Written Speech
Mobile phones has change drastically over the past decades. Advancement in technology
helps in the evolution of cellular phone. It became more complex and has more advance
features which help to connect people around the world. Mobile phones do not just help us
to communicate but it helps us to complete our daily task. With mobile phone, we can have a
live meeting with people from everywhere. It does not stop at there, mobile phones can
monitor our health. This improvement on mobile phones are either bring benefits or negative
impact to us. Nowadays, we can see how mobile phone has impacted teenagers’ social life.
Therefore, I will discuss how mobile phones has impacted teenagers in different aspect.
Firstly, when teenagers are too addicted with mobile phones, it makes them to
become stress. The addiction toward phone make them to be unproductive. They will mostly
spend their time on mobile phones rather that studying or doing something that gives the
benefits. Mobile phones addiction is defined as a habitual drive to continue to use one’s
mobile phones repeatedly despite any negative impact on one’s well-being (Roberts, Yaya,
& Manolis, 2014). When they are too addicted to their phones, it will make them to not study
and will eventually make the left out. This matter causes teenagers to become stress as they
cannot keep up with their study. They will having hard time to go back in track and lose the
motivation to study. From here we can see that, when they prioritise mobile phones more
than their education, they will become stress as they cannot focus on their study anymore.
Too much on phones will lead the students to not complete the task that has been given by
their teachers in school. When the students are asked about the homework, they will give
many types of excuses which are not reasonable. Thus, mobile phones does make the
teenagers to become stress which eventually make them not focus on their studies.
Secondly, mobile phones lead to sleep loss among teenagers. The duration of sleep
for everyone varies. On average, we need 7 to 8 hours of sleep. Once someone does not
get enough sleep, he or she will show the symptom of fatigue such as yawning or inability to
focus. Teenagers tend to have not enough sleep as they as if glued to mobile phones until
late midnight. They text and scrolling on the social media apps as if they do not have to
sleep. Most teenagers are not aware of this matter because, they do not care and rather
enjoy texting with other people through the mobile phones. When this matter become even
worse, they will unable to focus in class as they are too tired. Thus, mobile phones do lead
to sleep deprivation among teenagers.
Thirdly, mobile phones do lead to cyberbullying. This matter is one of the major issue
within teenagers. Cyberbullying is the use of information and communication technology to
harass and harm in a deliberate, repetitive and hostile manner ([Link], 2014). In
the current state of globalisation, the use of social media has become a phenomenon and
platform for teenagers to express their disagreement towards any issues related to their
personal life. This includes the act of mocking others whom they thought could not coop
with. Cyberbullying tends to cause the victim to mentally abuse which causes them to
depression and commit suicide. Messias et al. (2014) surveyed 15,425 US teenagers
regarding risky behaviour. The results found 32.8% of teenagers reported they had been
cyberbullied and out of those teenagers 14.7% had suffered from sadness, which can be a
sign of depression and feeling suicidal. Bonanno and Hymel (2013) emphasised that
cyberbullies as well as victims of cyberbullying can suffer from depression and suicide. Thus,
mobile phones do lead to cyber bullying among teenagers.
In conclusion, mobile phones does lead to stress, sleep deprivation, and cyber
bullying among teenagers. Parents and the community should work together on this matter
as they can help teenagers to use the mobile phones in correct way.
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Bonanno, R., & Hymel, S. (2013). Cyber bullying and internalizing difficulties: Above and
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Messias, E., Kindrick, K., & Castro, J. (2014). School bullying, cyberbullying, or both:
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Roberts, J., Yaya, L., & Manolis, C. (2014). The invisible addiction: Cell-phone activities and
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