How mobile phone kills human communication skills

WATSUPPTODAY, 6-Nov-2020

Mobile phone addiction is the biggest problem which can be seen everywhere. Today Smartphones serve as a constant companion for many of us. They keep us continually connected, filling gaps in our day, entertaining us, and demanding our attention with a string of notifications. Because they offer a convenient alternative to face-to-face conversations, and at times they butt into our chats directly, there’s a growing realization that they may be killing the art of conversation. Smartphones enable us to avoid direct conversations altogether. We can chat via text messages, or in real-time on social media, but there’s a danger that we’re missing out on some important aspects of communication when we do this, we lose our self confidence as well as we forget how to socialize with our family and friends. A lot of what used to be done face to face is now done via computer mediated communication and I think that’s sad because what we’ve lost is the humanness of contact and conversation. “When we lose our ability to relate to people, to empathize with people, we care less about those people.” Children are most in danger of developing life-long issues with social and interpersonal communication; they enjoy their time by using mobile phones, making it a behaviour they want to engage with phone non-stop. This phone obsession should be checked by parents otherwise in the long term our children won’t develop the art of subtle, patient, multidimensional appropriate communication. They become clumsy, uneasy in making eye contact, lose their self confidence and are not able to face the world.