartphones

Either you are a casual, professional, or expert user of the mobile phone, there is more than a thousand benefit you can enjoy from using a smartphone. A few of the important ones are listed below.

Communication

Gone are the days when people travel a long distance to pass across the information. Today, right in the comfort of your room, naked or fully clothed, sick or healthy, you can easily communicate with anybody anywhere around the world and have your message delivered within seconds, minutes or hour- depending on the strength of the network connectivity in your area.

Mobile phones have made all four forms of communication- verbal, nonverbal, visual, and written, easy. There are various ways and methods communication has been made easier, faster, and more convenient. Thanks to video/audio calls, instant messaging apps, text messaging, and so on. No rational human being would have this option of communication easily accessible and available and still opt for the primitive way of communication. Thanks to mobile phones.

####Entertainment
With a mobile phone today, man has never been availed the opportunity of enjoying maximum entertainment. Either alone or in a group, entertainment has been made easier. As long as you have a functioning mobile phone, you will hardly get bored. You can spend hours surfing the internet, reading tweets, watching movies online, and so on.

Also, there are various games you can download and play, lots of articles, and so on. Fashion and self-expression, access to information, learning opportunities, remote working, online banking, organization, and a host of other advantages are the benefits of using the mobile phone.

Education

That we can even learn from renowned scholars, anywhere on the globe without stepping out of our homes caps all other benefits of the smartphone. It has aided learning and researches such that having a mobile phone has now become like having the whole of a library on your hand anywhere you go.

Prevention of crimes

The use of the mobile phone has helped in reducing the crime rate in the world and this country at large. There is a CCTV camera in every store and any sane human would think it twice before stealing. In case of a crime scene, the smartphone can be used to record.

Risk of using the mobile phone

There is no negativity in the fact that the advent of mobile phones has come with some risks. Moreover, most of these risks are health-related. Mobile phones carry many germs due to their exposure to the atmosphere most of the time; accidents are liable to happen should a user get distracted while operating it on the highway.

Brightness from the screen can cause eye irritants, cancer effects because of the vibrations that while ringing. Hearing impairment, increase in cybercrimes, heart problems, and so on are associated risks with using mobile phones. It is saddening that the height of these risks is Nomophobia, that is, the fear of being out of mobile phone contact.

How these risks can be minimized

The risks associated with the use of mobile phones can be minimized in two forms. Individually and by the government. Individually, we can reduce it by adhering strictly to some health rules and being security conscious setting distinct passcodes on our device. On the part of the government, they can set rules that would see to the control of these risks.

Effect of not using the mobile phone

There is no gainsaying that any individual or society that is devoid of the use of the mobile phone in the world today is seen as being backward. Without mobile phones today, our lives would be incomplete; we would be incapacitated and feel handicapped. Going about our daily lives would become more hectic, depression would set in, and before long, and we may lose our sanity.

Conclusion

In summary, this article has written to enlighten you on the benefits and dangers associated with the mobile phones our life currently depend on. If you want to see how badly that is, keep a phone way from the boy away from his and see his reaction

You have learned how important and how disastrous the mobile phone is. Trust you learned a new thing, let us know in the comment section.