4.5.2. Negative Impacts
Addiction to Smartphone is major impact on social life. Surveys show that Smartphone addiction is
interfering with our night‘s sleep. According to the survey, 33% of mobile workers admitted that they
check their phones for email and message throughout the night. Nearly 50% of those surveyed said,
they wouldn‘t even think of going to bed without have their Smartphone‘s tucked under their pillows.
This addiction to Smartphone is impacting the social and family life and creating frictions in our lives
[34]. Another aspect is that applications installed on Smartphone enabling image and video editing,
allowing individuals to manipulate the actual content and provide their version of the content. This
shows that most of the time there will be issues with the authenticity of information received through
these channels and it requires further research to ensure its validity and authenticity [34]. According to
another research [35], the organizations expect their employees to respond to the emails immediately
even after working hours, due to that employee feel compelled to respond to official emails. Many
Smartphone users engage in continuous monitoring of their work related emails, which creates
compulsive routines of chronic checking and in the long run it is responsible for increased stress. There
are evidences that Smartphone usage is responsible to blur the distinctions between the work and
family life. The Smartphone causes the employees to take the work into the home domain. As a
consequence, the blurring work and family life might lead to a worsened work–family balance. In
short, the higher integration of the work and home facilitated by Smartphone result in work–home
interference (WHI), which is considered as a potential source of stress that having negative effect on
employee social and family life. Cyber bullying is another major issue the society is facing today. The
advent of Smartphone and the nature of being connected to internet anytime and anywhere is adding to
this issue and making it much severe. It enables student to access irrelevant content while at schools,
enables working community to access social Websites and other irrelevant content while at work, and
enables youth to access the Internet for inappropriate contents. This highlights minimum control from
parents and administration to prevent the users‘ access certain content on the Internet [19]. According
to another report by security industries [36], Smartphone‘s and social networking site are likely to
become the next target for criminal attacks. Security holes on several Smartphone‘s were exploited and
malicious software was found on several Smartphone‘s from different vendors.