Impacts of using Smartphones on youth "A study among the members of rotaract clubs in Pokhara"

Abstract

The main goal of this research is to identify the impacts of using smartphones on youth who are actively involved in Rotaract Club of Pokhara valley. It is believed that this research will be one of the most important study materials to know the impacts of smartphones on youths of society. The population in this study area is the active members of Rotaract Club of Pokhara valley. Rotaract club is the social organization who works for community, leaderships, and professionalism developments. There were 11 Rotaract clubs in Pokhara valley where five clubs were selected through lottery method, simple random sampling method. Among them there were 120 active members in those five clubs where I had used Krejcie & Morgan rules to find out standard sample size and 92 respondents were also selected from simple random sampling method. Only 75 respondents had responded on given deadline i.e. 60 days. The study was completed through descriptive research design. The self-made structured questionnaire was sent to the respondents from Google form and the data was analyzed through the Google form summary. The frequency distribution charts like bar diagram, column diagram and pie-chart are used to analyze the collected data. Most of the youth from the Rotaract Clubs had quite different response towards using smartphones. Most of the respondent’s i.e., 65.33 percentages are from age group 18 to 25 years. Most of the youth has taken the smartphones for first time at the age of 16 and most of the respondents find smartphones more comfortable means of communication. The smartphone has made the world smaller as they totally depend on it. The youth use smartphone mainly for study purpose, to get connected to their friends and relatives as well as for the entertainment purposes. Smartphones have declined the family relationship as both parents and children are busy at social sites like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok and so on. The youths of today’s time feel more comfortable in a hand device with their fingertips rather than being sociable with the people around them. xi

The major influencing factor of using smartphones are reliable, time saving, easy to use, easy to communicate, helps in study, entertainment etc.. The majority of the respondent rates smartphones very positive and they are thinking this will make everyone life much easier in coming future than today.