Why Taiwanese youths overuse smartphones?
It’s hard to restrict yourself from using smartphones in our daily life. No matter we text, chat, or watch videos, we can’t leave our smartphones. Because technology has become better than before, not only adults but also teenagers have smartphones now. They can use smartphone to help with their academic assignments or just kill time. But some teenagers become addicted to smartphones and overuse them. This causes problems of eye health and socialization. For the causes of why Taiwanese youth overuse smartphones and have gradually become a normal thing, there are three reasons to exacerbate this situation of overuse.
First of all, teenagers usually overuse smartphones without noticing time. This may be a bad habit they get used to when they were little. Because there are so many attractive apps and videos on the Internet, this causes teenagers to stare at smartphones for a long time.
What’s more, Teenagers may think that they just play video games for one hour, then end up playing for more than one.
Sometimes they need to search for information for their reports, but they are attracted by those funny comics or music.
Also, some teenagers aren’t self-disciplined. If parents don’t pay attention to teenagers, they won’t stop using smartphones. Therefore, when they finally want to do their homework, they find that time has passed. As a result, this becomes a terrible cycle that causes teenagers to overuse smartphones day by day.
Second, teenagers become more addicted to smartphones because they want to escape from numerous assignments. Doing such massive work every day is an awful thing. Teenagers may not only have the daily works but also events or activities in school to do. Since there are so many works one by one, some teenagers have too much pressure on those assignments and feel uncomfortable with them. For this reason, they may want to escape from these things temporarily, and that’s why teenagers overuse smartphones.
Last but not least, adolescents may be anxious or less confident in real life and want to relieve themselves by using smartphones. Some adolescent are afraid of talking to people in real life. For them, it’s hard to talk to others face to face because they aren’t confident in themselves. Moreover, a few teenagers will be anxious from people. At this age, caring about others’ thoughts is normal for them. And they will use smartphones to relieve their pressure. Because they can be themselves online, they will gradually expand their time to use smartphones. This not only affects their socialization but also their health.
Overusing smartphones has become a normal situation between teenagers. This causes the problem of health and academic assignments. Since there are not only the three reasons above that cause this problem, we should pay more attention to overusing smartphones. For example, if we could communicate with adolescents about the problem of overusing instead of punishing them, they may be willing to change their mind. To sum up, if we want to change this situation, we should try to realize what teenagers want and communicate with them. I think this will be a good start for youth to make a change in an easy way.
