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

In the past few decades, technology is so much evolved that it is almost impossible to make track of it. Particularly in the smartphone industry, technology has become absolute in just a few months. Now

smartphones

are gadgets and every child believes he should have one and once you have something

then

you will spend

time

with it. In my opinion,

children

should spend less and less

time

on

smartphones

because spending more

time

with them will affect their lifestyle and social upbringing.

First

of all, When

children

are spending more

time

on their

phones

it means they are not interacting with others and do not perform any physical activity like exercise.

This

lack of physical activity will affect their health and that eventually decreases the productivity of their brains because of that they will be less responsive and their minds only communicate in certain directions.

Secondly

,

Children

spending long hours on their

phones

will not have very active social circles or long lists of friends and whatever social life they have will only be through their

smartphones

.

Although

, The main objective of social circles and friends is to interact with each other, and share knowledge and ideas so that they can benefit from each other's experiences but once you are spending more and more

time

on

phones

then

all of the above will have vanished.

On the other hand

, some people

also

argue that spending more

time

on

phones

will be beneficial for

children

in future because it will give them a technological edge over others and they will be more expert in using computers and

smartphones

which can be helpful in their education but all of these are assumption and there is not a single evidence that can support that argument.

For example

, parents never know that child who is spending too much

time

on the phone is using it for educational purposes or is just playing games and chatting with friends and doing other unproductive activities. In conclusion, Nowadays

children

are spending more

time

on

smartphones

but it will not be beneficial for them if all or a major portion of that

time

is going towards unproductive activities and if every single minute spends on

smartphones

is only for productive or educational activities still will affect their health and social life. So in my opinion, parents should divide and monitor the

time

their

children

are spending on

smartphones

.