Smartphones And The Smart Phone

“When I was your age… you say, beginning long-winded stories of your childhood hard-knocks. You walked four miles in the bitter cold and never had cool video games to keep yourself entertained or the internet to help write your research papers, right?” (Yagana). Well, the times have changed and without such technology the newest generation’s would not know how to function, let alone have any source of communication… or so we think. According to the New York Times journalist, Hilary Stout, “Those hours spent on the family princess phone or hanging out with pals in the neighborhood after school vanished long ago”(Stout). This statement is very true and, Amanda Lenhart, a Senior Research Specialist for the Pew Research Center provided us this

The smartphone is not only a phone but a computer itself which allows us to access social media sites and the internet whenever it is convenient for us. In 2011 the smartphone companies sold over one million of these devices, which means that four out of every ten people have a smartphone. Us as human beings are social animals and we crave the need and sense of communication and the technology based smartphone just intensifies that craving. (Bousaid) But, what are we really doing to ourselves when we are constantly worried about our smartphones? We have went from a world of in person communication to always wanting to communicate through our smartphones, but this is destroying our ability to communicate with other human beings in a face-to-face conversation. But, our communication styles are not the only thing that is suffering from the newest technology. In an education based field, children are becoming more distracted and distant causing a decrease in the learning that is being done (Bousaid). NBC News reports, “people who are interrupted by technology score 20 percent lower on a standard cognition test. A second demonstrated that some students, even when on their best behavior, can 't concentrate on homework for more than two minutes without distracting themselves by using social media or writing an email”(Sullivan). In the career field the smartphone 1 also hurts the productivity that is being done, research has been conducted that shows that only eleven minutes of work can be done before the employee becomes distracted by their smartphone, which means that these employees are constantly distracted by their smartphones. The decline in our education, communication and career choices can all be linked to smartphones and the constant evolution of our