Age of the Smartphones

Technology has advanced at a scary fast speed and by scary fast i mean one day technology controlling the world! No but seriously if you think about it technology has already taken over the world.The last 5-6 years can easily be described as "The Age of the Smartphones". Almost every person on the planet owns a smartphone whether it be an iPhone or an android, cheap or expensive, a smartphone never the less.

Of approximately the 14 hours that a person is awake , he/she spends at least 8 hours looking at a phone screen. Phones have taken over our lives. This can be greatly due to social media being so easily accessible right on your phone. Just think about it. Every time you're bored or in an awkward place or position you automatically turn towards your phone. With all this time being spent on smartphones , people have started to discard their notebooks and laptops as the smartphones coming these days can accomplish any task thrown at them as easily as a laptop would. OK that is a bit of an exaggeration but still smartphones are becoming very powerful. My laptop has 4gb of ram and an android phone has 6gb of it. You see what i mean!

People have also started to use their phones for payment with services like android pay and Samsung pay as well as apple pay. Hence all our bank account details are on our smartphones which we carry everywhere with us. How safe really is that? Even if these services are Hacker proof who's to say that our smartphone wont get stolen.

Then comes the question of privacy. How safe is it to store personal details and share pretty much everything going on with our lives on the internet? Even if you think that you have turned on all those privacy settings so no one can see your info , where do you think that info is stored? On a server somewhere in the world, that's where. And even if that server is owned by a trusted company how can you safely say that one day that company wouldn't use your personal info for their personal gains if it comes to that.

Smartphones can be very useful if used correctly but there are several security issues associated with them as well as mentioned above and even  more! Use your phones wisely.