The Impact of Mobile Applications on Society
But now the trend is changing as mobile phone users are more in number in comparison to the computer users. As mobile phone users are more in number, the marketer came up with the mobile application for the mobile phone users. It is been stated that the mobile applications use and development is rapidly growing. Hence there is a positive impact of mobile applications globally on the users. Mobile application usage in the developed country are becoming high facility for the people, thereby society of developing country are updating themselves and making a use of new type of IT infrastructure, to access the mobile application services. These mobile applications are running on a small hand held mobile device which is moveable, easy to use and accessible from anywhere and any place. Now a days, so many people are using mobile applications to contact their friends, for browsing internet, file content management, document creating and handling, entertainment etc. From everywhere and anywhere users can get the facility of mobile application. People can do many things in his daily life and business life. Not only the mobile application has an impact on the users personnel life, but also it plays an important role in business perspectives also. Many business companies are earning large amount of revenue using mobile application.
(2018, January), The Impact of Mobile Application on Society, Retrieved from https://www.bantleby.com/essay/The-Impact-of-Application-on-Society
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Can your Phone Change Your Personality Research Says Yes!
January 23, 2017
You might think your smartphone isn’t changing your personality, but research shows that isn’t true | iStock.com
Your personality is a big part of who you are. The sum of your behaviors and your tendencies form powerful patterns. So it’s no surprise your personality plays a part in the relationships you build and the career you choose. There’s a reason workplace personality testing is a pretty big industry, for better or for worse. Learning to be conscious of your personality will help you to figure out why you act (and react) the way you do. And you can probably look to your personality to learn about why you’re drawn to the jobs, activities, friendships, and relationships that you are.
After all, personality seems pretty fixed. Sure, we can learn to meditate to be a little more calm. Or we can push ourselves to take more risks in making friends or shaping our careers. Many of us would like to be more friendly or more in control of our emotions. And perhaps we’d like to be more open to new experiences. But our ability to achieve those is probably linked to what we’re working with in terms of personality. It’s unlikely we can make lasting changes to our personalities, right?
That might sound like common sense. But as we all spend more and more hours glued to our smartphones and scrolling through social media, some surprising evidence is popping up. Your beloved iPhone or Android phone may be changing your personality — at least in a few specific ways. Thought you were set in your ways and not susceptible to the more negative effects of smartphone use just because you aren’t totally addicted to your device? Think again.
Can your personality even change?
Can your personality even change in the first place? Research indicates it can | Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images
Before we go any further, let’s set the record straight. Psychologists haven’t always been in agreement on the question of whether you can change your personality. As Scott Barry Kaufman reports for The Atlantic, almost everyone has something they want to change about their personality. “But beneath theories on what drives people to change, there’s a more fundamental question debated by psychologists: Can personality even be changed in the first place?”
Researchers have concluded your personality does evolve throughout your life. A few studies have indicated people can make intentional changes to the pattern of behaviors that shape their personality. That’s a possibility particularly if you set achievable goals with concrete, specific steps. Expectations of fast and radical change are unrealistic. Kaufman notes that “it takes many years to develop patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.” It takes time to change those patterns. But doing so is very possible.
Your personality is constantly changing, even if you don’t notice
Your personality changes continually throughout your life, even if you don’t notice those changes | iStock.com
This leads us to the next interesting piece of evidence we have about how our personalities can change over the years. As John Cloud and Laura Blue report for Time, researchers suggest our personalities are constantly changing — even if we think that they (and we) are staying the same over time. Cloud and Blue note that “most people seem to believe that who they are now is pretty much who they will be forever.” They continue, “Although personality and values do tend to become more stable with age, people generally underestimate the extent of future personality shifts. The researchers call this phenomenon ‘the end of history illusion.'”
Throughout our lives, our beliefs and values change continually, and often significantly. Many of us will admit that our personalities and our preferences have changed in the past. But few of us envision how significantly those things will change in the future. “In short, people may commit errors of prediction more often than they succumb to errors of memory,” Cloud and Blue comment. In other words, we understand we’ve changed in the past. But we aren’t too comfortable with the idea we’ll continue to change in the future.
Our smartphones are changing our personalities
And your smartphone can make some changes to your personality, too | Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images
We probably all like to think that when our personalities and our behaviors change, they’re changing for the better. But that may not always be true in a world where we’re addicted to our apps and slaves to our smartphones. As Nicole Charky reports for ATTN:, a researcher from MIT posits that thanks to our dependence on our phones, “we are losing some of our ability to tap into natural, personal experiences, like solitude and empathy.” The upshot? Our smartphones are definitely changing our personalities.
