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Zoey gives a presentation on smartphone addiction where she discusses reasons for addiction, symptoms, and impacts. Some key points include: - People rely on smartphones for everything, leading to addiction issues - Symptoms include checking phones at night and using them to avoid tasks - Costs include reduced productivity, social isolation, and health issues like neck pain - To fight addiction, one should be intentional with phone use and engage with real-life activities instead of the phone

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Zoey gives a presentation on smartphone addiction where she discusses reasons for addiction, symptoms, and impacts. Some key points include: - People rely on smartphones for everything, leading to addiction issues - Symptoms include checking phones at night and using them to avoid tasks - Costs include reduced productivity, social isolation, and health issues like neck pain - To fight addiction, one should be intentional with phone use and engage with real-life activities instead of the phone

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“Have you ever felt that your phone is vibrating or ringing while it is not?

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“Have you ever felt nervous when your phone battery is below 10%”
“You are texting, talking, playing games or listening to music while walking?”
I am sorry to say that you might get smartphone addiction.

Hi, I am Zoey. Today, I am going to talk about smartphone addiction.


Not only me but the majority of smartphone users are becoming addicted to our smartphones. Because of this
presentation, I downloaded an app to track the time spent on the phone. I am surprised to find out that I spend
4 to 5 hours per day on smartphone and it is not a small number at all. So that I want our colleagues, including
myself, to get knowledge of the dangers of smartphone addiction and steps to breaking it.

After my talk, I hope that you can realize if you get smartphone addiction or not through the warning signs; know
the dangerous sides of smartphone overuse and the ways to fight back.
I’d like to discuss this problematic smartphone use from three fundamental points of view including reasons and
symptoms, the impacts and how to get over smartphone overuse. My first point covers the reasons leading to
smartphone addictions and the warning signs so that you can check yourself if you are a part of this global
problem.

PART 1: REASONS AND SYMPTOMS OF SMARTPHONE ADDICTION


1. Why do you become addicted to your smartphone?
 Your brain on the smartphone- we rely on them
Cell phones used to just be communication tools. Now, they’re GPS, cameras, gaming consoles,
shopping, health trackers, and the list goes on. We don’t just use our smartphones for everything - we
rely on them.
 Convenient- When you can experience impulse-control problems with a laptop or desktop computer, the
size and convenience of smartphones means that we can take them just about anywhere.
 Social media & internet addiction have two-sided relationship with smartphone addiction. One will result
in another and reverse.

2. Symptoms and warning signs of smartphone addiction.


 You check your phone in the middle of the night
 Your phone is your constant bathroom companion
 You get anxious when you forget your phone
 You can’t help but use your phone when face to face with others
 You use your phone to escape from tasks and challenges
3. Smombies and their safety alert.
Smombies are smartphone zombies describe pedestrians with their eyes glued to their smartphones pose a
serious danger to traffic, put their own and other road users’ lives at risk.
Many solutions have been proposed and implemented to ensure pedestrian safety against the distractions
caused by immersion in smartphones.
 Ground-level traffic lights to warn people who text while walking that there's a train coming
 Smartphone addict lane in China
 Floor decals to alert distracted mobile users

After knowing these warning signs, I guess you can evaluate yourself to know if you are a part of this global
problem or not. But you will never realize the danger of one thing until you know the cost you have to pay. Our
next important element is the costs of smartphone addiction. Smartphone addiction not only causes problems to
you, yourself including physical and mental health but also to people around us, the society.
PART 2: COSTS OF SMARTPHONE ADDICTION
1. Distraction
Reduce productivity. For example: If you spend eight hours a day at the office and devote an hour to non-work-
related activities — responding to emails from friends, posting on Facebook and Instagram, tweeting the latest
outrage to your Twitter followers — your output for a day’s work will be lower than it was without the distractions
and interruptions.

2. Social Isolation
When people rely on a smartphone to stay in touch with others, they don’t get much personal interaction. Even
when they’re together, instead of sharing deeply and building relationships, they are distracted by a device.
I had experience in that problem. When I went out for coffee with my friends, instead of chatting, we were focusing
on our phones, surfing webs and chatting. And that is a big problem. People just focus on the phones and forget
their surroundings

3. Health issues
 Back and neck pain
Neck muscles, in their proper position, are designed to support the weight of your head, about 10 to 12
pounds. Looking down at your smartphone, with your chin to your chest, can put about 60 pounds of
force on your neck. It is kind of putting a 6 years old child sitting on your neck. So that you can imagine
the damage it will cause to your neck.
 “Text claw”- chronic and growing pain we feel in our wrists and thumbs from too much scrolling and
texting
 Poor sleep quality, emotional issue: Depression, low self-esteem
Depression, anxiety, and sleep quality may be associated with smartphone overuse. Such overuse may
lead to depression and/or anxiety, which can in turn result in sleep problems. University students with
high depression and anxiety scores should be carefully monitored for smartphone addiction.
Now after you are realizing the dangerous sides of smartphone addiction, I will move to my last and the most
important point: How to fight back again smartphone addiction. So that you guys can help yourself and your
surroundings to get over it.
Part 3: How to fight back again smartphone addiction
1. Use the power of intention before picking up your phone.
Before automatically picking up your device to see what shiny new notifications are demanding your precious
attention, say to yourself, What’s my purpose for using my phone at this moment?

2. Pay attention to your surroundings.


You miss the rich experience that comes with living
For example, when you are on the bus, instead of playing games or surfing to kill the times, you could enjoy the
scenes outside

3. Don’t take it to dinner and bed


Sharing a meal can be the most enjoyable part of your day if you are fully present and engaged with others at
the table.
If you’re like most people, ain’t nothing so important that you need to let a phone disturb those precious, quiet
life moments right before bed or after waking up.

4. Make a list of real-life activities you love and substitute them for phone time.
If you’re just sat there with the TV on in the background and scrolling aimlessly on your phone, try putting that
time into the gym, a hobby or going to meet friends and catch up. Real-life activities help a lot in reducing the
time you spend on smartphones.
In overall, when you’re considering how to break cell phone addiction, the best way is to think of it as physical
addiction such as smoking, drinking or eating. It’s about recognizing habits and working on slowly reducing the
time to manageable amounts.

I have just covered the three most important points about smartphone addiction and I think that you already have
had certain knowledge about this problem.
What I want to say is that no matter how convenient, smart and effective of smartphones, you have to know how
to use it smartly. You are the person uses it, don’t let it control you; don’t let yourself being dependent on it.

My intention today is to convince you to take the next step in controlling your smartphone usage time. When you
can reduce it, you will find out many valuable things around you, get better control in time management and
enhance the productivity in everything you do.

Thank you for your listening!

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