Look Up

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I'll admit it. I check my smartphone compulsively. And the more I use it, the more often the urge to look at it hits me. In the office, in the class, in meeting even while in traffic jam - looking at my email and my social networks. Sometimes it is in my hand before I even know what I'm searching for. 

Old School cell phones only can call and text. While smartphones can get your message across. Smartphones allow you multiple ways of communicating. Not only can they call, text and IM, they give you access to email, video calling and video conferencing. You can also remain connected through social networking sites like twitter, facebook and instagram.  

Not just that, Smartphones have improved our lives with variety of apps, for use in fitness and health, in keeping us connected and giving us to the latest news. In fact many businesses now goes to mobile, where they provided to us the flexibility to shop at anywhere and at any times from our mobile.

However, beside all the positive impacts, smartphones also brings negative impacts to us and our society. For example, it will keep you busy for most of the day. In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. Teenager now a days are testing all the times and adults are receiving work-related phone calls or emails during holidays. 

Whether you are dumb people or not, its all depend how you can control the using of your smartphone. If you cannot control of using your smartphone then you dumb, if you can control it than you are smart. For example, you can simply put the device away when there is no need for it or you can turn off notifications from unnecessary apps that don't require you to take immediate action. Another way is to set special notifications that tell you how important message is, and whether a response is required immediately, or if it could wait. When charging your device, do it far away from where you rest or sleep. Allow yourself to be disconnected from the internet or run a complete tech detox during the weekends or when work has caught up with you. 



At the end of the day, it is in our hands to take the best of them. The choice in our hand whether to be smart or dumb. We need to be the masters of our smartphones, and not depend on it so much to make sense of this world (online and off). There is more of life than a retweet, selfie or a like. And if you happen to find it boring to live life without your smartphone, perhaps this is a wake-up call to reclaim a life that is independent of tech and geared towards true happiness. 

-Gracias-

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