Kids are falling to addiction to smartphones
Modern cell phones are full of unique and interesting features. All of us are becoming addicting to smartphones They are now becoming a necessary part of modern life even that for many of us cannot even live without it.
It has lots of advantages but its excessive use can also have some disadvantages especially for the students. .According to an estimate, about 71% of students are addicted to their smartphones.
Students are spending most of their time on mobile phones that are not good for the new generation. Some children are even getting involved in wrong deeds because of phones.
This addiction can affect their studies as well as have adverse effects on their health. The use of smartphones is also impacting their academic performance.
Now three entrepreneurs who met at Copenhagen Business School—Maths Mathisen, Florian Winder, and Vinoth Vinaya—has launched an app to combat smartphone addiction, particularly among students.
Called Hold, the free app tracks the continuous minutes during the day that a person doesn’t use their smartphone. It then awards the user points for showing restraint.
The longer they resist checking their device, the more points they get. Those points can then be used to purchase products and services—such as cinema tickets—or enter competitions or donate to charity via the app’s marketplace.
“We want to reward users for not using their phone, rather than punish them,” says co-founder Maths Mathisen.
Trials at universities in Scandinavia and the UK have seen students report greater concentration levels as they hold off checking their phones for notifications.
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