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Social, Physical and Health Problems Caused by Smart Phones
Over a billion people around the world have powerful computers in their purses and pockets. However, they do not realize it because they call those devices smart phones. While smart phones have been around for less than a decade, they have transformed and made life easier. Smart phones have made communication faster and easier. They enable people to get important updates and news immediately, including weather updates, events as they occur, important emails and school closings. Users can share photos, audio, videos, and music between friends much easier. Smart phones carry many applications that can be used for business and financial purposes. Despite these benefits, smart phones can cause problems. They can cause physical, social and health problems to users. While people are excited that smart phones are attractive and can replace other gadgets like computers, cameras, and maps, Smartphone addictive can degrade social, cause harm to eyes, and deprive the human brain of basic functions.

Background
Smart phone as a new class of cell phones that provide integrated contain Wi-Fi connectivity, high resolution touch screen display, and capability to accept complicated applications, and Web browsing. Furthermore, modern smart phones have text messaging, e-mail, still and video cameras, Google Map, GPS, MP3 player and video playback and calling

The first cell phones contained basic features like digital phone book, number pad and a hang up/pick up bottom only. But today’s smart phones are completely changed in that they are super thin and are controlled by touch and they are portable. With smart phones, users can take photos, listen to music, watch movies, access internet, and connect to social networking sites, and myriad other features. Category:Background

History of Smart Phones
The era of Smartphone is partitioned into three stages. First stage was meant for business in that, all smartphones in this time had functions and features as per the requirements of corporations. Essential features included Internet, Fax, Camera, Web browsing, and Email and the main phone brands were Simon and Blackberry. The arrival of iPhone in 2007 marked the start of the second stage of Smartphone era. Apple introduced its initial smart phone for general user market. Google responded by unveiling its Android Operating System purposely to capture large share of the user Smartphone market. This new arrival had features like audience/video, chatting, email, and social website integration. The aim of the third stage of Smartphone served as to bridge the gap between general user centric and enterprise centric Smartphone and improving the display technology and display quality.

Uses
The embracing of smart phones has been incredible in major markets worldwide. Sarwar and Soomro (2013) report that about 42 percent of cell phone subscribers in the US use smart phones. With the capability to use mobile services, internet, and connect on-the-go, cello phone customers have taken up real-time social networking  on their Smartphone Media usage in cello phone including downloading and accessing applications, browsing the web have witnessed a great increase.

Hours spent on phones
People are spending more time interacting with their devices than ever before. A study by Nokia showed that people, on average, use to check their smart phones 150 times a day. This may cause a wide range of health problems for the users. The most prevalent problem is the Smartphone addiction in which addicts are always distracted, suffer compromised sleep, become depressed and are more likely to tell a lie concerning their phone use.

Using Smartphone for web search
Smartphone owners use their gadgets as the principle internet access point. Mobile searches is soaring on smart phones and becoming the chief means in which users finding all that they require, whether it is information, digital or physical goods. In fact, mobile internet has overtaken fixed access. The use of smart phones for internet has become an habit. These phones provide high-speed mobile browsing for users to search.

Social Messaging and Communication
Smart phones have made better the way people communicate, particularly young people. One can make and receive calls with smart phones. Texting messaging, tweeting, and Whatsapp, have become way of communicating and part of social life. Phones users report sending, on average, 150 text messages a day. Mobile social networking has become part of today’s life. Texting acts as an avenue for users to remain connected to other people with immediate communication. Social messaging can help promote personal and social relationships, which are essential to the life of user.

Taking Picture
Smart phones have been enabled to capture, store and transmit photos. Many Smartphone users are fond of using these phones to take photographs of their immediate environment and sharing out. In fact, smart phones are replacing digital cameras in taking and uploading photos for sharing with others.

For Doing Business
Smartphone has established new spheres for business. Smartphone feature have made advertising more effective, enabling service provides, mobile application distributor and publisher to generate huge revenue through ads. Furthermore, online marketplaces such as Blackberry application market, and Android Market, enable consumers to download beneficial mobile applications at free cost or reasonable cost.

Health Problems

Overusage of smart phones causes many health problems. These problems can be mental distress, poor posture or phone addiction. Reading small front sized texts on smart phones can interfere with vision. When placed close to an eye, a smart phone causes eye strain, dry eye, blurred vision, and headaches. Reading texts without the use of external light worsens eye vision. Reading and texting on smart phones causes text neck (spinal disorders). Smart phones also numb fingers and cause wrist problems. For people who overuse phones, phone addiction is an increasing issue with addicts displaying signs of social isolation, distraction, and depression. Phone addicts are obsessed with their phones that when the phone runs out of battery, lacks network coverage, or gets lost, they get anxious. Similarly, Smartphone dependency is another problem associated with Smart phone use. Users who do not receive updates or messages are at risk for showing an increase in withdrawal and anxiety symptoms than those without.

Social Problems
Smart phones enable people to connect and share with family and friends, receive news and updates and also for entertainment. However, this comes at a cost. Smart phones have affected how people interact. People are spending more time in digital interaction than in human interaction and this has affected social relationships. Communicating, texting and social networking prevents young people from developing emotionally, behaviorally and socially. Overuse of smart phones causes addiction. They also cause sleeping disturbance because users often tend to access social networks and internet when they are supposed to sleep. People have  have developed the habit of checking their phones for message and e-mails all through the night when they are supposed to relax their brains. This Smartphone addiction is affecting the family and social life, and causing frictions in people’s lives. Furthermore, Smartphone causes workers to bring office work to home sphere. This in turn causes the family and work life to overlap leading to deteriorated work-family balance. Simply put the higher incorporation of the home and work enabled by Smartphone lead to work-employ interference, which is perceived as a possible root cause of stress by bringing negative impact on family and employee social life.

Physically, Smart phone addiction can cause distraction and loss of concentration on tasks which demand physical engagement. Smartphone has taken over functions that the brain is able to conduct perfectly and Smartphone may be regarded as mental elevator  which deprived the brain of useful and basic functions