Smartphones are mobile devices that provide advanced computing abilities and connectivity. They allow users to run applications and access the internet from anywhere. However, smartphones can negatively impact workplaces and education. In workplaces, smartphones distract employees during meetings when they are checking emails or social media instead of paying attention. This interrupts productivity and can cause mistakes. In education, students frequently use smartphones for non-academic purposes like games and social media during class, which hinders their learning and causes some to fail. Surveys show that smartphone overuse in these contexts hurts professionalism and performance.

1. introduction:What are the Smart Phones, what does smart phones offer…how do they distract people in work place and students at schools?

2. WHAT ARE THE SMART PHONES?Smart phones are the mobile device that provides advanced computing ability and connectivity

3. Smart phones are the ones with huge advantage of size, portability and convenience

4. They allow users to fix plenty of stuff and run more advanced application

5. Smart phones are able to run application based on platform such as JAVA ME

6. Smart phones are seen as handheld computer

7. They can be used anywhere, anytime and obviously for variety reasons

8. SMART PHONES OFFER:Tiny keyboard

9. Internet access

10. Digital cameras

11. Very small screen with a maximum size of 2.5 by 2 inches

12. Plenty of chartrooms such as: face book; WhatsApp; Mxit and others

13. Bluetooth to exchange music ,pictures , games ,video etc

14. Portable media player

15. Word processing

16. Spreadsheet How does smart phones affect communication in work place?It affect the employees, especially when they’re presenting and the management is busy doing something else on the phone rather than listening

17. People who uses their phones during the meetings normally doesn’t pay attention to what’s being said

18. It set an unpleasant example of business and it also affect the importance of the meeting

19. As employees do their presentation to their CEO’s they do listen and offer insightful type away on their phones

20. People uses their phones during meetings Risks of using smart phones in working areaManagement can make unpleasant mistakes while they’re busy checking emails, responding right away, visiting sites on internet

21. People lose concentration

22. It interrupt productivity

23. People affect their health ,using a phone for a phone for a long time eyes inches as well as the hand

24. A person could be explored to behavioural health risks and technology overload

25. Smart phones are addictiveSurvey show that most people agree that smart phones hurt workplace etiquette

26. An employee at work

27. How do smart phones affect education?Since these smart phones provides internet students visit internet all the time

28. Students loves to explore new stuff such as new games, pictures and watch YouTube while they’re in class

29. They tend to forget about their school work if they’re busy on internet, listening to music or playing games

30. They forever on chartrooms, even during the classes

31. students doesn’t force on their school work

32. Students uses their phone to read newspapers online and ignore useful stuff

33. Effect of using chatrooms on smart phonesPeople are being kidnapped and killed

34. They chat with strangers and give them their correct details

35. Students spreads terrible rumours about each other on chart rooms and some ends up killing themselves

36. People post their naked pictures on profile pictures of their chat roomsStatistics shows that:Research from Comscore in December 2009 the following theory - ‘It was found that 70 percent of smartphone users have access email and 43 per cent have accessed social networks via their devices’Conclusion There ‘s no doubt that smart phones has taken the world by storm but to face the fact is some people do not use them in a smart way

37. Smart phones have certainly changed the way people communicate

38. Smart phones increases the rate of failers at schools

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