Mobile Phone usage among Teenagers

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Mobile Phone usage among Teenagers

A stethoscope is the safest in a doctors hands, a sailor knows best to use a magnetic compass, a ‘t’ scale fits the best in the hands of an engineer, but a mobile phone is for anyone and everyone who can manage to get their hands on. For a toddler it is yet another toy, little does he know the difference between a toy and this gadget, for a pre teen it is an equipment worth experimenting upon, for teenagers it has become part of their daily lives, for people in their twenties it is something they cannot do without, for adults it has become a luxury, a status symbol more than a necessity and the aged consider it an emergency device, that helps when they are in need. Statistics is proof enough of the fact that the people of all age groups around the globe are using mobile phones.

Global warming, psychological trouble and other health problems caused by usage of these gadgets has indeed taken a back seat. Similarly mobile phones have proved to be like a friend in need is a friend in deed on various counts, but the question about what age group of people need make use of this gadget, requires a serious thought.

This study aims at bringing to light teenagers’ mobile phone usage habits at large. It first classifies the various types of teenage mobile users as those who have a mobile phone to themselves, teens who borrow their family members or friends mobile phone when in need and teenagers who use their family members or friends mobile phones on and off.

The intention of the following research is to throw light on the teenagers’ usage patterns of mobile phones in detail, going by factors such as gender, educational and domestic background, performance in academics and extra curricular activities of the teenagers. Media usage habits of teenagers have also been brought to the limelight through this research.

Also the study draws a comparison of the teenage users and non users of mobile phone. Just like people who eat meat and flesh of animals are called non vegetarians and those who do not, called as vegetarians, this research also makes an attempt to coin a term for teenage users and non users of mobile phone.

Place and time have been the motivating factors driving this research. Place because India is the only country in the world that boasts of low mobile tariffs and time because we have reached a stage where every other person around us owns or uses a mobile phone, irrespective of age, gender, economic background and other factors. The research study focuses on teenagers only to draw a conclusion to the argument if they should or they shouldn’t use a mobile phone. Early teens are the ones who are not on their own financially and above all legal procedures in the country do not give them to authority to use a mobile phone in their name. Moreover state governments across the nation have banned the usage of mobile phones in educational institutions. Despite all of this teenagers manage to have a mobile phone to themselves. These are the few factors among many covered in the research.