Advantage and Disadvantage of Mobile Phone for Students

Advantages And Disadvantages Of Mobile Phones For Students

Each and every technology has its own advantages and disadvantages for students and mobile phone is one of them. Buying a mobile phone for your kid is easy, but think twice before buy that for them. In the current world, mobile phones are really essential for everyone’s life. But, it doesn’t mean that you can’t live a life without a mobile phone. When we talk about school students, having a mobile phone is 50-50 chances of advantage and disadvantage. It’s all up to the student who uses the mobile phone. A student can improve themselves with the help of mobile phone, meanwhile, the same student can spoil their life with the help of same mobile phone. It all depends on how they use mobile phones. So, in this post, I’m going to figure out the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones for students.

Advantages Of Mobile Phones For Students

1 – Very useful in emergency situations

It’s very clear to all that mobile phones came to this world for emergency purposes. If students have a mobile phone, then it’s easy to contact anyone at their needs. For instance, if a student has some problem in school, or in the street after school, he/she can contact their parents immediately. Likewise, a student with a phone can contact police at any harmful situation, or contact fire brigade if they find fire somewhere, or even they can call any useful departments on their needs. So, the mobile phone is one of the best solutions for any emergency situations.

2 – Great equipment in order to improve knowledge

Could you realize how our parents or grandparents studied? They studied and got knowledge only from teachers and parents. Imagine, how things changed now. Of course, we get knowledge from teachers and parents. But on top of that internet helps us much more than old days. Students who passed in first class must be gained some extra knowledge and surely which is from the internet. Before the library helps the student to gain some extra knowledge and now the whole library is in the student’s pocket as a mobile phone. You can search anything and get the great explanation with the help of mobile phone. So students, if you have a mobile phone get more good stuff from it instead of waste your time in bad stuff.

3 – Doubts cleared as soon as you got one

Think about yourself. What are you going to do when you get some doubts on the subject? In the 1950s or 1960s, students wait until the next day to meet teacher or friend. But 2015s students straightaway make a call to friend or teacher and cleared their doubts as soon as possible. How good is this life? We are living in this era with perfect technology. Also, if you missed one important lecture you can just phone a friend and get to know about the whole lecture. If you have any doubt on that lecture or need further explanation just Google it. Easy Peasy life isn’t it?

4 – Get to know what happen around the world

When we look back to early days, only aged people follow the news around the world. But nowadays the trend changes and even school student know what happening around the world. How’s it changed? Nothing other than mobile phones and the internet. 21st of March 2015 Google slightly change their policy on all websites, which is, all websites and blogs must have a user-friendly design with all mobile devices. Do you know why they changed this policy? Nowadays more searches come from mobile devices than PCs and laptops. This simply indicates students with mobile phone use their device for searching news and other useful stuff and get to know what happen around the world.

5 – Adviser/Guider/Instructor/Teacher/Director

A student having a mobile phone means that the student has everything. Early morning it works as an alarm clock. Also, it works as a reminder if you put some notes on the reminder. You don’t need a calculator as long as you have a mobile phone. You can take a snapshot or download lecture slides. Or even you can record the whole lectures.  Any doubts you can just Google it. You can manage you spending or receiving money with the help of money management apps. You can use the mobile phone as your personal diary. Likewise, a student can use your mobile phone for various purposes.

Disadvantages Of Mobile Phones For Students

1 – Playing games every time

Student’s age is a kind of playing age. Even though they concentrate on their subjects their mind goes to play stations, Xbox, Wii, Computers and Mobile phones. Nowadays I saw lots of students who hate everything other than mobile phones. I think they love it because they can download so many games there. So, what will happen if students having an own mobile phone? Simply they try to play games. They are small, so they have to play games as we did in our childhood. But everything has some limit. If a student playing games every time then it’s better to bring his/her mobile phone back. Because their studies and other useful activities destroy by this mobile phone. But if they play games once in a while, then it’s totally fine.

2 – Change their way to some unwanted things

In this current world, mobile phones change students habit a lot. Through mobile phones you can search lots of good stuff, meanwhile, you can search lots of bad stuff as well. Nowadays almost all the students addicted to porn videos and some other porn activity websites. That’s really bad. This is why we can see lots of student with cigarettes and drugs. This is one of the major flaws for the rise of technology. Even I met lots of parents who got disappointment with their kid’s behavior. So I advise to parents, please don’t allow your kid to use mobile phones if you find something bad on them.

3 – Sleepless nights and get tired

When students playing games on mobile phone, they don’t care about time as they concentrate fully on the game. Most of the student choose night bed time for playing. Because no one would disturb them. So they play till 2 or 3 in the early morning unless parents come and shout them to sleep. Some students choose the sleeping time for chatting with friends. Chatting also makes them sleep at very late. Do you know what happens if they sleep at late? Next day they get tired which doesn’t make them concentrate on subjects. So, students must sleep as soon as finish their homework and dinner so that they would start next day with fresh and confident.

4 – Disturbed other students

Mobile phones disturbing other students in 2 ways. One is When there is an important lecture going on and if your mobile phone ring on that time, it will disturb the whole class. Most of the students put their mobile phones in silent mode, but some students don’t care about that. So the ringing tone completely disturb others and the lecturer. Another one is, some students want to have a mobile phone, but their parents don’t allow them to keep one. Such students mentally disturbed when they see the next bench student having a mobile phone.

5 – Reduced to spend time with family

This is another major disadvantage of having a mobile phone by a student. Before these phones and technology, students spend plenty of time with their family. Now students spent their free time with mobile phones. Either playing games or chatting with friends via mobile phones. They don’t have any idea about how much family is important in their life. Chatting with family is one of the most important things for everyone and we can learn more good stuff when we freely talk with our family. So parents, at least, bring your kids together at dinner time and have your meals together in one table. A family chain is very important and try to make them understand that.