The Over Usage of Smartphones Nowadays, almost everyone owns a smartphone. Smartphones are similar to traditional home phones in that they provide a valuable source of communication. In addition, smartphones have become an innovator that allows us to communicate in various forms via regular phone calls, direct messaging, face to face communication, and many other advanced applications. But have these devices gone past helpful and are now an obsession? Researchers at the University of Baylor conducted a study with 164 college students and found that students spent a considerable amount of their time consumed by their smartphones throughout the day. In fact, they spent on average 94.6 minutes texting alone. Additionally, they spent 48.5 minutes …show more content…
Social media is websites and other online means of communication through a smartphone that are used by large groups of people to share information and to develop social contacts, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Snapchat. On social media such as Facebook, a person can share links to short articles on current events for all their friends to see. Within the articles can be very inaccurate information and come from unreliable sources; yet students still use these articles’ information for school, because it is easier to obtain than fully researching a topic. Also, Students using social media acquire a bias with the information they read, only seeing the posts their friends have shared, and they have the tendency only to post articles that confirm their beliefs. For example, a person with friends that have Democratic views is more likely to see information on Facebook about the Democratic candidate’s good ideas, and the unfavorable views of the Republican candidate. These biases make it harder for a student to research thoroughly or actively engage in a lecture that is against their bias formed from social …show more content…
The average student has 27 apps on their phones, each one very different and intriguing. A person can look around a college dining area and see the majority of students with their eyes glued to their phones. Many of these students are actively on an app just to pass the time; playing a game, watching a video on YouTube, or reading articles. A student can get caught up in the apps and games that are available on their phones, and lose track of time. These apps cause students to stay up very late hours, and get little to no sleep. It is more difficult for a student to actively and fully participate when they are sleep deprived; affecting their ability to gather the information present to them, and also impairs their memory. While smartphones may affect student’s mental attributes, it is believed that such devices can provide a wide variety of valuable resources for
A common theme is taking place where as people feel that cell phones are starting to take over others daily lives. Many people go through their day to day lives not even relizing how often they are on their cell phones. In the article, “Our Cell Phones, Ourselves” the author Christine Rosen talks about how cell phones are starting to become a necessity in every way towards peoples lives. Rosen talks about both the good and bad effects of cell phones and how they have changed the way in which we work our daily life. Although I think cell phones can be necissary, the constant need for use could be the beginning of how cell phones will take over our every day lives.
Before technology and cell phones the only way to socialize was talking and information was in books that you had to go find. Cell phones are used for many things that we have right at our fingertips, but they carry disadvantages. “Complexity of cell phone addiction stems from multiple factors, such as educational, cultural, economic, mental health, and social factors, which could impact cell phone addictions.”2 Cell phones are used at all times of every single day for any reason possible. With the cell phone, we have the world at our
Owning a smart phone in today’s society has become the norm. In fact, landlines are on the verge of becoming obsolete since smartphone sales have been on the rise throughout this past decade. The PEW Research Center (2018) has found that approximately 95 percent of Americans own a smartphone (Mobile Fact Sheet, para.2). Owning one of these technological gadgets may seem convenient, but spending too much time on them can actually be damaging. There are many dangers to spending too much time staring into these screens. Over usage of our time on these devices interferes with the development of social and communication skills. Smartphones are especially harmful for the younger generation. There are numerous negative effects of smartphones and the use of them should be
About a month ago I attended a dinner with some close friends. As we all sat in the restaurant waiting for drink orders to be taken, I looked around the table and what I saw made me feel more than a little annoyed considering I had not seen some of these people (or spoken to some of them) in over a month. Everyone at the table had sat down and immediately took out their phone. After reading the article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, by Jean M. Twenge, the feelings experienced that evening at dinner were validated and broadened by the depth and scope of the article. Jean Twenge was persuasive because of the statistical data in her article.
With improvements in technology, it is no surprise that people everywhere are connected with each other all over the world. The newest technologies of today are only continuing to improve, as they are becoming more widespread every day. Smartphones, which are a broad part of this technological craze, are sweeping the nation into the hands of teenagers today, many preferring to use them instead of socializing with people face to face. These improvements, however, come with consequences. Smartphones are destroying a generation by causing the teenagers today to be more stressed, anxious, and depressed.
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Body #1: Digital technology and social media are damaging our daily routine. In the article “The risk and rewards of being an adolescent in the digital age” by Madeline J. George and Candice L Odgers they say, “4 out of 5 adolescent mobile phone owners report sleeping with there phones in or near their bed.” This statistic really proves to us that these phones are really damaging our daily routine because we are so addicted to our phones we can’t stop being around them. Digital technology and social media are starting to slowly take over our lives and are now becoming additional distractions to our daily lives because we are so focused on them and not the things that are going on around us. Lev Grossman also talks about this in his article, when he states that he is also putting in too much time into his phone also. The reason he says this is because his phone is set to update his emails once every sixty seconds so he won’t miss out
“I’m sorry I didn’t hear you. I was responding to a text message. What were you saying?” Have you ever heard this expression or something similar; we all have. This is clear evidence of how cellphones can be a very big distraction in many social settings. Some people check their cell phone first thing in the morning. It is so easy to waste time playing on your cell phone rather than doing something productive. Cell phone use, can cause harm physically, socially, and academically, although cell phones have some good qualities, advancements in technology is causing the world to gradually become dependent on technology.
