Smartphones and social media are drugs to people. Call them phone addicts. Phone addicts are the ones that wake up in the morning and check their social media or they cannot simply live without their phones. In the New York Times, author Sherry Turkle compares how people’s communications changed from face-to-face talk to smartphone talk. People became too dependent using their smartphones and social media to communicate to the outside world. She also sees how this impacts the younger generation communication with others. Verbal communication became harder for people to do due to smartphones and social media. Health is becoming an issue to smartphones users. People started to have neck, fingers, and vision problems. Smartphones are cancerous …show more content…
Every day, fewer people are not paying attention to their surrounds that can possibly affect their safety. For instance, surely they are people out there that do not look both ways before crossing the street because they are on their phones tweeting how boring class was. Hypothetically, he/she could probably get hit by a car. Someone could have prevented this accident if people were paying attention to their surroundings and if the communication was there. In The Washington Post, author Katherine Shaver stated that “A 2013 Ohio State University study found that the number of injuries treated in 100 emergency rooms nationwide related to pedestrians using cellphones…The study found people ages 16 to 25 were most likely to be hit while distracted. Abc News calls them “Petextrians.” In addition, designated driver also can be distracted with their smart phones. Commercials like AT&T, have warned and tried to decrease the amount of death cause by texting and drive. They would display a terrible accident for the purpose of showing the viewers the consequence of a distracted driver. The most common quote that AT&T repeatedly uses is, “It can wait.” What pedestrians and driver are doing is the equivalent of what a student do in class. Turkle states, “College students tell me they know how to look someone in the eye and type on their phones at the same time…Now they use it when they want to be both with their friends and, as …show more content…
The most common one is the text neck. According to Steven Shoshany, DC, CCEP, “a text neck is the term used to describe the neck pain and damage sustained from looking down at your cell phone, tablet, or other wireless devices too frequently and for too long. The younger generation are getting text necks that can be more damaging to them in the long run. It’s embarrassing to here young teens complaining about their neck pain compared to older middle age who have a reason to have neck pain. Kids are supposed to make their bodies stronger and healthier, not making it worse at a young age. The consequence can be that by the time teens get older, the more pain they will be in and the more restrictions they will have in their daily lives. People have their moments where they think they heard their phone vibrate but did not. This is called ringxiety. People can know a lot about a person who has ringxiety. That shows that the person is constantly on their phones and is so detached to the world. In the article, “Why we 've all got an iFinger” author Rachael Sigee stated that “this kind of text-related twitching can lead to greater health problems such as insomnia and headaches, which is in line with more traditional anxiety disorders.” Insomnia, headaches, and anxiety disorders are things that people do not need to deal with. Smartphones are risky for your eyes. Since 1997, an increase 35% of people have been having
Over the past two decades the use of cell phones has grown significantly and statistic from the past two years have proven that driving while on the phone or texting is becoming one of the leading causes of traffic accidents today. In 2011, a survey of more than 2800 American adults revealed that even thought they know that using a cell phone or texting while driving is distracting, they do it anyway, and teens surveyed admit that texting while driving is their number one distraction. "Each year, 21% of fatal car crashes involving teenagers between the ages of 16 and 19 were the result of cell phone usage. This result has been expected to grow as much as 4% ...
Texting and Driving has been a huge factor in accidents. More and more cities are starting to make cell phone use illegal to prevent many life threatening accidents. A phone call and text message can wait. You never know as drivers what the people are doing around you are doing unless you are watching your surroundings. The driver might be a really good driver and might be paying some attention to the road while you are on your phone but the road needs all of the drivers attention so that prevention of accidents is at its
The cell phone provider known as AT&T has produced several commercials to show the dangers of texting and driving. These are designed to grab people’s attention and to touch them in a small place in there heart to the point that they no longer feel the need to pick up their phone in the car. They stress over and over the dangers of reading just one text. There have even been safety precautions placed in teens vehicles that record them as well as the road while they are driving to catch any of this distracted behavior. As Americans have seen an increase in the amount of texting and driving there have been several of the 50 states that have put laws in place to help try and put a reduction on the amount of fatalities. The devastating part about this kind of distraction is that nearly every person that has owned a cell phone has picked it up at some point while they are driving to make a phone call or send a quick text. They have seen the commercials and they know the hurt that it has caused many families loosing someone they love, but we still to do it anyways. It’s so easy to tell yourself “It’s just one quick text, I will be fine.” At some point we need to realize this is not
Doctor Jean Twenge is an American psychologist who published an article for The Atlantic titled “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation?” in September 2017. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to highlight the growing burden of smartphones in our current society. She argues that teenagers are completely relying on smartphones in order to have a social life, which in return is crippling their generation. Twenge effectively uses rhetorical devices in order to draw attention to the impact of smartphones on a specific generation.
