Impact of mobile phone use on adolescent students

Abstract

Mobile phone is a very big evolution of technology and has become now necessary and integral part of every human's life. The adoption of the mobile phone by young people has been a global phenomenon in recent years. It is now an integral part of adolescents' daily lives and is for the majority, the most popular form of electronic communication. In fact, the mobile phone has turned from a technological tool to a social tool. Young people use the mobile phone in positive ways to organize and maintain their social networks. However, there are also negative impacts on young peoples' peer relationships. These can include ostracism and cyber bullying. Similarly, the mobile phone has led to changed dynamics in the family, with issues of safety and surveillance from a parental perspective leading to negotiated changing freedoms for young people. While functional coordination can be beneficial for the family, other problems can arise such as financial difficulties, non-custodial parent access, as well as over reliance on the mobile phone for safety issues and intrusion into young people lives. The impact of the mobile phone on the school as an institution has not however, received as much research. Disruptions to lessons, incidences of cheating and bullying are some of the negative impacts, while texting parents of truants seems to be the only positive for the school. Further research is needed into the consequences of mobile. Youth and teenagers using mobile phones for social media, shopping, electronic mails and education but majority of youth and teenagers are using mobile phones only for using social media .When we talk about the social media the social media is the new wave of communication, the relationships that exist between network of people Online, assembly of online applications few social media websites are facebook, instagrame, whatsApp, orkut, twitter, etc .. These sites are becoming so popular in the status because it continuously attracted many people especially Teenagers since their interests are being catered by these website. Each and every minute the people connected with Social Networking Sites. The estimate India's user base of Social networking is around 150 million, with over 45 million users on Facebook in the world. This makes India the second largest country to be active on Facebook according to www.checkfacebook.com. Use of mobile phones brought a great impact to the youth especially teenagers.