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Background of the Study Technological advancement and globalisation have changed life, and this boom in technologies has changed our orientation towards these electronic gadgets. Among all electronic gadgets, smart-phone is the most accepted and widely used device and is comparatively easy to afford. In today's time, there are 5 billion people who own smart-phone, and this number is increasing rapidly. According to the statistics, 4.39 billion that is 72% of the population use smart-phone solely for the purpose of searching web instead of laptop or desktop and the number is expected to reach 7.33 billion by 2023 (Milijic, 2019). Technology is great, but it is advancing too fast and is taking over the lives of people. It is portable, user-friendly, full of options, comfortable and almost everything is just a click away. So it is basically a solution for most of the problem at one side, but on the other side, it is also responsible for various other issues in human lives and causes many ill effects and damage many things. The smart-phone has become the most integral and intimate part of our lives, so much that 51% of the population divine in their smart-phone every few minutes resulting in 150 times a day on average, 87% of the population check their smart-phones before going to bed and 69% of them use it within the five minutes of waking up. This smart device has not affected the life of one particular age group but has taken control overall, especially the generation Z. According to UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) there are more smart-phones than people on earth because many of the individuals own more than one. On an average, 56% of children between the ages of 8-12 get their first smart-phone and the population falling under the age group of 18- 29 has 100% ownership of smart-phone, and 79% of them can't be without their devices for more than an hour. The technology was built to make people's life easy, but all inventions will only remain good until it is not being used excessively as an excess of everything is bad. Smart-phone helped people in many ways but somehow use of smart-phone is now crossing the boundary of optimum use and entering into an area where this would damage life and society and become one of the major reasons for many illnesses in,