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

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.

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By: Chow Suet Li