THE IMPORTANCE AND IMPACT of smartphone to teens

~INDIVIDUAL ESSAY~

Smartphone have become a form of personal ornament that must be owned by all teenagers. The sophistication of smartphone often attract young people up there who are willing to starve or work during school holidays just to get the latest and better smartphone. As a result, people thought that smartphones have become a waste, but there are still lauding the importance of this handphone.Thus, what is the advantages of mobile phones to teens? These are the reasons.
Here are 5 things a typical smartphone is used more frequently than making or receiving voice calls:

1. email- one of the greatest things about the smartphone is that it's capable of accessing and downloading email over either a wi-fi network or a cellular data connection. That means your email is available in your pocket 24/7.
2. texting/instant messaging- a nice middle-ground between email and voice calls. It's an immediate form of communication, and it is often way more convenience and courteous than a voice call.
3.  web surfing- this point started out being called 'research'. Whether you need to keep up with breaking news in your country even worldwide the smartphone lets you surf the Web in the palm of your hand. You can compare features or research better prices while out for shopping.
4. GPS- Maps, and turn-by turn directions are one of the most valuable functions of a smartphone. Whether you are driving in your car or hoofing it, your smartphone can help you reach the destinations as efficiently as possible.
5. camera- one of the common uses for a smartphone is as a camera or video camera. Just look at the phenomenal success of Instagram, Flickr, and many more. It's not that the smartphone is a better camera than DSLR or even a traditional point-and-shoot- in fact most pale in comparison. It's simply a matter of convenience because most people have their smartphone with them everywhere they go and do not carry a camera around unless they know they need to. 

Obviously, mobile phones have multipurpose important in ensuring our youth into an informative adolescent.

Certainly the most visible impact is the use of mobile phones has led to increasing living cost. The habit of using the telephone to communicate keeping the cost increase. This situation may be burdened for them to seek new money to pay the bills or even worse can lead them towards a negative ways such as stealing parent's money just to settle the bills or buy prepaid to stay connected. Thus, mobile phones can cause adolescence experiencing serious financial problems.

Furthermore, frequent use of smartphone among the teenagers can make them lost focus and interest on studying. They tend to use smartphone during the lesson class, by surfing internet, having chit chat with friends at cyberspace and become busier with useless things. That's why i disagree with the recommendation of allowing the students to bring the cell phones to the school because i think there will be more negative impacts. This is because these days there's a lot of social networking that are very popular among the teenagers such as facebook, twitter, instagram, whatsapp, wechat and much more. I am daring to say that teenagers nowadays have all this application on their smartphone because this applications can be downloaded using the play store. If this issues continues without supervision it will affect the student's performance.

In the nutshell, the smartphone used should be controlled among the teenagers to prevent them from unhealthy culture. Parents should be reprimand and supervise their children from using this technology recklessly. But, i have no doubt about the importance of the smartphone. There are pro and contra about the smartphone. But if we used this technology wisely, there's a lot of benefit we can gain from that.