Impact of using Smartphone for young Indonesian people excessively

Assignment.


Human as a social being is always communicating each other. Human have created phone to make human easier to communicate someone in everywhere. Nowadays, technology has grown fast and created a gadget or known as Smartphone. The things that make this phone is different with the other phone is this Smartphone not only for calling or sending a message as like the previous phone but also to see movie, search an information on the internet, access database of computer faster than the past phone. With sophisticate applications, it brings a lot of advantages for the owner. Even if it is very useful thing but it also has the impact. Smartphone have the impact on social aspect, cultural aspect and psychological aspect for the owner especially for young people.

Young people who are growing up always want to know about everything. With Smartphone, they can find information about other countries’ culture easier on the internet. Information about culture from the other countries impacted so many young Indonesian people and made them less interested to Indonesia culture. They learn more about foreign culture than Indonesian culture. Some of them are more proud to speak feign language than using an Indonesian language. They prefer to learn about break dance, to wear like western people and to act like western people. They think that western is cool and stylist. That’s why most of young people don’t know much about Indonesian cultures.

Even if the changing of technology communication brought the positive impact to everyone in social live, it also brought the negative impacts. It impacted a social aspect. For the example, It is showed when some of young people were gathering in a place. They sat in the same place but they kept silent each other and busy with their gadget. They prefer playing the game or using a media social than talking each other. It means that gadget has decreased a care and makes them into an individualism people from people around them.

The most social media user is young people. By the Smartphone, they can connect to internet 24 hours a day. Using a social media is a happiness one. In social media, they can know about the newest news, talk with some friends, post a picture etc. Based on scientific research, young people is easy to get addicted of social media. To cure an addiction of social media needs the same therapy as addiction of narcotics.   Smartphone not only causes an addiction but also disturbs concentration and wastes the rest time.

Because of those cases, we have to be wise to utilize this technology. We have to know what the main function is from that phone. Old people have to give attention to young people because they still need a guidance to filter where the bad effect is. Although the technology development is important and very useful for us but we should realize that everything has a good and bad impact. Minimize the bad impact and find the benefit of it.