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The document discusses the unintended negative consequences that smartphone use can have on health, including disrupting sleep patterns, reducing attention and concentration, and increasing anxiety and depression. Heavy smartphone use is common, with people spending 3-5 hours per day on their phones. Frequent checking of notifications can negatively impact focus and lead to addiction-like behaviors as people seek dopamine releases from social media likes and responses.

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The document discusses the unintended negative consequences that smartphone use can have on health, including disrupting sleep patterns, reducing attention and concentration, and increasing anxiety and depression. Heavy smartphone use is common, with people spending 3-5 hours per day on their phones. Frequent checking of notifications can negatively impact focus and lead to addiction-like behaviors as people seek dopamine releases from social media likes and responses.

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I will discuss the unintended consequences smartphone is having on your health.

I
will show you what’s stressing you out every day and what it’s doing to you.
The Center for Collegiate Mental Health found that the top three diagnoses on
University campuses are anxiety, depression and stress. Numerous studies from the
US, Canada, the UK, you name it, have linked this high smartphone use with these
high levels of anxiety and depression.
But the scary thing is that high smartphone use is almost everyone I know: my
friends, my family, my colleagues; 98% of 18- to 29-year-olds are using
smartphone. We spend on average three to five hours a day there. We don’t even
eat for two hours a day. Anything we do this often is worthy of critical observation.
Anything we spend this much time doing has lasting effects on us.
Because we do not have enough time So let me introduce you to two of the most
common effects.
Number one: Disrupts sleep patterns. For many of us, smartphone is the last thing
we look at before bed and the first thing we look at the moment we wake up. This
reason matter is beacause it stops us from havving any “off time”. We check
Twitter, Whatapp, Facebook. Our lives are “go go go” these days with work, the
commute, emails, to do lists. And this constant stream of information or what I call
“information overload” continues until late into the evening often while we’re still
in bed. Acording to a reaseach eMarketer 2018 found that the average time people
spend on smartphone rise dramaticaly from 36 mins in 2012 to 2 hours 9 mins in
2018. Beside that World Health Organization in 2017 has carried out some health
risk
Number two: Reduce attention, concentration and academic performance.
Research has found that the presence of smartphones around us can cause our
concentration and attention levels to dip, even when people try and avoid the
temptation to check their phones. This happens due to the awareness of a missed
text message and call or an unchecked notification which remains predominant in
the mind of the individual taking away any attention from the task. BEFORE THE
END OF MY PART I WANT TO ASK YOUGUY A QUESTION
How many of you have noticed the notifications at the top of my screen? How
many of you, like me, are bothered that they’re not checked? OK, let me check
them for you.
Okay! Just one small example of what this can do to you. Maybe you simply
cannot focus because your notifications are going off the handle, and you need to
check. That need, eventually becomes addiction. With every like, you get a shot of
that feel-good chemical, dopamine.

You gain more of that social currency. So what do we do to feel good? We check
likes – just one more time. We post – just one more time. We are anxious if we do
not have access. Doesn’t that sound like every drug you have ever heard of?

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