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Checking phone time and again leads to lack of self-control, distraction, forgetfulness

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It has become common affair for people to have their smartphones right in their hands all the time, and the screen-time of individuals of all ages is increasing. With a new study, it has been found out that checking your phone again and again is equally harmful to your screen-time increasing. This study report, published in the British Journal of Psychology, says that checking the phone time and again leads to the reduction of the person’s capability of understanding and solving small daily-life problems.

With the habit of checking your phone more frequently gains a stronger ground, our problem solving aptitude starts weakening. The study has also revealed that now, in order to get distracted even more small problems, people pick their phones up, and keep checking their smartphones as a pastime or if they are bored. This leads to the weakening of one’s control on their brain, and distraction, and therefore, things start getting left midway, without getting completed. People also start forgetting words while talking.

The effects of checking your phone too much is similar on people from all age-categories and both the genders. Using smartphones too much is also leading to people’s eyesight getting weakened, and the most affected are children. Eye ailments like myopia and asthenopia are increasing. As per a report published in the report of the Journal of Medical Internet Research, 49.8% children aged between 5 and 8 across the globe will fall prey to myopia by the year 2050.

Sonakshi Datta
Sonakshi Datta
Journalist who wants to cover the truth which others look the other way from.

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