Social well-being

• Companies release new technology regularly and pay for advertisements to promote it - doing this influences and pressures people into buying or upgrading to the latest device
• Technology has increased peer pressure - Children feel pressure to own the latest device for fear of being bullied by their peers - And parents feel pressured into buying them
• Smartphones make it easier for people's work to intrude with other areas of life
• Employees may be expected to carry a smartphone all the time so that they can always be contacted - the smartphone may beep each time they get a work e-mail - This can be stressful for employees who feel they can never really switch off from work
• Face to face social interaction can be neglected as more of our social lives move online - This is made worse by having the Internet on mobile devices - It's now almost possible to ignore real life completely