CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

Do you know what is a mobile phone? Yes, mobile phone is a wireless

handeld devices that allows users to make and receive calls and to text messages,
among other features. Mobile phone may also be known as a cellular phone or
simply a cell phone.

Nowadays, a lot of people from around the world use mobile phone like
working, playing games, chat each other, etc. but some people use these mobile
phone for false uses for example some people use their mobile phones for hacking
people to know others personal data through their mobile phone or other devices.

Mobile phones have their own types such as Smart Phones, Camera Phones,
Music Phones, and 3G Phones. Mobile phones are also have their own brand /
maufacturers for example the popular one like apple phone, Samsung, but each
brand have their own uniqueness like Samsung devices are programed from
android and apple phone programed from IOS.

Here in Indonesia, people from the young to the elderly use mobile phone as
their daily activity, but some of the people in Indonesia use their mobile phone for
unpositive purposes, like watching porn or downloading it. Most of the children
these days in Indonesia use their mobile phones instead for education purposes
they use them to play games in their school days.
1.2 Problem Statements

The writer stated the problems of this study as follow:

1. Do mobile phones have massive impact towards teenagers brain?

2. Does mobile phones ruin teenagers education in their schools?
3. What are the benefits of mobile phone towards teenagers brain?
1.3 Limitation of the Study

Based on the problems above, the writer has several objectives of the study as
follows :

1. What are the effects of mobile phones towards teenagers brain?

1.4 Objectives of the Study

Through this research, the writer has several objectives of the study. There are :

1. To know mobile phones have more or less effect towards teenagers brain.
2. To find out what are the effects of mobile phones towards teenagers brains.
3. To find out any benefits of mobile phones towards teenagers brain.
1.5 Benefits of the Study

In writing this reaserch paper, te writer believes that this study has benefits as
follows :

1. To inform the readers that mobile phones can effect teenagers brain.
2. To inform the readers what the effects of mobile phones towards teenagers
brain.
3. To inform the reader to use mobile phone lesser than usual.
 CHAPTER II

THEORITICAL REVIEW

2.1 Underlying Theory

According to reaserchers from Imperial College London, teenagers that have

a mobile phone can developed a brain cancer. The following is one of the effects of
mobile phones towards teenagers brain, using too much mobile phone could be
severe to people especially for teenagers, because they use their phone for
everything for 24/7 they may be affected by one of the effects from mobile phone.
in conclusion mobile phone can be dangerous and very severe to whom that using
it incorrectly.

2.2 Defenition of Mobile Phone

According to the technopedia, mobile phone is a wireless handheld device

that allows users to make and receive calls and to send text messages, among
others features. Also that mobile phone can be mention as “a wireless device that
can do anything for the users”.

It can be concluded that mobile phone is a object that we can use for
everything as the user pleased.

2.3 Types of Mobile Phones

As written in types.org.uk, there are different types of mobile phone as

follow:
 a. Smart phones
Smart phones are high specification phones that operate like miniature
computers. They can usually do task like connect to the internet and
receive emails.
b. Camera Phones
Camera phones come with builet in camera. Some new camera phones
are reaching the 12 megapixels mark, through a standard model will
frequently between 2 and 8 megapixels.
c. Music phones
Music phones will ideally have good mp3/ aac audio player and
enough memory to hold a reasonable amount of songs. Always to
make sure that you’re phone has plenty of onboard/included memory,
or is upgradeable to have more memory via SD/ memory card slot.
Ideally you will want at least 1-2Gb, though it is possible to get up to
16Gb.

d. 3G Phones
Phone designed to work on the 3G sytem. 3G opens up faster
communication and browsing speed. Phones frequently feature
internet browsing and video call.

2.4 The Effects of Mobile Phones

The Writer though that it is important from the effect of mobile phones
towards teenagers brains, here are some of the effects of mobile phones towards
teenagers brain :
 Brain Cancer
 Slow Thinking
 Ruin nervous systems
 Headaches
 Decreased attention to others
 Shortness of temper
 Sleep disorders
 And Depression
 CHAPTER III

REASERCH METHOD

3.1 Reaserch Design

In this study, the writer choose qualitive as the method of study. Qualitively
has been chosen by the writer because its suitable with the objecttives of study
as follow; to know what are the effects of mobile phone and benefits towards
teenagers brain.

3.2 Object of The Study

The data in this study are collected by study my friend from my school to
my neighborhood. The number of my friends are 15 people both men and
women.

3.3 Data Source

The data is made by question. Then, analyzed the results and presented it in
chart.