Tweets, texts, and the virtual world are beginning to engulf human society one message at a time. For the past ten years, the estimated phone usage per day has become three to four hours. Those precious hours add up quickly, resulting in a total of one hundred and twelve hours per month spent staring at an animated screen. Children, teens, and even adults are beginning to use their cell phones more and more, and are putting themselves at a greater risk of developing social awkwardness, little persistence, and becoming known as digital natives; all these traits driven within your hand held partner.
In an article “Our minds can be hijacked” by Paul Lewis, the growing controversy over our addiction to checking our phones, why our people are addicted, and the rising symptoms of this problem were examined and discussed. A collection of the sources were in agreement that smartphones have become attention thieves and have robbed us of our own minds. The worldly titan of technology has become a supreme constant in the United States, connecting people through apps such as Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and other social media sites. However has it become more than just a tool or a toy and began to dominate society?
Forty-one years ago on April 7, 1973, Motorola engineer Martin Cooper changed the world by making the world’s first cell phone call. With a 10-inch-long, 2.5-pound phone nicknamed “the brick” he called his engineering nemesis at the much bigger company Bell Labs (Here& Now, 2014). The phone gave 30 minutes of talk time after 10 hours of recharging and it cost a grand total of $3995. In those days, the average middle-class person could not afford to buy a mobile phone. By the late 1990s, cell phones became progressively accessible to the overall population. (Ef.org.vt.edu, 2014). Ever since then the sizes and the technologies in and of cell phones has been changing to accommodate the masses. Decades later, cell phones, and now smartphones, live in the pocket or purse of nearly everyone in the United States. Cell phones tell us the time, give us directions, take pictures, entertain us and help us exercise, all while making it possible to post each and every sordid detail to the internet without going anywhere near a computer. These new devices however convenient also bring complications along with them. This research paper will delved into the advantages and disadvantages of a cell phone, visit the health risk and factors affecting people who are exposed to cell phones, Discuss how cell phones have changed our way of communicating and socializing with one another, outline preventative measures surrounding the way cell phones have degraded our way of life and expound on the Thesis: Though cellular phones have provided many advantages since inception their cause more harm than their benefits they are worth.
It is well known that smartphones improve everyone’s life. They not only give us support every second but also prevent us from being bored to death. Yet some neglect these benefits and argue that smartphones can ruin our social life, and that we should decrease our smartphone usage. In some rare occasions what they say can happen to sound convincing. However, we strongly recommend that you let it go through one ear and out the other ear. You should even try to be benevolent and help the minority of the population advance. Here are some reasons why:
Cell phones have crept into an owner’s possession at all times. “The mobile phone has become a part of us: our best friend who will save all our secrets, pleasures and sorrows” ("Exploring"). Teens have developed the need to know the latest news on social media every minute of every day; they do not want to miss any little detail. Since the beginning of smart phones, high school students have felt the need to have their media open on their smart phone in front of them so they do not feel empty. Once someone has become attached or addicted to something, it is hard to change their habits. Cell phones have changed people socially, especially with the availability to social media with electronics.
Today’s society accepted phones so fast and easily, that most of the things that can harm us, are actually some of our social norms that we don’t even realize we are doing. Cell phones can have effects on the way people think and act, their interactions with people in society, and the amount information people retain from the direct result of multi-tasking. Cell phones are a very important asset to people, and good resources of information, but they can have negative effects on people such as depression, anxiety, and addiction to the use of the cell phone. Distractions from cell phone use have also been linked to many motor vehicle accidents as well. Cell phones were created to make our lives better, and more efficient, but do they harm us more than help
To begin with, the most prominent function of the smartphone is for communication purposes. Communication is relayed in many forms; texting, calling or via social networking sites. Texting is the most common and quickest way of communication. Research conducted by Pew Internet and American Life Project indicates that 9 in 10 American smartphone users send and receive text (MarketingCharts, 2011). The text feature allows for delivery of information within a fast time frame, regardless of the receiver's location. On the other hand, even though this allows for a much faster way of communication with people, it also decreases the ability to use other, and much older ways of communication. According to a Huffington Post article, Cris Rowan, a therapist, argues that texting results in “no creativity, there’s no imagination, no self-initiation” (Bindley, 2011). However, texting and emailing is frequently seen as a downside as many studies indicate that they ...