We use technology every day. You start your day on your mobile and use various technological devices throughout the day. Wearables are one of those devices. You might have one or seen one. Some are smart watches, smart glasses, smart bracelets, etc. These devices are helpful for us in noticing various things like heart rate, footsteps, blood pressure, and many more. Thus, most people use wearables to check their health status and tend to improve it. That’s why it was most used. But it creates anxiety and fear about our health after seeing the results, which may be wrong. Well, technology can also cause errors. It can’t be accurate every time. By seeing the false information, many people get worried about their health. Like this, there are various negative impacts of wearable devices. Let’s see the Top 10 Negative Effects of Wearable Technologies:
1. Security Is At Risk
Everyone wants security in life, right? No one wants to live a non-secure life. Technology puts that security at risk. We use various gadgets which we think are secure, but it’s not. Likewise, your wearables also are not safe and secure. There is a high chance someone can hack your wearables and steal your data. If your wearables are connected to your mobile, they can take your data.
2. Privacy Issues
Privacy is one of the things that is destroyed due to technology. Wearables collect our health data like heartbeat, blood pressure, etc. These data can be stored in the cloud or a distribution system. This may cause the misuse of our health information by uncertified users. Even some companies use their employee’s health information to decrease the cost of their health insurance. The privacy of the user is invaded by wearing wearables!
3. More Dependable
Technology is making us more dependable. We can’t function a day without them. Using wearables makes it even worse. Wearables can track our heart rate, stress level, oxygen level, etc. Also, give us instructions to answer our calls and text messages and in which direction we need to go. It makes us less of original thinkers and more of a doer, whatever the technology says.
4. Cause Physiological Distress
Wearables are used to improve our health status by knowing more about our health, like oxygen level, pulse rate, etc. This is a positive case. There are some people who, after seeing their health status, want to improve it, but if they fail to do so, they’ll have a lot of stress, anxiety, helplessness, and doubt their self-worth.
5. False Information
Most people use wearables to keep track of their health status. They believe it so much, as they take it seriously and do the needful. We must understand that everything you see in those is not valid. For example, you might notice you have a low heart rate in that wearable, get panicked, and go to a doctor. And the doctor would say, you are fine. So, due to this false information, you must worry so much and spend money unnecessarily in the hospital.
6. Being Conscious All The Time
Wearables make people track their health all the time. They become over-conscious with the information they get from those devices. For instance, when people see their step counts, they want to walk more to achieve more steps. They do it thinking it would make them healthier, but that’s not the case. For people with obsessive-compulsive disorder or eating disorders, it could be so dangerous.
7. Affect Athletes
These wearables are more helpful to athletes to track their speed and health status. It is so much helpful to them, but in some cases, it affects them badly because they become so obsessed with tracking time or any other factors in those wearables instead of concentrating on their exercise or practice.
8. Sleep Trouble
Some wearables will help you track your sleep. Are there even devices for that? OH yes. They are used by many people to know whether they slept well or not. As these devices are not always precise, they may show false information sometimes. But people believe everything it offers, and if it shows that they don’t have enough sleep, they’ll immediately go to a doctor, thinking they have a problem.
9. Health Problems
Wearables are used by people to know about their health status, but in contrast, it causes specific health problems. Yes. As these all are technological devices, like mobile phones, they can emit specific frequencies or radiation which can cause various health problems in the user. If the health issue is big, it may cause severe issues to them.
10. Inferiority Complex
Technology become a trend these days; wearables are not an exception. When you see someone wearing a smartwatch or any other wearables, what do you feel? You’ll have an inferiority complex, especially when you can’t afford it. You’ll be started to think low about yourself, which will affect your mindset and mentality so severely.
