Effect of Mobile Phone (Smartphone) on the Youth of Semi-Urban City

Effect of Mobile Phone (Smartphone) on the Youth of Semi-Urban City

S. V. Ugemuge1, * and S. M. Totade2

1,2Kumbhalkar College of Social Work, Wardha 442001 (INDIA)

* Email: snehastiple@gmail.com

Abstract: In this paper the youth of semi urban locality a small city of Wardha is considered to study the effect of mobile phone (smartphone) on them. The students were from various age gender and family structure. The factor studied in this paper are activeness of mobile usage, effect on daily life and time spend on mobile phones. The effect mobile phone usage on social life and health of youth is also studied. The help of mobile on giving various type of global information and educational information is analysed. The personal gain due to use of mobile phone for online application and other work including job opportunities etc. is also consider for analysis. At last misuse of mobile by youth and phishing awareness, govt law awareness was also considered for study in this paper The response was correlated to other responses. The youth found the use of mobile for certain applications in a very better way such as finding job opportunities and filling online applications etc. On the other hands some of the parameters in this paper show negative impact on the life of youth.

Keywords: Effect of Mobile Phone; Social Effect; Health effect; Personal Gain

DOI link – https://doi.org/10.69758/GIMRJ/2601I01VXIVP0004

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