SMART PHONES ARE AFFECTING

PRODUCTIVITY, COMMUNICATION IN THE

WORKPLACE, SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT, AND

HAVE AN EFFECT IN EDUCATION.

INTRODUCTION.

EFFECTS PRODUCTIVITY,

COMMUNICATION IN THE WORKPLACE.

AFFECTS IN SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT.

EFFECTS ON EDUCATION.

STATISTICS.

RESEARCH DONE ON SMART PHONES.

CONCLUSION.

REFERENCE.

● Smart phones users are always updated with any

news, including to chat with friends. Pleasure that arises

when receiving e-mails, SMS’s, or messages idenfied

will lead to pleasure for the “crankberry” the term the

enthusiast Blackberry, this will lead to addition.

● Disrupt sleep, honestly the sound “Tring” will make you

curious to peek inside, quite a lot of research that

mentions the adverse effects lack of sleep starting from

the reduced work productivity, increase the number of

accidents. Many smart phone users complain of pain

in the forearm that continues into the upper arm, even

to the shoulder and neck pain

In general, the workplace often has lax rule on

phones usage, and people are talking

advantage by finding the latest twitter chatter,

sport scores, or e-mail updates for more

interesting than then meeting they sitting in

employee productivity is an ever evolving

challenges for employers .

MySpace is especially popular with

teenagers, and this in turn has caused

some issues for their primary socializing

and the two worlds of fantasy and reality

have often collided.

The number one negative effect of smart

phones on students has lead to them not

doing their own work, more and more students

are relying on the web to do the work for them

this can range from copying, pasting or even

paying them to write a paper for them.

Smartphone statistics has found men to spend a lot more on their Smart phones than women. While a woman might spend $189, a man will spend$216. The above statistics proves that men are bigger spenders than women. But the men justify their spend thriftiness. They say they need Smart phones for their businesses. Again Smartphone statistics shows that 48% use Smart phones to aid in their business. Among that 48%, only about 23% has their companies paying their bills while the other 25% pay for the usage themselves. The rest of the 52% use Smart phones for their personal use. The average monthly plan falls to about $110. The year 2007 saw around 4.8% people using Smart phones which grew to 9.9% in 2008. There are more men than women using Smart phones. Around 12.2% men as against 7.8% women used Smart phones in 2008. This number of users has grown from 2007. In 2007, statistics show, that only around 3.4% women used Smart phones as opposed to 6.1% men. People in the age group of 25 to 34 years are the ones who use Smart phones the most - a whopping 29%. There are only 4.9% users who are 65 years and above. Smartphone users in the age group 18 to 24 years are only about 10.4%. The second major users of Smart phones are in the age group 35 to 44 years. The older the people, the less they seem to want to use Smart phones. People between the age group of 45 to 54 years see about 18.2% users. And there are only about 13% users in the age group of 55 to 64 years. The sales of Smart phones are increasing every year all around the world. A recent survey shows a 15% increase in Smartphone sales than the previous year. While worldwide Smartphone sales is about 12%. This percentage keeps increasing year by year. In Asia-Pacific, the sales of mobile phones dropped but there was a 2.3% increase in Smart phones. As the Smart phones statistic

Smartphone are a negative affect on

society and it comes with health

problems.

People should minimise the time they

spend on smart phones as it is also

effecting the way we communicate with

each other.

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