Raising population of cell phone addiction
From a historical perspective, cell phone addiction was showed up at many magazines and newspaper since the smart phone was invented, iphone and blackberry is too popular to resist. Even President Obama was said to be addicted to his Blackberry.(3) Nevertheless, there is some arguments point out that people only use mobile phone for contacting and researching, even though sometimes they went to social networking is just for relaxed, there is no need to be worried about cell phone addiction could have the bad affect to people. In fact, people now are not only using cell phone for calling or texting, also, even the more of them are using cell phone to play games. According to Keith Stuart, who is the famous reporter from the Guardian newspaper, said, “There are over 14 million out of 37 million cell phone subscribers in Korea play mobile games. To put it another way, four out of every 10 people are mobile gamers. More specifically, 2.3 million play mobile games every day, accounting for 6.2 percent of the total cell phone subscribers, including 15 percent of cell phone users in their teens and twenties.”(4) We can see how high the rate of mobile game addicts is. People in 21st century are using more time to play games instead of doing regular calling, most of them are teenagers, they are young and passion, once they are attacked by the new technology, they could no longer be controlled, going to deep to the mobile games would definitely harm you, the same as gambling and drug, they might lost the ability to pull themselves out.