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Smartphones: Anxiety And Nomophobia

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Smartphones have become popular all over the world, it allows us to do things like gaining access and information from the web. They are also communication gadgets that provide functionality and usage to people, so they can be seen as tools for social presence and exposure. Nicholas Carr states, "We love our phones for good reasons. It's hard to imagen another product that has provided many useful functions in such a handy form. But while our phones offer convenience and diversion, they also breed anxiety." This claim is acceptable. Smartphones give young people anxiety when they can see their phone but not use it, they are separated from their phone and at times they are confronted with a face to face conversation with another …show more content…

According to Nicholas Carr, "We keep the gadget within reach more or less around the clock, and we use it in countless ways, consulting its apps and checking its messages and heeding its alerts scores of times a day. The smartphone has become a repository of the self, recording and dispensing the words, sounds, and images that define what we think, what we experience and who we are." We use our smartphones on a daily basis that we get used to them being with us at any time and place with us. We even start getting anxious when we get separated from our smartphones, even getting a mini heart attack when you feel like you don’t have your phone with you. Smartphones act like a scrapbook but for social like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as well as Snapchat. It acts like a scrapbook because it puts our life in pictures and memories with friends and relatives for example comments or tags that you've been part of. Yildrim a doctoral student and Ana-Paula Correia an associates professor at Iowa State University created a study. Both Yildrim and Professor Correia interviewed nine undergraduate students on how they feel when being separated from their smartphones. The research identified characteristics of nomophobia, the characteristics are, "can't communicate, lost connectedness, can't access information and it's inconvenient." These characteristics show nomophobia because many people are able to feel insecure when they can't text and also feeling disconnected from their identity

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