When we’re busy checking our Facebook feeds every few minutes or scrolling through Instagram shots, we’re engaging in fewer of the interactions and thought processes that, traditionally, help us to understand and value empathy and solitude. Our smartphones make us less emotionally present, whether we’re with other people or enjoying a moment by ourselves. Over time, that affects our ability to understand who we are and how we relate to others. That’s not a personality change that anyone would be excited to see.
Our smartphones make us less likely to trust others
For instance, your smartphone makes you less likely to trust others | iStock.com
It makes sense our phones make us less empathetic with others. But others have noted the personality changes may go further. Kostadin Kushlev reports for The Conversation your smartphone may make you less likely to trust other people, such as when you’re traveling somewhere new and need directions to a museum or recommendations for where to stop for lunch. Casual social interactions with strangers are important in building a sense of community and connection. And the bonds between members of a society play a role in economic growth. People who trust others tend to have better health and a higher level of well-being, too.
The more often we use our phones to get information, the less we trust strangers. And the effect applies not only to our trust in strangers, but also to our trust in our neighbors, in people of other religions, and in people of other nationalities. (Fortunately, the effect doesn’t seem to apply to our trust in our friends and family.) Kushlev hypothesizes, “It could be that by substituting screen time for interactions with strangers, we are forgoing opportunities to build a general sense of trust in others.”
People judge our personalities based on our smartphone use
And your smartphone usage makes it easy for others to make assumptions about your personality, too | iStock.com/nd3000
Our smartphone use changes the way we perceive others. But it also changes the way others judge us and assess our personalities. Shana Lebowitz reports for Business Insider people notice if you check your messages or scroll through Facebook during a conversation, and they use that behavior to make judgments about your personality. Lebowitz explains that “some recent scientific research suggests that it is possible to draw inferences about someone’s personality based on his relationship to his phone.”
People who are emotionally unstable are likely to constantly check their phones to boost their moods. Materialism is another personality trait that’s associated with smartphone addiction. And people who are either impulsive or have trouble concentrating on the task at hand are also likely to find it difficult to stop checking their phones. In the same way people use your behavior on Facebook to make judgments about your personality, they’re probably pretty well-attuned to how your personality has changed since having a smartphone in your pocket at all times.
Bolluyt J., (2017, January), Can your Phone Change Your Personality Research Says Yes Retrieved from https://www.cheatsheet.com/gear-style/can-your-phone-change-your-personality-research-says-yes.html/
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Apple or Android? Here's What your Phone Choice Can Reveal About Your Personality
Researchers have linked certain personality traits to different smartphone users.
A quick glance at your smartphone can reveal quite a bit about your personality. You’ve set a wallpaper that makes you happy, downloaded apps revealing what’s important to you, and picked which of those applications get prominent positions and notifications. Even scrolling through your playlists reveals secrets your favorite music says about you.
But before you got started personalizing your phone, you had to pick the device itself. And your phone choice itself could predict aspects of your personality, found a University of Lincoln’s School of Psychology and Lancaster University study.
“Smartphone choice is the most basic level of smartphone personalization, and even this can tell us a lot about the user,” said Heather Shaw, researcher of the doctoral study presented at the British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section’s annual conference, in a press release.
The first part of the study looked into general perceptions of iPhone and Android users, and a second part examined if those stereotypes held up.
In the initial survey, 240 British participants ranked Android users as more open, agreeable, humble, and honest, while judging iPhone owners as more extroverted. (Read more about the hidden strengths of extroverts and hidden strengths of introverts.)
A follow-up personality test of 530 iPhone and Android users, though, found that most of those expectations didn’t reflect reality. More Android users were found to be honest and humble than iPhone users, as the volunteers had guessed, but the other assumptions weren’t accurate.
The researchers did, however, find other personality differences between Apple and Android. Those with iPhones rated owning a high-status phone as more important than Android users did. Plus, more Android users avoided similarity, suggesting they don’t want to have the same product as other people. Women were also twice as likely to have an iPhone over an Android in the study.
“It is becoming more and more apparent that smartphones are becoming a mini digital version of the user,” Shaw has said, “and many of us don’t like when other people use our phones because it can reveal so much about us.”
Marissa L. (n.d.), Apple or Android? Here’s What Your Phone Choice Can Reveal About Your Personality, Retrieved from https://www.rd.com/culture/apple-android-personality/
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The Importance of Mobile Applications in Everyday Life!
The importance of mobile phones in our everyday life and activities is undeniably unending. This is so because there is ongoing tremendous transformation in that mobile phones are no longer the ordinary communication device it used to be. It has become the colossal point of attention for individuals and businesses alike, courtesy of the various incredible features and opportunities that mobile phones offer. The cumulative progress of mobile technology, the availability and access to high speed internet and the remarkable communicative interface in these devices results into a whole level of new and innovative experience mobile computing. This is made possible through the development of mobile applications (mobile apps).
