Mobile Addiction in the UAE

Some studies found that there are two types of addictions. The first type is drugs addiction which well known by people and the second type is behavior addiction. The idea of the addition is getting used to something and dealing with it in daily bases and unusual ways. The addiction may affect the person’s social life and behavior. Some people in the U.A.E especially teenagers like to be unique. They are interest on being a special person by new mobile phones, cars and clothes. In our time each teenager wants to get his or her own phone specially the boys. Some of them get their own phone for their necessary needs but others like to showoff. Buying new phone is a habit that may become an addiction during time. For example, my brother and my sister are uncontrollable on changing their phones when new phones arrived in the shops. They are attracted to mobiles with new technology, properties and on fashion. Although they are not working and do not have a stable income, they like changing their mobiles a lot. They also like to save and ask for money from my old sisters to be able to buy what they want. Another instance is that my sister’s husband likes to buy new phone for him and for my sister as a gift whenever he sees a new mobile phone in the market. He has six preferential numbers. Also, he has a collection of his older phones which is 6 or more. I think it is excessive because he is not a businessman to have these six phone numbers. I believe that phones are more important to use than buying it as a fashion.