Entiquette Reintroducing Real Life To A Smartphone Obsessed Society By Ian Brown Summary

In the article,” Etiquette: Reintroducing real- life to a smartphone-obsessed society”, the author Ian Brown from the Globe and Mail has developed a number of valid arguments on how technology negatively influences society. In particular, he focuses how smart phones have negatively affected individuals’ day-to-day lives. He develops his thoughtful and well-structured arguments through the usage cause and effect, compare and contrast and lastly, examples. Ian Brown uses cause and affect in his article; this helped prove his point. By using actual events that occurred in Toronto and analyzing there causes and effects he is proving his point. It shows how peoples’ attitudes change when they are without their smartphone verse with their smartphone.

He does this to show to the reader the negative effects that members experience when they are constantly on their smartphones. It quotes, “ Also related, a Manhattan business type explains, to texting while coming out of the subway, and then slowing down as you get to the exit. Because no one actually knows where their going. They’re living moment to moment, as you do on the phone, and relying on MapQuest…. In the accident predigital world, life required modesty and forethought, or at the very least a list. Not any more.” In this quote above there is a comparison to how society lived prior to the extensive usage of the smart phone verse how members of society live with the smart phone. Society has negatively changed, in the sense they are using their brain less. Previously, you would have to look at the street corner and figure out how to get to places on your own. Currently, all you have to do is plug the address into your phone. Society is relying more on there smartphone; this is making them dumber as a result. The more an individual uses his or her brain they brighter that individual will be. The Manhattan businessman is making the comparison how previously life required modesty and forethought, and now currently it requires neither. Towards the end of the second page the Manhattan businessman makes the following statement, “ rules of conduct take hundreds of years to develop. Shaking hands, looking someone in the eye, listening attentively to a conversation, even the Golden rule, are the distillation of thousands of years of human interaction.” This man is comparing and contrasting society as it was in the past verses how society is today. He discusses the negative changes that we experience as the result of smartphone overuse. In the quotation he makes the point that rules of conduct took hundreds of years to develop and all a sudden they disappear because an object referred to as a