Impact of Cell Phone Use on Connecting and Bonding Among People

Impact of Cell Phone Use on Connecting and Bonding Among People
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Impact of Cell Phone Use on Connecting and Bonding Among People
Most people spend nearly a third of their waking hours on their mobile phones than bonding physically. The Daily Mail reports that people used an average of 4.8 hours on their mobile phones in 2021 (Chadwick, 2022). People bonding and mobile use are two essential aspects of humanity that influence bonding. People belong to social institutions like families and workplace communities that need physical or virtual bonding to strengthen their relationships. Mobile phones are crucial bonding gadgets because they accelerate and ease communication and access to crucial information (Dat, 2019). There is a need to balance mobile use and physical bonding because both are important. However, mobile phone usage seems to have excited most people leading to an increase in their use and thus affecting how people bond physically. While cell phones interfere with bonding, people should have more self-control and use cell phones appropriately to connect with others because cell phones are valuable gadgets that allow people to stay connected during any circumstance. Cellphones also enable people to communicate via video or phone call.
Cellphones greatly influence the level of connectivity in society. Technology has improved over the years and provides many different ways for people to connect. Initially, connecting was challenging because of crude technology that was bonding and communication unfriendly. People evolved from the initial practice of using messengers to deliver messages to another individual or group to the current mobile technology where one uses a cellphone to deliver the message through short message services (SMS), phone calls, video calls, email, and social media (Aker & Mbiti, 2010). The Pew Research Centre conducted a study in 2019 to determine the global mobile phones' level of connectivity. To achieve this, the study used eleven developing economies because the level of impact in these countries is likely to be at the least in the global statistics factoring in the developed nations. Silver et al. (2020) noted that over 90 % of the people who own mobile phones in the participating countries reported the positive impact of mobile phones in connecting them with people far away from them. This reiterates the importance of mobile phones in connecting people.
Mobile phones ensure that communication is done anywhere and anytime if a network is available. Feedback is instant with the help of cell phones; thus, the most significant benefit behind the advancement in communication through technology is increased connectivity (Brown, 2020; Rosen, 2004). Currently, people connect more using internet technology incorporated into cellphones. One can access social media and other crucial services that need communication, like banking, using the apps installed on smartphones boosting connectivity through social media. The year 2021 recorded the highest number of professional communication for essential services like banking as clients could not go to the banking halls due to the COVID 19 disease (Silver et al., 2020). These communication...