With the development of technology, smart phones now play an important role in our daily life. Each of us may have the experience of leaving the phone somewhere else. How do you feel about it? Do you have the feeling that you have lost your connection() to the world?
Last week, researchers from Hong Kong warned that "Nomophobia"(无手机焦虑症)is increasingly influencing us. The study finds that Nomophobia influences both teenagers and adults. Also, it shows people who use their phones to share personal memories are most influenced.
Researchers also find the users prefer to use words such as "worry" and "unpleasantness" to describe their feelings. And these feelings won't disappear until their phones are back in their hands again. At the same time, their body examinations show that smartphone separation(分离) can lead to an increase in blood pressure.
What interests researchers most is what causes people to have Nomophobia. "The findings of our study suggest that if people always consider smartphones as a part of their selves," said Dr. Kim Ki Joon." It will be easy for them to have Nomophobia and experience some bad feelings."
According to Professor Mark Griffiths, the social network on the phone creates Fomo (fear of missing information). And it is Fomo that creates Nomophobia. For example, if people can't use WeChat or QQ, they become worried about not knowing what's going on socially for the moment.
"But people can feel less worried about being separated from phones, if you take them on holiday and there's no internet," says Griffiths. According to him, for people who have the problem of Nomophobia, what they need is some talk with chances, chances to travel in the real world, chances to read interesting ideas in paper books, and chances to talk with friends face to face. After all, although phones may hold many details of our lives, the world they provide us is only part of the real world.