Smart phone usage among college going students

Pages: 322-329
Monika, Poonam Malik, and Poonam Yadav (Department of Human Development & Family Studies, College of Home Science, CCSHAU, Hisar, Haryana)

There is a tremendous growth in telecommunication market among which smart phones are most popular now days. Youths especially college going students spent more time with smart phones. They use various smart phone brands with different features. The main objectives of the study were to assess features and pattern of smart phone usage among college going students. A sample of 60 college going students including boys and girls were selected using snow ball technique. For this study a self structured questionnaire was used after that frequencies and percentages were calculated for the analysis of data. MI was the most popular smart phone brand used by college going students with Samsung at second. 46% of the student’s smart phone cost was between 11000 to 15000 rupees. Majority of the students purchased smart phone with their own choices. Most of the students had smart phone with high battery power. 83% of the students had dual SIM but students usually use only one SIM for internet. Jio was the most used SIM in both slot 1 and 2. 73.33% of the students recharge their SIM for 3 months with the expenditure of more than 300 rupees. 68.33% of the students got 1.5 GB daily data plan. Maximum students spent 4-6 hours with smart phone which increases from 1-2 hours during holidays. More than half of the students sometimes lose sense of time and neglect work due to smart phone. 60% of the students said smart phones have negative impact on studies. Maximum students said smart phone is a necessity and they don’t feel fine with push button phone. More than half of the college going students said that life would be boring without smart phone. 60% of the students said that sometimes they sacrifice sleep to use smart phone and their eyes hurt after long use of smart phone.