The Negative Dangers Of Smart Phones

“Where are we going now?” I asked. My housemate said, “Go back home.” And then I took out my phone, opened my Google Maps. I entered my home address into the Google Maps. My housemate asked, “Oh come on, you don’t know how to get home?” That’s a usual thing that happens in my daily life. Of course, I can remember how to get home by myself. But using Google Maps becomes my habitual behavior. No matter where I go, the first thing that comes to my mind is to use Google Maps. In the book The Shallows, Nicholas Carr claims, “The idea that we’re somehow controlled by our tools is anathema to most people” (46). At the very beginning, the reason why people create tools is that they hope the tools can strengthen the abilities of the human. They can

Nowadays, people are used to lowering their heads and slid their smartphone. This kind of individuals called “smartphone enthusiasts.” In my view, “smartphone enthusiasts” is one of the adverse influences of the internet. In article “Cellphones can hurt relationships”, M Allen, Cynthia said, “The irony, of course, is that our efforts to stay connected at all times, to reach new people in remote places and improve human contact, may be having the opposite effect. We are becoming less connected, physically and emotionally, to the actual people - not Twitter followers or Facebook "friends" - who occupy important places in our lives.” I totally agree that we are trying to connect with others through the internet all the times, but people will estrange to each other in the end. There is a familiar scene always happen in our life. Think of you walks into a coffee shop or a restaurant. Two people are sitting at one table, but they are not looking at and talking to each other. They just lower their heads and keep sliding their smartphone. I have no idea why they spend their time to attend the meeting but don’t communicate to each other. For my point of view, although smartphone can communicate to each other immediately, it can’t replace the way of talking to people face to face. Talking to others face to face not only can improve the relationship between you and he/she, but also can see a lot of complicated emotion which can’t

It depends on how we use it. In the book The Shallows, “If you look at a particular technology at a particular point in time, it certainly appears that, as the instrumentalists claim, our tools are firmly under our control” (Carr 46). In my view, I agree that all the instruments should be under people control. The Internet should be regulated by ourselves. Conscientiously is vital for people to control the using time of the Internet. We need to limit our hours of using the Internet. For example, as a student, it is a common thing that you will have some difficult problems which you can’t solve during studying. As usual, you will search the problems on the net immediately. But now, you need to think about how many hours you used today. In this way, you not only have more times to think about your problems, but also can reduce the time when you use the internet. In conclusion, although the internet has these bad influence on us, if we don’t abuse it or rely on it, we can experience the convenience of