3.4 Techniques of Collecting Data

To collect the data, the writer statted with make 15 questions about the
effects of mobile phones towards teenaers brain. Then, write it in the Google Form
Questionnaire. The last distribute the link to the writers friend respondents.

3.5 Techniuques of Analyzing Data

After get the results, the writer start to analyze and classify it by the effects
of mobile phones towards teenagers brain.
 CHAPTER IV

RESULTS

4.1 Questionare Results

Do you know what is a mobile phone?

Yes
100%
No
Maybe

Chart 1

From the chart above, it can be said that 15 people knows what is a mobile
phone, it is obiviously people know what is a mobile phone.
 Do mobile phone are important in our daily
life?

20%

Yes
No
Maybe

80%

Chart 2

From the chart above, it can be said that 12 people think mobile phone are
important in our daily life. Meanwhile 3 people think mobile phone maybe
important in our daily life.
 Are you using a mobile phone?

6,7%

Yes
No
Maybe

93,3%

Chart 3

Almost all of the 15 people using mobile phone, only 1 person who maybe
using a mobile phone, I think that he/she don’t sure what kind mobile phone he/she
meant.
 What kind of mobile phone do you have?

7%
7% Samsung
20%
Iphone
7%
Xiomi
Huawei
13% Sony
Oppo
Vivo
46% I don’t have a smart phone

Chart 4

In this chart kind of mobile phone they have is based on the chart that, 7 people
have a Iphone, 3 people have a Samsung, 2 people have a Xiomi, 1 person have a
Sony, 1 person have a Oppo, and one person have a Vivo.
 How often do you use you're mobile phone?

20%
27%
A lot
Often
Sometimes
Rarely
Never

53%

Chart 5

From the chart above, 8 people use their phone often, 4 people use their
mobile phone a lot, and 3 people sometimes use their mobile phone. It can be
conclude that people use their mobile phone a lot than usual.
 What do you use you're phone for?

7% 7%
7%
Social media
Chatting
Learning
Video call
All of the above
Look at the screen

79%

Chart 6

In this chart we can conclude that, 12 people use their phone for
everything, 1 person use his/her phone for chatting, 1 person use his/her phone for
social media, and 1 person use his/her phone just to look at the screen.
 Do you know that in our country we are in
the top 10 of the mobile phone user in the
world

27%
39% Yes
No
Maybe I should look it up

34%

Chart 7

Indonesia is 6th in the top 10 of mobile phone user by 236,800,000 users

in our own country. 4 people know about this fact, 5 people don’t know about this
fact, and 6 people don’t know about this fact but they want to look it up in the
internet.
 Do you know are the effects of mobile
phones?

19%

Yes
No
17%
Maybe
64%

Chart 8

In this chart we concluded that 10 people already know the effects of mobile
phone, 4 people maybe know the effects, and 1 person don’t know the effects.
What are The effects of it from the previous question? (if you answer
yes)

Radiation
decrease our visionary eye, make our eyes turn red
forget about time
disturbing your work
Idk
Addictive and tires eyes
i answer maybe
Using mobile phone for too long can cause tumor growth, stress, and another disease
Forget about time
No
i answered maybe
Brain damages
Easily distracted
I didn’t answered yes

Chart 9

This is the question for people who answered yes some of the effect are
negative according to them.
What will you do if you're friend or you're family got one of the effect
from mobile phones and why?

wear sunglasses, limited time of using the mobile phone

give them the warning if mobile phone is too dangerous
i’ll help them
For me, I will reduce my use of mobile phone and for the one who already got the effect, I will try to
remind them to use it rarely.
Kill them
suggest wearing glasses or do lasik surgery. Because it can help to see
We have to help him by taking his cellphone and talking to him and play with him
idk what kind of effect?
Go to hospital and get treatments
Tell them to use less mobile phone
Rest
try to convince them to use less of tgose mobule phones
Stop them to use Mobile phone
Tell them to not to use phone a lot
Maybe i will give them some information about the effect from mobile phone and try to give advice for
dont use mobile phone too much

Chart 10

This is a question about what will they do if one of their friend or family got
one of the effects from moble phone.
 Does mobile phone bring more positive
effect or negative effect?

8%
Positive

39% Negative
23%

Both

Maybe because verything have

bad effect and good effect
30%

Chart 11

This chart 5 people think mobile phone bring more positive effect instead
of negative effect, 4 people think bring more negative effect than positive effect, 3
people think both positive and negative have the same the effect, and 1 person
think everything have bad and good effect.
 What kind of positive effect you got from
you're mobile phone?
Chat you're friend or teacher
if you missunderstood what
are the teacher saying

Always know what happen in

What kind of positive effect you
the outside world
got from you're mobile phone?

