The smartphone is becoming more and more popular nowadays as its user-friendly design and convenient multi-function. Nearly all people, including elderly and children, in Hong Kong have their own smartphone. Nevertheless, should the smartphone be owned by a young child? Since smartphone brings lots negative effect to children on learning, social and health, the children should not be allowed to own a smartphone.
The problem of smartphone brings on children has long been concerned by schools. Lots of secondary and primary schools are not allowed their students to bring the phone to school because phones take their attention away from their lessons and destroy discipline. Students who bring their phone to school violate the school regulation and their phones will be confiscated by the teacher. This rule does not only focus on a smartphone as it has been set for a long time, and there were not smartphone when the rule set. The smartphone has much more functions and applications which lead to a bigger influence on students' concentration on the study.