This presentation deals with the addiction of mobile phone and its demerits. Taking the real examples of the accidents caused by mobile addiction given in outlook magazine, September edition.

2. THE DEMON ON MY PALM
(Mobile-Loving India Faces Strange Digital Disorders)
Outlook Magazine – 5th September, 2019
By Damayanti Datta

3. RUPALI PATEL – FIRST BECOMES LAST

4. T. SHIVA – ONE MINUTE TO FAME

5. FORGET IT

6. MOST DARING SELFIE HIGH, HIGH, HIGH AND DRY

7. The survey reveals that:-
 47% - spend too much time on their mobile
phones
 Over 62% - remain attached to their
devices even when they eat
 One in five feel tired from excessive social
media use.
 Back pain is their biggest problem, forcing
one in nine to take painkillers regularly.
 45% - confessed they want to bring down
the time they spend on their mobile phones.

8. The survey reveals that:-
 The average young Indian checks mobile phones 150 times a
day
 One in every three texts and talks even when they are driving
 One in two cannot survive beyond five hours without internet
 95% Indians - their device is their lifeline
 50% selfie deaths in the world occur in India – AIIMS Bhopal
“Most sufferers don’t realize they have a problem and
most don’t seek treatment”
(Dr. Manoj Kumar Sharma)

9. The survey reveals that:-
 There are new names for new disorders :
Nomophobia - fear of having no mobile phone
Textaphrenia - you think a message has arrived, when
it actually hasn’t
Textiety or panic attacks - not receiving text messages
56% - Keep mobile phones close to their body
93% - Got panic attacks if they did not get messages
19% - Had painful thumbs due to excessive texting

10.  https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/india-news-selfie-death-capital-of-
the-world-mobile-loving-india-faces-strange-digital-disorders/302104
 https://www.google.com/search?q=the+demon+in+our+palm&sxsrf=ACYBGNQc
WTxfh_sCQnNFTGrOjPYwbsXAWg:1572794464043&source=lnms&tbm=isch&s
a=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHyNX6q87lAhUKtI8KHVYWAtwQ_AUIEigB&biw=1366
&bih=608
 https://www.indiatoday.in/education-
today/featurephilia/story/mobile-phone-students-355284-2016-
12-02
 https://advergize.com/edu/18-disadvantages-mobile-phones/

11. THANK YOU
Presented By – Bindu Raju
Romil Sethi
Vaibhav Kumar Dubey
(Group 8)
PGDM(1st yr.-Trimester 2)
Shivalik Institute of Management
Education And Research