{"id":2029,"date":"2019-07-31T06:01:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T06:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2021-01-20T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:05:21","slug":"put-down-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ambassadors.ucsiuniversity.edu.my\/index.php\/2019\/07\/31\/put-down-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Put Down Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Get off\nyour phones. Put it down, turn it off, hide it under your bed, just get it out\nof your sight. Smartphones have become a crutch that society cannot live\nwithout. Try it, not using your phones for an hour. Research has shown that the\neffects of not using your phone for a long period of time has the same effects\non the brain as withdrawal from drug use. Research done on a group of people,\nwhere they were isolated for 2 weeks and had their phones taken away was\nconducted a few years ago. And after getting their phones back after two weeks without\ntheir phones, they claimed it felt wrong using a phone, like it took away their\nconnection to nature and their surroundings. Smartphones do have their advantages,\nI mean, what\u2019s the comparison between sleep or all the information in the world,\nright at the tap of your screen? A hard choice to make I know, probably a\ncomparison that never crossed your mind as you were scrolling through Instagram\nand Twitter, liking pictures of people that make them seem like they are living\ntheir best life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever\nbeen to a concert? Notice how everyone is there recording the artist with their\nphones but no one is actually looking at them with their own eyes? That is the\ndeath of living in the moment. Pictures like these just make me sad. It has become\nso bad that some artists such as Adele have to tell the crowd to put their phones\ndown and enjoy the moment. Corey Taylor, the lead singer of Slipknot, once took\na persons phone and threw away during a concert as he became frustrated. Phones\nare basically an extension of us at this point. Wherever you go, you are bound\nto see people looking at their phones and no one living in the moment. Beside\nthat, you always see the older generation talking about how all the young kids\nthat are always on their phones. Turns out that the older generation is the one\nthat uses smartphones more. A study showed that people above the age of 35 use\ntheir phones more than people younger than 35 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A comedian\nnamed Bo Burnham, who became famous by making videos through an internet medium,\nYoutube, has grown to despise the fact that he gained recognition through\nYoutube. He says that society now has a performer-audience relationship. Think about\nit, you watching people do their every day activities through a screen like you\nare watching TV, you posting about how hungry you are or what food you ate in\nthe morning. Do people really care about that stuff? Probably not. He also says\nthat due to smartphones and social media, the need to hone a craft has gone.\nBefore smartphones, people got their daily dose of dopamine by actually working\nhard in trying to perfect a craft or learn a new thing such as mastering the\nguitar or fixing a car. Now, all you have to do is post a picture on Instagram\nand hope for more than 50 likes to get your dopamine rush. Bo Burnham wanted to\nhighlight this problem which was why he made a movie titled \u20188th<\/sup>\ngrade\u2019 which showed the problems that the younger generation that was born with\nthis technology are facing every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you\never tried talking to a camera? If you have not, let me tell you that it is\nvery weird. I\u2019ll never understand how vloggers do it, talking to a camera.\nShane Dawson, a popular Youtuber, has stated in a video he was making about\nsociopaths, that he thinks that you need to have a little bit of sociopathic\ntendencies to want to make vlogs, or talk to a camera on a daily basis. These people\nthat put on fake personalities to prove to other people that their lives are\nbetter and glamorous or to get some sense of acceptance are most probably the\nones you see while scrolling through Instagram or Twitter. Shane also states\nmultiple times that if he had a choice, he would not be making videos as a job\nas the burden it has on a person is life changing. And why do these people do\nit? For your satisfaction and entertainment. Who would these people be without\nyou? They would be nothing. The audience is what makes these people famous. You,\nfinding a Jake Paul video to watch on Youtube where he is pranking innocent\npeople who just want to be left alone. Yes, he does that for your\nentertainment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social\nmedia also has affected our generation so badly that people are committing\nsuicide because of it. In a recent case, a girl posted on her Instagram story a\npoll with two choices, D or L. So naturally, people just picked whatever they\nwanted without knowing that she meant D for die and L for live. She jumped off\nthe first floor of a mall the next day. The popular TV series, 13 Reason Why\nalso highlights the effects this has on our generation. The story is about a\ngirl who commits suicide because of all the bullying that happened in her\nschool. Most of which was done through social media. There are also cases of\npeople dying due to lack of food as they starve themselves to try to look like\nthe people they see. This unrealistic body expectations take a huge toll on our\ngeneration as everyone tries their hardest to look like them and when they can\u2019t,\nthey get depressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A new study\nshows that there is a link between the use of social media and negative effects\non health, primarily mental health. The study proves that when a person uses\nsocial media lesser, they feel less depressed and lonely meaning that  decreased social media use can change the\nstate of your mental health. Some of the effects that is has on people is\nloneliness, anxiety, depression, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) and self\nacceptance. It Is definitely easier to feel depressed and lonely when all you\nsee on social media is seemingly perfect people living their seemingly perfect\nlives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it\ncomes to physical health, excessive use of smartphones also has negative\neffects. The most common being text neck which refers to a posture problem in\nthe cervical spine which is caused by a prolonged tilt of the head. When you\nuse your phone, you tend to be so focused on it that you end up holding your\nneck in an abnormal position for long periods of time which can cause back and\nneck pain. The symptoms of text neck are headaches, neck pain, shoulder pain and\nnerve related symptoms such as radiating pain, numbness, tingling and burning\nin either arm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Smartphones\nhave become a necessity in our society as everything we do now encompasses it,\napps, study material, games and keeping in touch with others. Although it has\nits bad sides, the good sides cannot be ignored. But, a proper regimented use\nof the smartphones should be applied. Every once in a while, put down your phones,\nexperience life not looking down at your phone but looking up and taking life\nstraight on and living in the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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