I almost answered too quickly but the words “overall” and “society” made me change my mind.
The effect varies based on the “individual”. It’s been a positive for me but when I think about “society” (as in everybody) it’s clearly negative. The iPhone was a great advancement for e-commerce and what I would call “convenience tech”, but we have to ask ourselves if those factors outweigh the extreme uptick in mental disorders since its release in 2007. iPhone also was the 1st piece of tech that literally shamed people for using any alternatives lol.
Back to the mental health, smartphones even have their own signature disorders nowadays like “doomscrolling anxiety” and “TikTok tics”.
Excuse the rant lol…
We are all becoming doom scrollers these days haha
It's definitely having an overall negative affect on our mental health.
yea it’s a struggle lol