Cell phone addiction could be hard to explain or define based on the reader’s / author’s point of view. The impact of cell phone addiction on students nowadays has taken a new turn. We have never seen any other thing that distracts students than cellphones, they have become more addicted to their cellphones 24/7.

My own opinion on this themed topic:
Addiction is a very strong word and Cell phone is a daily important necessity. We cant do without our phones. Cellphone addiction has impacted a lot on the lives of students. They prefer you punishing them than seizing their cellphones or invading their privacy.

Most students would prefer taking online lectures just because they feel so safe with their phones than relating with the real world, even with simple laws/instruction stating that all cellphones must be silent mood activated when in class, most students break this laws and they see this as a norm.

I believe there is nothing like ‘Cellphone Addiction’ the only thing that exist is the crazy trend in social media of students wanting to frustrate the lecturers/teachers or them putting out word to their friends on social media. We have all seen one or two pictures of a friend on facebook taking pictures in class while lectures is going on, we have all seen those pictures of students cursing out their teachers on social media with captions like: ‘Lecture’s so boring, Abeg make this lecturer go, joor’. Most students believe in the imaginary world, they want to be seen as that person who doesn’t give a damn about multiple class miss, but deep down inside them they feel so bad that they are not meeting up with their mates academically.

The topic here shouldn’t be ‘Cellphone Addiction and Students Use’ it should be ‘Social Media & Students Use’. Social media is the most populous place on this earth yet no one has been there, no one has been there in the sense that everyone on social media isn’t satisfied. We all want to wear that sneakers our favourite artist wore to the grammys, yet we still want that car that E-money gave to Harrysong, still yet we still want to go on that tour with Olamide for free…Nibo ?

Social media on students is a bad influence, Facebook as an example is where Chinedu that sells spare parts is a frequent Dubai traveler, Bimpe that sells rice at Iyana Ipaja is working at Tantalizer (Ajah), Morufu the mechanic is Tory Lanez’s manager.

They all use facebook like their lives depends on it, the numbers of likes they get on a pictures determine how successful they will be in the future, the number of tags they get from another user determines how rich they are presently, everyone flaunts their wealth on facebook, so who are those complaining that Nigerians are suffering since everyone’s going to that Beach in Paris, Shoprite Ajah, everyone’s posting that their mirror shade that they took in Sheraton Hotel, Abuja.

Some even see Bobrisky as a future husband material (True) yet they see 2face has a illiterate just because he’s a father of 3children that were born outside wedlock. People are quick to criticize Tiwa Savage for reavaling a little cleavage, but they all go on Beyonce’s page to rain praises on her for that naked shoot she did for Playboy.

Most Nigerian girls see their lives in Kim Kardashian meanwhile Asa is too old to inspire or motivate some. The impact of social media on students have gone from grace to grass, riches to rags….There would be no cellphone addiction without social media.

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