ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF NON  COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE

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• Take Crime Photos

  Take a picture of your stalker. With a camera phone, assailants know they will be caught if they accost you. You will be able to take a picture of them and email it to the police within seconds of being mugged. So keep your local authority's phone number and email address handy for quick retrieval through your cell phone.

• Games, Music and Videos                                                                                       Most mobile phones today are equipped with the capability to store music, video and games, which can help you relax when you need to take a break. You can load your favorite songs on your phone and play them whenever you want. According to the Pew Research Center, the use of non-voice data applications on mobile phones has grown significantly. It reports that 33 percent of mobile phone owners are likely to play music, 34 percent to play games and 34 percent to record a video. This means a rise of from 7 percentage points (playing games) to 15 percentage points (recording a video) in a single year.

• Control Over Phone Use

  Cell phones also give parents the ability to control a teen's phone use. Prepaid plans require parents to purchase new minutes, which a teen will need to budget over the course of a month or more. In addition, giving a teen a personal cell phone will free up the home phone line for other important calls.Only use for taking picture and making video not messaging or  calling so save their budgets.

  
  

                                                   

                                                            DISADVANTAGES

• Physical Pain                                                                                                   Extensive cell phone usage can actually contribute to physical pain, in the form of "cell phone elbow." Holding the cell phone to your ear for long periods of time pinches the nerve that controls your pinky and ring fingers, causing them to tingle and go numb. Prolonged injury could result in nerve damage. To prevent this, change arms while chatting and don't keep your arm bent for long periods.
• Negative Health Effects?                                                                              For years, the debate regarding cell phones and their potential negative health effects has raged on.Claims have been made that cell phones cause cancer, infertility, birth defects, and a host of other dramatically detrimental physical problems. In 2011, after reviewing a variety of peer-reviewed studies, the World Health Organization listed cell phones as a "possibly" carcinogenic hazard to humans, without finding conclusive evidence that the phones cause cancer.
• Brain Damage                                                                                                 While the safety risks of cell phone use have not been conclusively established, it is known that all cell phones emit at least a small amount of radiation. The New York Times reports that some brain surgeons always use speakerphones or headsets in order to avoid putting phones to their ears.
• Internet                                                                                                                Internet access is required to run a variety of features on cell phones today. For example to access email or social networking sites you must use the Internet. A mobile contract often includes unlimited data so you are not charged per MB transferred. Without a contract it can cost extra or high rates for data transferred.

Sleep Problems                                                                                                            At Sleep 2008, the Associated Professional Sleep Societies U.S. conference, researchers from Sahigren's Academy in Gothenburg, Sweden, presented data about sleep disruption affecting teens who used their cell phones frequently. Groups of adolescents were divided by those who made fewer than five calls or text messages daily, and those who made more than 15 per day. When studying the participants' sleep patterns, the latter group showed signs of insomnia and restlessness. Gaby Badre, MD, Ph.D., one of the study's authors, suggested limiting cell phone usage and designating cell-phone free time slots to prevent the stress associated with constant contact.

• Health Risks

  • As reported in Mail Online, the web service of the U.K newspaper Daily Mail, Dr. Gerald Hyland of the University of Warwick linked cell phone use to low-thermal radiation. Hyland warns that children are in a higher risk group "because their immune systems are less robust and still developing" and "their skulls are smaller and thinner and radiation was able to penetrate." The effects of this radiation on brain rhythms can result in headaches, loss of memory and trouble sleeping, he says.
  
  
  Read more: Disadvantages of Teens Using Mobile Cell Phones | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_6318271_disadvantages-using-mobile-cell-phones.html#ixzz2BBVL9aSH