Argumentative Essay

   

     These days, smartphones are really popular among students. They use smartphones to create good communication in their social life. But, smartphones are also being used as a platform to search for informations and it has been used as a replacement to computers and laptops. This is because of the size of the smartphones are much smaller but in the same time students are able to do many things easily compared to using computers and laptops which are larger in size and sometimes burdening to carry around. Somehow, usage of smartphones has more negative sides compared to its benefits if it is being used in a wrong way.

    Firtsly, uncontrollable usage of smartphones will make students waste most of their time using internet only for social network sites. Smartphones make everything becomes easier to get and these days, logging in to social network sites are much easier because of the applications that had been installed in the smartphones. This will lead the students to always surfing the internet and log in to their social network sites everywhere and everytime they want. Even worse, students will also surf the internet during classes and they are not going to give full attention to the lectures. So, overusage of smartphones will lead to time waste among student.

   Secondly, smartphones will enable students to surf inappropriate websites. This is because, smartphones are created to make the surfing of internet becomes easier and some of students tend to use this advantages to go into some negative webpages that they should not visit. For example, there are some cases that the students use their phone to surf porn websites and it will lead the students to behave negatively because they can be influenced easily by the things they have watched. Underage students that are not fully understand about certain things will easily tend to follow things that they watched and it is not good for them. So, using smartphones also can lead to negative behaviour among students.

       Lastly, if the usage of smartphones among students are not being controlled, it will affect their real communication . The will stick with their smartphones even they are being surrounded by many people and it will affect their real communication due to leass interaction between the students and people around them. Some of the students who are really obsess with their smartphones, they are usually really good in socializing in social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. They are well known as a friendly person but the fact is otherwise. Spending too much time and focus on their social network life make them ignore the people around them and they cannot even communicate as good as they did in the social network sites. So the usage of smartphones will also affect people's real communication ability.

      As a conclusion, usage of smartphones has more negative sides compared to its own benefits if it is not being used properly and smartly. Smartphones are invented to make complicated things become easier and it has many functions that will give big advantages if we use it smartly. People especially students, should use smartphones in proper way and they should avoid using the smartphones in ways that will harm their own self. If people can use the advantages given to them, they will make great positive changes in their life and it will give them a bigger opportunity to create success for their own life.