The several effects of distracted driving are deadly. Andrew Lavallee points out that “texting while driving is unsafe. Not only are a driver’s eyes off the road, one or both hands are off the wheel.” “We think it is incompatible with safe driving” (qtd. in Lavallee). “Study upon study showed that talking on a cellphone was far more dangerous than she’d realized – that a driver on a phone had the same reaction speed as someone legally intoxicated, that those talking on a phone behind the wheel are four times as likely to crash” (qtd. in Hanes). Stephanie Hanes also mentions that, “Unlike a conversation with a passenger, the electronic conversation takes a driver into a virtual space away from the road.” Subsequently, this causes severe problems and deadly
It’s time to have an honest look into using phones while we drive. We don't understand why we continue the behavior, and it’s killing us. Distracted driving is leaving tragedy behind on American roadways while there is more likelihood of meeting a “texter’ than to meet an intoxicated driver. Accidents occur when people talk on cellphones or send text messages while driving. According to an article published by the CDC “Injury Prevention and Control: Motor vehicle Safety” “Some activities—such as texting—take the driver’s attention away from driving more frequently and for longer periods than any other distractions.” The CDC reports that younger, inexperienced drivers under the age of 20 may be at increased risk; they have the highest proportion of distraction-related fatal crashes. There is a lot of media about teen drivers texting, emailing and using popular social media while driving Distracted driving is far from just a teen issue, there is no age limit on this growing epidemic. Looking down at a phone for just mere seconds while driving at highway speeds is the same as driving the distance of a football field without eyes on the road and what's taking place around you. Multitasking is often encouraged in many things we do, however when it comes to operating a motor vehicle, multitasking shouldn't be an option. While laws and programs have helped and have risen awareness to the problem people find ways to cheat the system. The technology world is working hard on devices that jam cell phones while a motor vehicle is in operation. Technology will be our only chance at reducing the injury and death from our ever so popular cellular devices. Technology brought us here and now its up to technology to reevaluate and change...
Phones are a helpful electronic device that allows people to get in contact with family, friends and colleagues at any time. Cell phones allow communication from almost anywhere you are and can help save time by allowing you to use it while doing something else, but what most people aren’t thinking about is how much of a distraction their phones are. People now days are so easily distracted by their phones that accidents happen very often. And it’s not just people walking into others or car crashes, but subway and train accidents also. In California, 2008 a train crashed and killed 25 people due to the engineer being distracted by his cell phone, texting. In 2009 a trolley rear-ended another trolley when the driver was texting. In fact it is
In 2011 , 1.3 million auto accidents in the U.S That involved cell phones And about 23% were car crashes, as well as 3,331 people were killed in crashes involving distracted driving. For the ages 15-19 year olds involved in fatal accident 21% of the distracted drivers were on the use of cellphones, and texting while driving makes it 23 times more likely to crash as for sending and receiving a text takes the driver's eyes off the rode for an average of 4.6 seconds ; at 55 mph. thats enough to walk a football field blind.
Now a days everyone is glued to their phones, constantly checking their emails, facebooking, snapchatting and texting. With all the devices people have and interact with on a day to day basis, there seems to be a lack of knowledge on how dangerous these devices really are. A report done by the AAA traffic safety foundation showed that “Each year, more than 80% of drivers in the annual AAA Foundation Traffic Safety Culture Index cite distraction as a serious problem and a behavior that makes them feel less safe on the road.” With the limited hours of free time during the day, people are using driving time to check emails and make phone calls which is inflicting on the safety of everyone around them. Texting and driving needs to be a thing of
Texting while driving is a widespread epidemic in the United States that has unfavorable effects on our society.“Driving while texting is the standard wording used for traffic violations” (Bernstein). It causes many people to be distracted which can lead to accidents. “Eighty-nine percent of people own a cell phone” (Gardner). That is a plethora of people that are at risk of texting while driving. Also, texting has increased by ten times in three years(Bernstein). “The risk of a crash for those who are texting is twenty-three point two times greater than those who are not” (Gardner).Driving drunk only makes a person seven times more likely to be in a crash (Bernstein). This means texting while driving is three times more dangerous than driving intoxicated. One in five drivers admits to texting while driving(Gardner). This shows that that texting while driving is a widespread epidemic. When a survey asked teenagers whether they text and drive,“seventy five percent of teens admitted to texting while driving” (7).Distracted driving causes seventy-eight percent of car crashes(Bernstein). “No distraction causes as high of a risk of an accident as texting while driving” (Gardner). Also with these statistics, it is not hard to understand why accidents in teenagers that are driving have risen. The Bluetooth capability in cars gives a driver a hands-free way to talk on the phone, but is still not completely safe (8). Also, only 1 out of 3 US cars sold in 2009 had this feature. New systems are being developed that will use Bluetooth as well a global positioning technology to allow parents to monitor cell phone use and texting while driving (10).
