A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Article 'Obsession' By Ellen Gibson

    (Introduction) “Put down the phone, turn off your the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the effects smartphone usage has created among the younger and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many consequences the smartphone usage has impacted generations.

Many times our fears of what is unknown to us are often the strongest fears we hold as human beings. However, what if it was the fear of things we already know that were the most powerful and influential in our lives? In modern society, many hold within themselves a deep-seated fear of the technology that the world has become so revolved around. Additionally, it has recently become debatable whether or not this technology has become a hindrance to members of the so-called iGeneration, born between 1995 and 2012, who have grown up in a world surrounded by technology. Truly, the members of older generations, including millennials who have had themselves split off from the apparent technology obsessed generation of the youngest millennials, have expressed their concern as to whether or not these vast differences in generations have to do with the unhealthy use of technology. Among those to have analyzed this phenomenon is writer Jean M. Twenge who in her article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?,” utilizes the study of a modern 13 year old girl named Athena to exemplify a plethora of determinants that technology has imposed on young people and the slow deterioration of everything from independence and social skills to a decline mental health due to technology use. Many of Twenge’s statements reveal the belief that many members of iGen are unequipped to handle adulthood and are even less happy because of the technology that has played a significant role in their lives

Today, smartphones are everywhere. Just about everybody uses them from the time they get up, to the time they go to bed. With this personal tool, a lot of people have seen positive effects from using the device. However, some believe that people are going to far with a smartphone and that now it’s becoming more than a personal companion. This is what Nicholas Carr believes in “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds.” In the essay Carr argues that smartphones are having a negative effect on people’s minds. He strengthens his argument by use of fact, word choice, and emotional appeal.

The article “How Smart-phones Hijack Our Minds” by Nicolas Carr is about the destructive use of smart phones. So many people depend on their smart phones that it damages with the outcome of their work. Smart phones also make it harder to focus and remember since everything is now saved on your phone. The destruction with the phones don’t only occur with everyday activities, but it also affects your relationships and can cause distractions. Overall, the use of smart phones has shown negative effects on people’s minds.

As much as I regret to admit it, I’m attached to my phone. I’m constantly reaching into my pocket to check the time, make sure I haven’t gotten a new update, or to send a message. I do this even when I’m not talking to anyone! It’s become an addiction, having to make sure I’m not missing anything, and I'm not the only one who has this problem. Seventy-five percent of the world population has a cell phone, and that number will only increase. With the creation of new technology portions of life have become easier. Technology has changed the way we go through life. It’s made talking to people easier, as well as keeping up with the lives of others. However, the effects have affected the aspects of our lives that don’t include technology.

“More than three billion people worldwide now use the internet (Time), and 80 percent of them access if from their smartphones” (Smart Insights). A smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, and much more. There is an abundant amount of smartphone brands out there in the world and while they all cost different prices, they all perform the same job. Each person uses their smartphone for various reasons, whether it’s for work or to make calls or texts. Smartphones have changed society in various ways, both good and bad. Although countless individuals think that smartphones have ruined American society, smartphones have actually benefited society because of more safety precautions, information on hand, and entertainment.

As day progresses so as technology. In the modern society high technology devices have become indispensable to human. Electronic machines have gradually been starting to replace human work. At a factory work place, restaurant kitchen, and household laundry rooms, the improvement of technology can be seen anywhere. Mobile phone, which has only become prevalent in a few decades, can be found in anyone’s jeans pocket. However, is this situation an evolution to a new era or an over-reliance on technology. Sherry Turkle, the author of “The Empathy Diaries” expresses her concern on modern generation overusing electronic devices. She points out her main argument that the situation has deteriorated to the extend where children are losing their empathy and ability to social. Turkle, promoting the importance of conversation, not only criticize young generations for being overly obsess with electronic devices, but also oppose the ones who understand the the significance of conversation for not passing down the knowledge. It is clear that in Turkle’s perspective the improvement of technology has brought up issues that do not exist ever before. Despite that the benefit form electronic devices are inevitable the problems it brings about can never be look down. On the condition that people do not have enough self-control to overcome with the tempt form high technology devices can not only bring human short term benefits but lifetime long harm with its overly thoughtful benefits.

