Advantages and Disadvantages of Mobile Phones
Mobile phones have made a revolutionary change in the fields of communication. In earlier times people used to write letters or send telegrams to communicate with their near and dear ones. That took a lot of time. But with the inventions of mobile phones, it has become very easy to communicate with people who are in distant places.
A number of its features as short message services, news, songs, videos, and camera give us both knowledge and pleasure. Some mobile manufacturing companies have also added things of daily use such as calculators, torches, and radio to their mobile sets. In this way, mobile phones are now multi-functional that have made our life easy, comfortable, and colourful. Some mobile phones are just like pocket computers.
The mobile phone has made communication with other people including our near and near ones very quick, simple and easy. It is a time-saving device. We are just a call away from our friends. In case of any emergency, we come into contact with the relevant persons in no time. We can thus prevent loss of life and property.
Mobile phones have a lot of advantages, but they also have some disadvantages. Mobile phones have some adverse effects on our society. Nowadays mobile phones or their connection is easily accessible. As a result of that, some anti-social groups or criminals are using it to facilitate their anti-social tasks. It is very difficult to track the criminal activities that have been committed with the help of mobiles.
On the other hand, most school or college-going students or teenagers are seen as addicted to mobile phones. They spend too much time on mobile phones browsing different social networking sites or watching movies or playing games that spoil their study hours.
Again after the repeated research made by some doctors, the conclusion comes that excessive use of mobile phones or cell phones is harmful to our health. It may cause migraines, loss of hearing, or even brain tumours. According to a survey report, the excessive use of mobile phones may cause ear cancer.
Mobile phones are becoming a big cause of wastage of money, wastage of time and spread of immoral messages, videos and pictures and they are also harmful to our mental and physical health.
Most of the researchers agree that the mobile phone is the cause of distress and wickedness to around 70% of teenagers. They must overcome this wrongdoing else it might lead them to some serious health or mental issues.
Every coin has two aspects. Thus mobile phones also have two different sides. It depends on how we use it. No doubt mobile phones have some negative aspects or we can simply say that there are a few disadvantages of mobile phones. But we can’t deny that the Mobile phone has made a remarkable change in the development of our civilization. Mobile phone in itself is not a bad thing but the wrong use of it may give birth to a number of evils.