Some children spend hours every day on their smartphones. Why is this the case? Do you think it is a positive or negtive development?

There is a fact that a large number of time

teenagers

will spend on their

smartphones

in their daily life. There are various reasons why

children

are addicted to scrolling on their phones, and I believe there are more drawbacks than benefits. There are many reasons why young

teenagers

indulge in the world of

smartphones

.

Firstly

,

smartphones

enable them to log in to those platforms to communicate and interact with their friends when they might

don’t

have a permit to go out for fun. Applications like Instagram, Snapchat and Telegram allowed young

children

to stay updated with their peers and share every moment of their own lives easier.

Secondly

, the content available on

smartphones

is intentionally designed to be attracting and addicting for those people who

don’t

have too much self-control, especially

teenagers

. Self-discipline is a kind of ability

children

usually

don’t

have because they

don’t

have a long time of training. If they are attracted, it is hard to stop. In my opinion,

this

phenomenon will have a lot of negative effects on

children

. A young person who stays in the same place and focuses on a small screen all day may cause unhealthy results

such

as myopia and spine disease. Meanwhile, students’ performance in school in their subject can

also

be affected if valuable study time were taken by social media and mobile games. Having

such

an unhealthy body and bad grades will damage a child’s future development. In conclusion,

teenagers

, who need friends and can’t have self-control, may be addicted to

smartphones

, and it will have a negative effect on their future prospects.