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

The 21st century is known as a digital era, which is referred that most people, especially the young generation have started utilizing mobile

phones

in terms of many purposes, starting from educational ones and ending

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spending leisure time on them.

Consequently

,

this

trend led to an addiction to

phones

and I find it to be generally a negative effect. In conventional times, adolescents could spend their free time

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reading books, listening to music on the radio or playing games outside, but the “all-in-one” device provides all of these activities in one smartphone now.

As a result

, children lead a sedentary lifestyle

instead

of doing physical activities which might have some negative impacts on their health. To illustrate my point, I had a project with a related topic and I conducted a survey among 50 students at my university. The result of the findings showed that 74% of students devote their time to

phones

for about 6 hours and only 26% of them attend some physical training courses. Another negative feature of

this

trend is the addiction to these technologies. The more young people have an incredibly strong desire for smartphones, the more possibilities for a decline in their development. It is assumed that the excessive usage of mobile

phones

could bring a decrease in the child’s brain growth chance.

For example

, despite having a hectic schedule and loads of homework, young pupils could be busy playing online games or watching entertaining videos on their mobiles.

Therefore

, continuing

this

trend may bring bad scores and grades in their academic life. In conclusion, some children’s non-stop usage of mobile

phones

is increasing now which causes addiction and unhealthy sedentary lifestyles to them. I believe that majority of these cases are disadvantageous.