Is the Mobile Phone a Blessing or a Curse?

With the development of Chinese society and technology, more and more people have owned at least one cell phone. It seems that the mobile phone has become an indispensable part in our life. Every day I can see nearly everyone holds a cell phone in hand at my university or at street. And what do they do with their mobile phones? Most of them just bow their heads and play games or login QQ to kill time. Hence, I am wondering a very serious question: "is the mobile phone a blessing or a curse?"

My point of view about this question is that the mobile phone can be either a blessing or a curse and it just depends on your choice about how to use it.

To many people, the mobile phone is a great blessing. Nowadays, the mobile phone combines many functions in one, especially the smartphone. If you have a mobile phone, it means you may have a digital camera, a carry-on library or even a cinema with you. In other words, you can take pictures anytime anywhere as long as you want to; you may read any novels or essays with the help of your mobile phone; you can even download and watch your favorite movie or the latest film on your cell phone. But the powerful functions of the cell phone are far more than these. It is much easier for us to communicate with our family members, friends or business partners, especially when we are far away from each other. What's more, we can login the internet to grasp the up-to-date information to keep pace with the development of our times. An obvious merit of mobile phone is that it is a tool for us to kill time when we are waiting for a bus or anytime we feel boring. Also, we may use our mobile phones to do some studying. Moreover, we can make a phone call to others to ask for help in an emergency. For businessmen, they can check their e-mails or make telephone conferences by their mobile phones.

However, the mobile phone has some shortcomings despite of its merits. The most intuitive and most direct weakness of the mobile phone is the radiation, which does great harm to human beings. I remember vividly a video I've watched before. The main content of the video is that a man put four mobile phones together on a table with the shape of a cross and then he put some corn kernels in the center of the four mobile phones. After that, four people called these mobile phones at the same time. An amazing thing happened----the radiation changed the corn kernels into the popcorns. How terrible the mobile phones' radiation is! A scientific research showed that if someone uses mobile phone everyday frequently and always put the mobile phone near his head, he is increasing the chance of developing cancer. What's more, people have to bow their heads, stare at the screen and keep the posture for a long time while they are using mobile phones to play games or surf online. It may cause spinal kyphoscoliosis or eyestrain. In brief, using the mobile phone frequently will lead to some physical problems.