You and Your Smartphone—Who’s in Charge?
Smartphones are changing our lives/—but not always for the better. There are dangers of misuse. It’s about time to examine carefully/whether we are using smartphones in a healthy way.
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Everywhere we look,/we see people bending over their smartphones. They are in their own private world. This kind of scene has become so common/that we no longer find it strange.
It is estimated/that more than four billion people in the world/are using smartphones. In Japan,/the number of people who own smartphones/has been increasing rapidly. In 2011,/only 14.6% of the total population/was using smartphones. By 2018,/the rate had increased to 64.7%. On average,/Japanese teenagers spend 143 minutes a day/using smartphones just for the Internet,/while people in their 20s spend 129 minutes/for the same purpose. These figures indicate/that we are now living in a new culture/where the digital world meets the real world.
Smartphones are changing our lives/—but not always for the better. There are dangers of misuse. It’s about time to examine carefully/whether we are using smartphones in a healthy way.
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Everywhere we look,/we see people bending over their smartphones. They are in their own private world. This kind of scene has become so common/that we no longer find it strange.
It is estimated/that more than four billion people in the world/are using smartphones. In Japan,/the number of people who own smartphones/has been increasing rapidly. In 2011,/only 14.6% of the total population/was using smartphones. By 2018,/the rate had increased to 64.7%. On average,/Japanese teenagers spend 143 minutes a day/using smartphones just for the Internet,/while people in their 20s spend 129 minutes/for the same purpose. These figures indicate/that we are now living in a new culture/where the digital world meets the real world.