Arit
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3/21/2019
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The use of your phone late at night makes you tired and feel less focused on what you are
doing the next day. A study, completed in two parts, asked about the cell phone use at their jobs,
amount of sleep time, feeling tired, and workplace engagement. The second part of it focused on
the use of other electronics and how they affect tiredness, sleep, and work engagement.
Researchers found that the use of electronics after 9 p.m. makes you sleep less time, so you are
tired, and your work engagement decreases. Cell phones have bigger effects than other types of
electronics.
“Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep” stated by Russell Johnson, a
teacher assistant at Michigan State University. He argued, “Because they keep us mentally
engaged late into the evening, they make it hard to detach from work so we can relax and fall
asleep.” Our ability to work is affected by the exposure of light at night, and it can increase risk
of diseases, like cancer.
A second study confirms that people under 25 check their phones at least thirty-two times
a day and they found that adults spend close to seven hours a day looking at a screen. Almost
half of them feel anxiety when they can’t check their phones. Amanda Saint, an optician, says,
“Get your eyes tested regularly and take regular breaks from your computer.” Teens go to bed
late and they get muscle pains and headaches for being on their phones too long. The excessive
use of electronics doesn’t have any good consequences on us and our health.
