THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF USING MOBILE PHONES

Today’s modern world, the development of mobile phones brought convenient and advantages to the world. Communications between people are coming very faster and smarter. Tough, the disadvantages brought along with fast-growing technology cannot be ignored. Thus, it is not surprising if there are many points in favor and against the mobile phone. Those in favor of the usage of the mobile phone have their own reasons for believing so.

First of all, we can use the mobile phone anywhere, and we can always be reached. This advantage is upgraded with ultra-advancement of the technology, which enables us to make or receive local and international calls from different locations around the world. Whereas long before mobile phones were invented, we had to search for the fixed-line phone, wherever possible.

What is more interesting is the fact that we can keep in touch with a lot of people, and get a lot of new friend’s number through mobile phones because blood is thicker than water. Before mobile phones were invented we could certainly lose the opportunity to see a certain person that we would like to meet again. A fixed line phone would be helpful during those times, but it is not portable, unlike the mobile phone which is smaller and user-friendly.
Besides, the advantage of using a mobile phone is to reduce or billing items, we can now using social media like Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram, Instagram and etc.

This allows us to control our expenses as we can always keep track of how many messages that we have sent through social media. When we use social media it won’t deduct any cost from our billing, its just can use via WiFi or other Internet connection. Some of the social media applications now also offer cheaper usage of the Internet due to its performance among users. This factor also contributes to the increased usage of the service, especially teenagers as they have yet to acquire their own salary.

Although there are many benefits of using mobile, there also have some disadvantages of using these advanced mobile phones. The first disadvantage is mobile phones with camera functions are causing serious privacy issue. Some countries have banned such phones to eliminate the problems faced by. This is because many people have misused camera application extremely in mobile phones to capture photos which are not meant to be viewed by the public. Especially TV or News reporters causing really create high-level issues which is made may people to commit suicide.

Furthermore, symptoms caused by the radiation of mobile phones are one of the most argued problems. Many researchers believe that the radiation from the mobile phones may cause the users to have various symptoms like a headache, earache, blurring of vision and even causing cancer. Since this matter is still under research, mobile phone users are advised to reduce the usage of mobile phones to at any possible time.

All in all, the development of mobile phones has its own pros and cons. They have helped us to improve our life quality but to the certain extent, our over dependency towards them have made us lose the ability to perform our best. So each and every mobile phone's user have to think rationally about the usage of mobile phones.