5 Ways our smart phones can be harmful for us

As high as the world is progressing in the technology field, the size of the technological inventions is shrinking. With this aspect that the world population tends to increase tremendously with the passing time, it is good that today technology is available to us in the minimum sizes so that we might not need to sacrifice regarding their adjustment in our congested houses. They are small enough to be held in our hands.

Among all these inventions, one is Smartphone that has become a basic need of every person today.

Smart phone; a wondrous invention of today, how can we live without praising such an amazing gadget. Earlier, they were only used to make phone calls but today's modern cell phone is like a complete package having every application of our use in it. In a way, it has become our pocket manager who not only manages our everyday tasks keeping the record of our daily working but also reminds us our daily schedule of working. From making phone calls to playing games, watching live videos to finding locations on map, what we cannot do with the use of this small device. Even now you are dependent on your smart phones to bring your meals at your homes.

Today's vital need, the smart phone, has proved from its astonishing features that it has become the first priority of every person belonging to any field. Why shouldn't? It has revolutionized our lives immensely. Though this spectacular device has facilitated us a lot, yet we cannot deny negative effects of smartphones on health.

No doubt, smart phones have become momentous for our fast moving lives, yet we must not forget the ways they can be injurious to us as well. There are many disadvantages of smart phones we are not aware of exactly.

Using our phones in our daily routine, we never bother paying attention to this bitter reality that our mobile phone radiation are damaging our health. Here are the 5 ways in which our smart phones can be harmful for us.

1.  Playing games on cell phone
 

People have engaged themselves into video games at the level that now they use to prefer playing them in their free time instead of participating in any amount of physical or healthy activity. Gaming addiction has reached to its peak point as knowing the disadvantages of playing video games on computers on computers, people are sacrificing their million dollar time on them. Knowing devastating cell phone radiation effects on human body, they don't even hesitate paying video games on small cell phone screens.

Playing excessive video games especially on the small screens can have catastrophic impacts on our eyes. Research shows that cell phones affect brain activity. Due to continuous concentration on the small screens, our brains get stressed up expeditiously and hence we are unable to perform any other task properly as we waste all of our energy on playing games.

2.  Sleeping with cell phone under pillow

Mobile phones emit electromagnetic radiations which can be proved damaging to our lives if we place them near our body. Thus sleeping with cell phone under pillow can cause severe damage to our brain as the radiations emitting from Smartphone are detrimental for our brain. Cell phone radiation disrupts sleep

and this is a proof for those who don't want to believe on this actuality that cell phone radiation effects on human body are intensely adverse and damaging.

"Do mobile phones cause brain cancer?" "Can you get cancer from your phone?" Researchers have been pondering on these type of questions to reach the firm conclusions about negative effects of smartphones on the brain. However, the need of the hour is that we resist keeping our phone near us as far as we can. So that we can protect ourselves from mobile phone radiation.

3.   Hanging smart phone in handbags

As described earlier, radiations emitting out of the smart phones can be proved hurtful if placed near our body, most of the people place their smart phones inside their bags hanging them at their shoulders or put their cell phones in their pockets. The mobile phone radiations are thought to be fatal for the body organs. Hence placing your cell phones near your body or carrying it in your shirt's pocket is considered to be dangerous for your health.

     4.  Starring at the cell phone screen for a long time

Cell phones and vision problems are two things that are directly related to one another. Setting your eyes at the small screens of mobile phones for a long time can harm your eye sight badly. Moreover, continuous focus on the screen would cause headache as well. Looking at the your cell phone's screen for an extended period of time causes you to blink less, which deprives your eyes of moisture thus making your eyes look drier and darker.

5.  Getting addicted to cell phones
 

Nomophobia, a kind of phobia happening now a days due to smart phones, is getting addicted to mobile phones this much that you don't even have any idea of anything else. A person suffering from nomophobia feels anxiety due to the fear of not having access to his cell phone.

That's what today most of the youngsters have fallen the victim to. People are ruining their precious hours in useless activities. Teenagers are devoting significant time to social networking on websites, playing games and watching videos that not only spoils their health but also cuts them off from their close relatives. In a way, you try to be more social by using different social websites like facebook; twitter etc but indeed you are disconnecting yourself from your loved ones gradually. Cell phones also have a negative impact on your behaviors; people think you are a type of person who is always busy at his work. Using your phones while sitting in a community will let them feel like you are giving them no importance and would let down your reputation in front of others.