No Texting at Night, No Hurting Your Eye

Have you ever wondered why your memory is failing?

It probably depends on how much time you sleep at night. If you already realized that you are texting late at night and using your phone before falling asleep chronically, you should realize that you are addicted to the internet too. Most people nowadays are addicted with the internet, but it is is really affecting our life, such as loss of sleep, lower grades and physical effects.

   Texting at night is really affecting our sleep. Especially for teens, checking Instagram and Facebook before sleeping is becoming similar to a job. People who use their phone at night usually sleep less than those who don’t. The bedtime cell phone use usually causes insomnia. Keyes noted that “the increased internet or social media use and pressures due to the heightened competitiveness of the college admissions process are adding to the sleep problem.” The loss of sleep is often the first sign of internet addiction and it causes sleeping disorders such as sleep deprivation, insomnia, and daytime sleepiness.

    The loss of sleep in order to text late at night is also affecting our grades.The study of STRICT showed that about 55 percent of students use their phone before sleeping at least on hour, and 20 of them use more than 3 hours. And most of them said it was impacting their school work. The researcher from Rutgers University led a study and showed that there is big a difference in school performance depending on the time that students text on their phone. Students who text longer at night in the dark before sleeping usually sleep only few hours and they usually remain sleepy during the day. And the daytime sleepiness affects the efficiency of school working and concentration in the classes obviously.

   Texting late at night is not only affecting our sleeping qualities and grades, but also our health. After texting late at night, most people would put the phone next to or under their pillows. But don’t you know that the phone radiations are harming you unknowingly? According to the scientific literature, the RF of the phone causes the body to send 20 kinds of stress hormones, which can trigger blood-brain barrier leaks and the break of DNA etc… And also dizziness,headaches and the falling of memory, which affects school grades too. The light from the phone screens, which is called blue light, interferes with our bodies’ natural rhythm a lot.

   In conclusion, the first great merit of social networks is undoubtedly to facilitate the communication between people who are in different places in the world, but what we could do is to control our phone use time and try not to text before we go to sleep. It is better for us student to sleep at least 9 hours per day to make sure the school work efficiency and our body growth and development.




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