As time continues on, technology slowly grows as a bigger part of people lives every day. In the Back to the Future film series, people truly thought that by this time in the 21st century, 2015, the world would hold some of the greatest technology yet, and humans have created some immensely useful machines, but most people cannot step away from a tiny piece of tech that people call a smartphone. They might be deemed as helpful but also damaging if taken advantage of. Albert Einstein, a German theoretical physicist, once said, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.” People have begun to believe that this day has come upon us. Human’s involvement with smartphones has grown significantly, and this has begun a list of negative effects on the human mind. Scientists have studied some of the many effects of the internet and smart phones. Many people have noticed a growing change with cell phones and mental disorders, and this has started to become a problem. Cell phones have many components, and their link to mental disorders also holds many parts. The first part in the link between cell phones and mental disorders classifies to all of their growing components, their causes and negative effects, but people have started to find ways to put their phones down and others, and studies have begun the help prevent even further damage. Cell phone growth has become a major problem in today’s society, leading to addiction and some forms of mental disorders, and

In her essay entitled “Against the Cell,” Lauren Winner argues that in today's society we are constantly on our phones spending less time actually interacting with one another. Winner introduces her topic by describing when she walked across campus and counted how many people were on their phones. As she counted

Surely, we can’t deny how technology helps us contact each other, but there is one idea that they overlooks, which is the addiction that people have on the cell phone. Whenever people congregate, the action they do is stare on the phones. Audrey, sixteen, a Roosevelt junior, describes how her relationship with her mother breaks up as her mother spent all her time on the phone every time they were together. “It could have been four days since I last spoke to her, then I sit in the car and wait silently until she’s done,” said Audrey (377). In other words, Audrey is trying to express her feeling that how the cell phone has estranged her and her mother. From these, we can tell that how technology has been a “drug” that keeps us from interacting with each

The 21st Century is unlike any other century. Our lives tend to depend on technology. Technology makes our lives easier while it can also be a hazard to us. Technology causes us to be less social. Both articles “Our Cell Phones, ourselves”, by Christine Rosen and “Taking the Offensive Against Cell Phones”, by Lisa Guernsey are centered on the relationship between humans and technology.

In his article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean Twenge discusses the negative impact smartphones have had on post-millennials. He begins by describing the differences between this generation and the previous generation. Post-millennials have grown up with technology and handheld devices, they are less independent, they are working less, and their period of adolescence is increasing as they take longer to accept the responsibilities of being an adult. Because of these differences, Twenge contests that smartphones have had the largest impact on the post-millennial generation. Their obsession with phones changed the way they interact with the real world. Alarmingly, Twenge believes post-millennials are on the verge of a major mental

he main idea of the article Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation, is that the overuse of smartphones is causing the “i-gen” generation to be in a state of psychological distress.

3. It can be argues that Smartphone are increasingly becoming an everyday necessity in people’s live because of the important functions that they can do and the fact that they are all available in just one handset.

If I were to ask each of you if you were able to go an entire day without your mobile device, very few can say they`d be able to do so. In fact, in a recent TIME Magazine Mobility Poll, 84% out of 5000 people surveyed in 8 different countires, admitted that they couldn’t go a single day without their phones and a third of respondents admitted that being without their mobile device for even short periods of time leaves them feeling anxious. It is clear that whenever we`re waiting for those last five minutes before the bell rings to every class, our automatic impulse is to reach for our phone. Do you really need to check anything that important? The sad truth is that we have become far too dependent on our phones. The fear that we might miss the latest gossip, or the most recent updates on all of our social webesites seems more like an addiction than anything else. We`ve clouded our vision as to what is really important, and that is-quality human interaction.