People believe the over-use of smartphones are causing many problems in our lives, and it should be regulated. To what extend do you agree or disagree?

The ubiquity of smartphones forever alters

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human interaction as we once

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;

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, the side effects that come with them are captivating sizable media attention.

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conundrums and proposes that

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form of regulation is warranted. Given the situation, it is hardly surprising that numerous media outlets are outcrying wounds inflicted by smartphones. They are sophisticatedly designed

devices

to not simply facilitate our lives but the ones depriving many of our innate abilities. Science research indicates that it is the biggest culprit responsible for our waning attention span,

thus

causing mounting complaints from teachers that they are forced to become “actors or actresses” to capture students’ fleeting attention

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. People

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have been starting to lose empathy as we are now so accustomed to

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online chatting

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of authentic genuine face-to-face interaction. On the

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it contributes to growing productivity as people reduce

time

on travel.

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, on a deeper level, because we don’t have to task ourselves with reading body language and detecting tiny facial muscular movements, we lose

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capability of what

everyone

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of us used to have — an aptitude to emotionally and physically connect with others. Left unchecked, who knows what

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those tiny

devices

would do to us? Regulation,

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, is wholeheartedly welcomed, but the

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question is — by whom? For the starter, governments are not in place to carry out the regulatory duty, as it is up to the citizens to decide what lives they seek to live as long as within the confines of laws. 1 Legislation of any

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would run the risk of greatly violating the freedom of individuals. Moving on to people themselves, with the best intention, it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that we would effectively self-regulate our own digital

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spent on phones due to the irresistibility of online connectivity and the fact that we are the ones responsible for creating

this

dilemma in the

first

place. What about phone makers?

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limits or allowance would be a wise solution

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precisely the entities that cause the trouble. Phone-makers should roll out

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according to age groups, considering the developmental stages of brains. Don’t mistake the measure

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impeding individual freedom as the measure only intends to dutifully remind users of their

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. Children should be seriously alarmed

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how much

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they are permitted to

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the

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, given their limited self-control. Adults,

on the other hand

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sanctioned to set rules for themselves. In the end, it is much easier to create a problem than to solve it as the over-reliance on smart

devices

is now a state

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norm

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and has permeated every crevice of humanity. It has

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and will be continuing to model human

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whether we relish it or not. If we consider it a problem

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the best cure is to pose

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check

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our

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, and it is best done through smartphone makers. May there be a day when companies judge the

successfulness

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of their products not based on how much

time

they can devour from users, but on how much

time

well-spent

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