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Mobile phones are used both for work and personal phone calls every time a day, every day of the week. Do you think it makes more positive or negative effects both for individuals?

In this modern age, numerous individuals use cellphones for both business and personal purposes on a daily basis. This essay will examine both the merits and drawbacks of this phenomenon and elucidate the reason why it may be more disadvantageous.

Admittedly, the most obvious benefit of using a mobile phone no matter the user is at home or in the workplace is that it enables instant communication by eliminating the limitation of distance, which is helpful and may even be life-saving especially when urgent situations occur. Taking cardiologists as an example, they are on-call almost 24 hours a day in case of an emergency happening. Mobile phones help them to be contacted out of the hospital immediately after a patient’s heart condition suddenly deteriorates and to go back to save within the best rescue time.

However, anything that is used in excess can result in negative outcomes. Involving mobile phones in nearly every aspect of individuals’ daily lives cause constant interruption to them. On the one hand, if someone always picks up work related calls when having bounding time with families or friends, those people who are with them may have a sense of not being respected and hence feel uncomfortable. On the other hand, important tasks may be delayed if employees procrastinate because of addictively checking social media applications on their phones.

In addition, over-depending on cellphones impedes people’s capabilities to interact with others in the real life, which is detrimental for different relationships they have. The quality of a get-together may be affected by many factors such as body languages and facial expressions like hugging and smiling, and these ways to express individuals’ emotions cannot be achieved by purely talking through phones. If these experiences are less practiced and replaced by only verbal and virtual communication, mobile phones act as the hindrances of people’s real life interaction  

In conclusion, like any other electronic devices, cellphones have both advantages and disadvantages. Notwithstanding of the fact that mobiles allow people to be reached in the time of emergency, they may still be more harmful by causing distractions and inhibits people’s relationships.