Jurnal Milenia: ANALYSIS OF ONLINE CURRENT ISSUE

SMARTPHONES ADDICTION

Based on assignment given which is about analysis of online current issue, the title is about “We’re addicted to our phones: 84% worldwide say they couldn’t go a single day without their mobile device in their hand”. The article was published by New York Daily News on 16^th August 2012. It storied that the rise of using smartphones and this became more to a trend and then came out bad effects to people and in society.

The main issue that we can portray here is about smartphones which are always brings bad Samarintans to us nowadays. If we do not think smartphones have changed the world, we have not been paying attention. Maybe probably because we were too busy flipping between apps on our smartphone. In my opinion, people are more connected now than they have ever been before thanks to smartphones and the mobile internet, but it is all that connectivity causing us to lose our connection with people around us. Therefore, to me, yes, smartphones are turning us into bad Samarintans.

Smartphones addiction happens around the world

John Paul Dickie in his writing also agrees that smartphones usually present immoral effects rather good ones. In his article, he stated that many strong reasons that teenagers should not to get smartphones early. In addition, smartphones always influence young minds and stimulate them to have a phone without reasonable cause. Smartphones can be used to bully other teenagers through advanced messaging features which are available on smartphones and also apps which can be downloaded. Social networking apps can be added to smartphones functionality and can be used for cyber bullying through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Apart from that, our use of technology has fundamentally changed not just our awareness in public spaces but our sense of duty to others. Engaged with the glowing screens in front of us rather than with the people around us, we often honestly do not notice what is going on. Adding to the problem is the ease with which we can record and send images, which encourages those of us who are paying attention to document emergencies rather than deal with them.

Last not least, smartphones are also making the rise of phubbing around the world. Phubbing can be defined as the act of snubbing someone in a social setting by looking at your phone instead of paying attention. For example, to describe the kind of person who bursts out laughing mid-conversation, making you think you have made a brilliant joke, and then says: "Sorry, I was not laughing at you, I just saw something really funny on Twitter." Or the sort of who think it is appropriate to check their emails in the pub when you only have each other for company. Or the tedious people who live-tweet weddings.