Know a lot of informaiton

0 5 10 15

Chart 12

In this part, the writer has been asked to the people what are the positive
effect from mobile phone, this chart it can be said that 14 people chose know a lot
of information, 10 people chose always know what is happening in the outside
world and 9 people chose chat you’re friend or teacher if you misunderstood what
are the teacher saying. This chart people can answer more than one statement.
 What kind of negative effect that you got
from you're mobile phone?

Tired eyes

Slow thinking
What kind of negative effect
that you got from you're mobile
Getting lazy phone?

Illness

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Chart 13

The chart concluded that people who use their phone got the negative effect is
tired eyes and getting lazy, but some are slow thinking and illness.
 Do you agree that we must use less of mobile
phone?
7

4
Do you agree that we must use
3 less of mobile phone?

0
1 2 3 4 5

Chart 14

This chart is about a how will the people agree or disagree about using less
mobile phone, most of the people very agree to this statement.
What do you think about the effects from mobile phone towards
teenagers brain?

gadgets are like drug to teenagers nowadays

dangerous
it will ruin your brain
It is really bad
It will . . . Umm idk. Skip
I think that teenagers now is lazier than our parents and make us to search in internet than book
Getting lazy
idk maybe it stops from improving?
The radiation of the mobile phone can cause brain cancer. Especially teenagers and children
The effect are bad so we must use less mobile phone
Ita not good bro
i think that we must know our limits about using mobile phones.
Make them lazy
Our brain is affected by the radiation
I think its too dangerous

Chart 15

This chart the writer ask the people what do they think about the effects from
mobile phone towards teenagers brain, most of them think mobile phone bring
more negative.
 CHAPTER V

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusion

15 from 15 people using are a mobile phone. Some know about the effects
from their mobile phone. It can be proved by 15 people who have realized how can
be severe that mobile phone effects towards teenagers brain.

In this research, the writer found the effects of mobile phone towards
teenagers brain. It has been chosen by the people, the writer concludes there are the
effects from mobile phone towards teenagers brain as follow; (1) it can bring brain
cancer,(2) it can make you lazy,(3) it can reduce you’re concentrasion,(4) it can
make you blind due to radiation,(5) it can make you forget things imprortant or
not.

Last but not least, all of the people who uses mobile phone know the effects
of mobile phones.

5.2 Suggestions

As written above, the effects of mobile phone towards teenagers brain. The
effects towards teenagers brain can be dangerous and very severe if using it
abusively. The writer suggest to not just teenagers but all the readers to use less
mobile phone in order to reduce the effects from mobile phone towards teenagers
brain.

For the next researcher, the writer suggest to analyze more about the effects
of mobile phone towards teenagers brain. For example,
 ATTACHMENTS

THE EFFECT OF MOBILE PHONE TOWARDS TEENAGERS

BRAIN

1. Do you know what is a mobile phone?

a. Yes
b. No
2. Do mobile phone are important in our daily life?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe
3. Are you using a mobile phone?
a. Yes
b. Maybe
c. No
4. What kind of mobile phone do you have?
a. Samsung
b. Iphone
c. Xiomi
d. Huawei
e. Sony
f. Oppo
g. Vivo
h. I don’t have a mobile phone
5. How often do you use you’re mobile phone?
a. A lot
b. Often
c. Sometimes
d. Rarely
e. Never
6. What do you use you’re mobile phone for?
a. Social media
b. Chatting
c. Learning
d. Video call
e. All of the above
7. Do you know that in our country we are in the top 10 of the mobile phone
users in the world?
a. Yes
b. No
c. Maybe I should look it up
8. Do you know are the effects of mobile phones?
a. Yes
b. Maybe
c. No
9. What are the effects of it from the previous question ( if you answer yes)
10.What will you do if you’re friend or you’re family got one of the effect from
mobile phone?
11.Does mobile phone bring more positive effect or negative effect?
a. Positif
b. Negative
12.What kind of positive effect you got from you’re mobile phone?
a. Know a lot of information
b. Always know what happen in the outside world
c. Chat you’re friend or teacher if you misunderstood what are the teacher
saying
13. What kind of negative effect you got from your’re mobile phone?
a. Tired eyes
b. Slow thinking
c. Getting lazy
d. Others
14. Do you agree that we must use less of mobile phone?
a. Very disagree
b. Disagree
c. I don’t know
d. Agree
e. Very agree
15.What do you think about the effects from mobile phone towards teenagers
brain?