Mobile Applications: Issue 3: Addiction

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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Watch out: Cell phones can be addictive

Teenagers nowadays are addicted to mobile application as there are many interesting apps to be explored. This had results in dominated teenager’s daily life activity by interrupting their sleep, work and study. Certain people use smartphones to lift their moods. For such people, losing a phone or having its battery die could cause anxiety or panic. To ensure mobile app do not become an addiction, Parents can enforce a house rule that allows access cell phone only during certain times of the day. (Family Bootcamp, 2016)

Reference: Family Bootcamp. (2016). Teen Cell Phone Addiction. [online] Available at: http://familybootcamp.org/cell-phone-addiction/ [Accessed 22 Jun. 2016].

App makers: It’s time to stop exploiting user addiction and get ethical

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In today world of new technology advancement, mobile device users increase dramatically. Developers build mobile app and create users addiction intentionally in order to create more profit. This had raise the number of “Mobile Addict “as certain apps especially social apps give us hits of dopamine. Excessive used of these app will exhibit brain damage and cause users to mental, physical, and social harm. Developers should be ethical and protect user’s mental health and well-being by notifying users who uses app excessively with usage report to create self-awareness. Additionally, they can include self-regulation tools which limit user’s time in accessing mobile applications.

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By: Loo Su Fia

Smartphone Addiction: Managing your phone usage time

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Smartphone addiction is a serious issue since the wide use of mobile application. According to study, 70% of people will check their phone within the moment they wake up everyday. This is a bad habit as it leads to lack of communication with family and friends when users just focus on checking their phone every 15 minutes even in the workplace. There are 3 ways to learn how to manage your smartphone such as be conscious of what feelings that make you want to check your phone and try to find other way to divide your attention, be strong when the phone rings, try to avoid this temptation by putting silent and be disciplined .

10 ingredients that concoct a subconsciously addictive mobile app

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Nowadays, people are addicted to different categories of mobile apps. One of the reasons why people will addict to mobile apps is because of “KISS”, the simplicity rules that stand for “Keep it simple, stupid”. When it comes to designing mobile apps, the app inventors have to keep their apps simple so that people will get used to it easily and become addicted. For example is the popular dating app, Tinder. All users only need to swipe left and right according to their interest in the date offered to them by the apps. Besides, mobile apps that are convenient for users will also be addicted too. This is because users can do multitasking at the same time when they are using the mobile apps. For example like playing games with one hand while doing something else.

Mobile Addiction

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Most of the people are addicted to mobile nowadays. Fingers are hardly remove from scrolling mobile apps, emails and social media. Fortunately, there are few ways to help minimise the usage of mobile. The article from the given link below introduced 6 apps , which are Offtime, Moment, BreakFree, Flipd, AppDetox and Stay On Task (Goldman,2015). these app has common feature like blocking user from using social media applications with time limit. Once time limit is set, users would not be able to use their phone. It helps users to be more focus on task and avoid distraction from phone and tablets.

Monday, 20 June 2016

How to prevent your teen from misusing their cell phone?

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Parents allow their teenager to use cell phone so they can reach them at any time but teenagers often make poor choices when they can use cell phone freely. Parents can use these signs to prevent teenagers to misuse cell phone such as excessive usage, secretive, make calls behind closed door and late night phone calls are some of the warning signs of misusing cell phone. Hence, parents should set ground rules and discuss the appropriate usage with teenagers. Parents should monitor the phone usage at all time with the help of certain mobile applications to enable parents to monitor the child cell phone usage with a simple touch of a button.

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By: Vivien Ngai

The young generation are 'addicted' to mobile phones

These days, young people are so addicted to their mobile phones. A study found that, without their mobile phones, they will feel like they have lost a limb. There is a finding by the University of Maryland shows the growing of younger generation depends on the technology and how it become important to them. Many young people have reported to have the symptoms of distress, depression, dependency and addiction when they try to go unplugged the whole day. To improve the problems, there was a “The World Unplugged project” for people to challenge 24 hours without any media. However, more than 50 per cent of them failed this challenge because they feel uncomfortable without their devices.

By: Yvonne Tan

Cyber Restriction: When Your Teen Abuses Their Digital Privileges

Teens nowadays abuse their privileges disregarding the rules and boundaries because of convenience. There are websites to protect the families’ privacy. Different people have different opinions on digital abuse. According to Scheff (2014), there are different ways for a person to abuse their digital privileges. The actions of children may hurt others even though they think nothing of it. Parents should try to understand the way their children are acting and not take extreme actions. Parents should also have more face-to-face contact with their child to teach them the consequences of misusing the digital applications.

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