Nowadays majority of the population owns a cell-phone and drives a vehicle. Texting on its own is fine but when combined with a car it increased the risk of an accident. I believe that driving while operating a cell phone is one of the most dangerous things a person. Not only is a person not fully paying attention to the road, the moment they decide to shift their attention to their phones they are running the risk of causing an accident. Many people text and walk and that already is a pretty big issue that often leads to incidents that could have been avoided. While walking around campus I’ve seen many student looking at their phones and walking straight into others. It’s sad to say but mostly every-day I see someone sitting at a red light
Many people become contained by cellular devices and all that they offer that they can lose track of the fast paced world going on around them. Many can suffer from a the lack of face to face communication skills which in some instances can be a curse. Making it difficult to obtain a job or a healthy social life. Many may face difficulties in putting away their devices and finding themselves engaged in other activities due to the amount of apps and games now available on today´s smartphones. Social media’s have left a huge impact on society today grasping people to communicate online instead of face to face interactions. This can also lead to many insecurities as cyber bullying has posed a big threat to our youth. The telephone in the twenty first century has become more of a need than a necessity many cannot live without. Although it adds an ease to everyday life the phone can also cause harm as many become addicted to the technology and find it hard to escape back to the real world.
This directly connects to how much teenagers, and even children, are obsessed with their phones. This have been exemplified from how many accidents are caused by texting while driving. Teens, and even adults, will say they are not looking away from the road for that long to send a quick text; however, the Edgar Snyder and Associates states that “answering a text takes away your attention for about five seconds. Traveling at 55 mph, that's enough time to travel the length of a football field” (“Texting and Driving Accident Statistics,” 2015). But I feel as though texting and driving is a branch off of a even bigger issue, the fact that this generation is obsessed with their phones and the new technology. Texting and driving would not be such an enormous issue, if the obsession with phones and social media wasn’t so prevalent. A study by Teensafe revealed that “seventy-two percent of teens admit that they feel a sense of urgency to check notifications and respond to messages as soon as they come in” (Teensafe, 2016). This leads to the texting while driving problem, because they feel obligated to check their phone. The fact that, especially, teenagers cannot wait twenty minutes or so to drive somewhere to look at their phone. I have personally had the urge a couple times to check my phone while driving, but I realize how dangerous that is so I never
“Distracted driving is any activity that could divert a person’s attention from the primary task of driving” (What). There almost endless ways to be distracted while driving which includes texting, using a phone, eating, drinking, talking to passengers, reading, which includes maps, and adjusting the radio. All distractions endanger the driver’s, passenger’s, and bystander’s safety. Sometimes, some of these distractions are unavoidable, but are also not so dangerous. “Because text messaging requires visual, manual, and cognitive attention, it is by far the most alarming distraction” (What). According to the official government website for distracted driving, five seconds is the average time a person’s eyes are off of the road while texting and that is enough time at 55mph to cover a football field blind folded (What). That is an unnerving thought to think of when 660,000 people are actually driving and doing that at any time during the daylight every day. “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported in 2012 that driver distraction was the cause of 18% of all fatal crashes” (Federal). That’s 3,328 people dead and 421,000 wounded due to someone not focusing their attention on the road at a time when they should have been
“We barely have time to pause and reflect these days on how far communicating through technology has progressed. Without even taking a deep breath, we’ve transitioned from email to chat to blogs to social networks and more recently to twitter” (Alan 2007). Communicating with technology has changed in many different ways. We usually “get in touch” with people through technology rather than speaking with them face to face. The most popular way people discuss things, with another individual, is through our phones. Phones have been around way before I was born in 1996, but throughout the years, they have developed a phone called a “smart phone”. The smart phone has all kinds of new things that we can use to socialize with our peers. On these new phones, we can connect with our friends or family on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Technology has also developed Skype, a place you can talk with people on the computer with instant voice and video for hours. The new communication changes have changed drastically from the new advances made in technology through our smart phones, social networking sites, and Skype.