Today, the availability of mobile apps is on the increase such that it is produce a noticeable change in the way humans feel and experience computing. Few years ago, in other to access the internet, check and read mails, one had to use the computer but today this has changed because computing is now carried everywhere in mobile phones. Imagine buying a train ticket on the go, this is something our ancestors never imagined or did. Imagine not going to the bank but still transfer money to family and friends. All thanks to app developers and top app development companies. No matter which, they have come to the rescue enabling easy life.
Oza H., (2017, March), The Importance of Mobile Applications in Everyday Life!, Retrieved from https://www.hyperlinkinfosystem.com/blog/the-importance-of-mobile-applications-in-everyday-life
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What is Mobile App?
A mobile app is a software application developed specifically for use on small, wireless computing devices, such as smartphones and tablets, rather than desktop or laptop computers.
Mobile apps are designed with consideration for the demands and constraints of the devices and also to take advantage of any specialized capabilities they have. A gaming app, for example, might take advantage of the iPhone'saccelerometer.
Mobile apps are sometimes categorized according to whether they are web-based or native apps, which are created specifically for a given platform. A third category, hybrid apps, combines elements of both native and Web apps. As the technologies mature, it's expected that mobile application development efforts will focus on the creation of browser-based, device-agnosticWeb applications.
Rouse J., (n.d.), What is Mobile App? Retrieved from https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/mobile-app
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The Impact of Mobile Phone's Lives
BY AARON SMITH
In an effort to examine the broader impact of mobile devices on people’s lives, we presented cell phone owners with six separate impacts that might result from mobile phone ownership and these impacts were equally balanced between positive and negative ones. These responses indicate that mobile users see mostly positive benefits to mobile technologies — but also some drawbacks related to the constant connectivity (and mental temptations) that cell phones offer.
When it comes to the positive impacts of cell phone ownership, fully two-thirds (65%) of cell owners say that mobile phones have made it “a lot” easier to stay in touch with the people they care about, while just 6% say that their phone has not improved their connections with friends and family at all. Roughly half of cell owners say that their phone has made it at least somewhat easier to plan and schedule their daily routine, and to be productive while doing things like sitting in traffic or waiting in line.
When it comes to the “dark side” of cell phone ownership, roughly one in five cell owners say that their phone has made it at least somewhat harder to forget about work at home or on the weekends; to give people their undivided attention; or to focus on a single task without being distracted. A majority of cell owners say that their phone has had no impact at all on their life in any of these negative ways.
Compared with their elders, younger cell owners are especially attuned to both the positive and negative impacts of mobile connectivity. Low- and high-income cell owners also have divergent attitudes towards the benefits and challenges posed by ubiquitous mobility. Those from higher income households are more likely to say that their cell phone makes it easier to schedule their daily routine, and to be productive throughout the day. At the same time, cell owners with a household income of more than $75,000 per year are significantly more likely than other cell owners to say that their phone makes it harder to disconnect from the demands of the workplace. Some 17% of these high-income earners say that their phone makes it “a lot” harder to do this (compared with 7% for those earning less than $30,000 per year, 6% for those earning $30,000-$49,999, and 8% for those earning $50,000-$74,999). Overall, nearly one third (29%) of high-income cell owners say that their phone makes it at least somewhat harder to disconnect from work at home and on the weekends.
One third of cell owners say that overall, their cell phone saves them time — while just 3% say it costs them time.
Overall, cell owners are far more likely to view their phone as a time-saver than as a time-waster. Some 33% of cell owners agree with the statement that their phone “saves you time because you can always access the information you need,” while just 3% agree with the statement that their phone “costs you time because you are constantly distracted or interrupted.” The largest proportion of cell owners (56%) say that the time costs and time savings offered by cell phones pretty much balance each other out.
Smartphone owners have especially positive attitudes towards their phones’ time-saving capabilities. Some 44% of smartphone owners say that their phone saves them time because they can access the information they need at all times—double the 20% of non-smartphone owners who say the same. And despite saying that their cell phone makes it hard to escape the demands of employment, cell owners with high levels of income and education are generally quite positive about the time-saving capabilities of their mobile devices. Some 42% of cell owners with a college degree (and 43% of those with an annual household income of $75,000 or more) say that their cell phone saves them time overall, a significantly higher percentage than those with lower levels of income or education.
Smith A. , (2012, November), Part III: The Impact of Mobile Phone’s Lives, Retrieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/11/30/part-iii-the-impact-of-mobile-phones-on-peoples-lives/
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