Cellphone Addiction in Rbca Academy

CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTINGS

Introduction

As we all know there has been great development in technology. This has resulted in invention of many gadgets and cell phone is one of them. Despite its usefulness, excessive use of this device has various negative impacts. A person suffering from such a phenomenon is referred to cell phone addict. He relies over his cell phone for all the various day to day activities not concentrating on anyone else near him. A person is suffering from this form of addiction can be predicted by the cell phone bills and the abrupt behavior in case the cell phone is missing.

Nearly one third of the students in Rbca have shown signs of addiction as they felt uneasy and displayed abnormal behavior in case their cell phone went missing. The rest two third also consider their cell phone to be a very essential item for them. The teen agers suffering this addiction become really obsessed with the device and the usefulness it provides. They tend to ignore other important activities such as studies and sports. This leads to poor performance and depletion in their health. They take unnecessary risks by using their cell phones at the time of driving leading to many accidents. Excessive cell phone usage also increases problems on an interpersonal level.

In order to overcome this problem of cell phone addiction there is need to regularly monitor its usage, keep a track of the time you spend talking and messaging. Note it down for reference later. Try using other things to serve your needs such as notepad to jot down anything and a watch for monitoring time. After finding the time spent over cell phone it is now required to reduce you dependence over it by slowly decreasing the time

Background of Study

This study is concentrated on what cell phone addiction is all about. As well as the wide use of text messaging in RB Cordero Academy and the students being hooked...