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The Impact of Mobile Phones/Smartphones To The Society

Smartphones have had a major impact on society across several areas. They have created new opportunities for businesses like app development companies and changed how education is delivered through distance learning. In healthcare, smartphones allow users to track health metrics and manage prescriptions. They also help reduce stress for busy professionals while improving social connections. However, smartphones have also negatively impacted cultural norms and individual behaviors, so their use must be smartly controlled to minimize issues.

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The Impact of Mobile Phones/Smartphones To The Society

Smartphones have had a major impact on society across several areas. They have created new opportunities for businesses like app development companies and changed how education is delivered through distance learning. In healthcare, smartphones allow users to track health metrics and manage prescriptions. They also help reduce stress for busy professionals while improving social connections. However, smartphones have also negatively impacted cultural norms and individual behaviors, so their use must be smartly controlled to minimize issues.

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The Impact of Mobile Phones/Smartphones to the Society

The emergence of communication and computing for mobile consumer devices


is on the evolutionary course to bring interoperability and leverage the services
and functions of every industry. Smartphone was introduced with integrated
services like communication, which includes voice communication, messaging,
personal information management and wireless communication capability.
Smartphones provide a lot of benefits in various forms of their daily work.
1. Impact on Business
- Smartphones create new dimensions for business. It creates a new
domain for app development companies, internet service providers
and other related sectors.
2. Impact on Education
- Smartphones provide a unique way to improve the quality of
education. Internet together with smartphones provide an alternative
channel to deliver education services and distance education.
3. Health Impact
- According to a survey, users use smartphones for online activities.
Today there are several apps to manage prescription, promote
alternative treatment options, provide price comparison, and validate
prescriptions. Several apps are available to track exercise diet and
blood pressure enabling smartphones to play a key role in the health
sector.
4. Psychological impact
- Smartphones are said to reduce stress in a busy work life.
Smartphones provide a means to interact with friends and families as
when they get time for their busy schedules. The smart use of
smartphones increases your brain’s functioning helping to stay active.
5. Social Impact
- With the introduction of smartphones, social life has been drastically
changed and this domain has encountered most of the impact from the
use of smartphones. Smartphones play an important role in the
integration process of people with special needs, elderly age and with
some sort of disabilities.
It is true that the smartphones have a massive impact on society and other
aspects of life. The prominent areas, where impacts of smartphone include
business, education, health and social life and these impacts changed the
cultural norms and individual behaviors in the society. The impacts are both on
positive side and the negative side, and there are ways that can help control and
minimize the negative impact of smartphones use by using smartphones
smartly.

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