Balk: Smartphone

People rely on technology to survive in today’s society. People feel like they have to always be on their phones to be accepted, but they are missing life as it passes right in front of them. For example, I tend to get annoyed when I try to have conversations with my little sister and she sits on her phone not talking or paying attention. I have to take her phone to get her to look me in the eye and talk about things. People in today’s society lack socializing skills and that is all thanks to technology.

Despite however person thinks, the world is divided between people who think how useful the cell phone is and what the cell phone change our life to the best and help us at our work and make the communication easily between people so it develops our society the other people who are convinced that it damages our life and decrease the social interaction comparing to the past.

In such a short period of time people now seem more absorbed by these objects which are meant for communication but at the same time separate people from each other and shape the way people communicate. It is almost as if everyone was from a different country and did not know how to communicate with each other. My main focus on this project was the dining halls but since I currently live on a ten story building here on campus I could also notice this same behavior of using phones in the elevators. People usually walking in listening to music or with their phone, and the eye contact is kept to the minimum. Nobody says anything but a very few amount of people who say a greeting when they walk in. So with the observations on the elevator I saw that this behavior was not only displayed in dining halls, but basically everywhere and because everyone has these items I could notice it even while I was walking to my classes. Some people did not even pay attention to where they were walking because of being focused on a phone. In the most extreme cases I saw people on hover boards while using their phone which is life-threatening for the user and people around

Cell phones and technology are wonderful tools for us to communicate and to grow as society but even though there are many benefits of using cell phones in the various social environments, there is also the greater disadvantage of the usage of the devices. The effects of being rude to one another, “light” unimportant conversations, and weak relationships between peers or family members. In today's world people are way too connected electronically and disconnected emotionally. As there is a lot of controversy to if cell phones are running society's social lives or not, research has shown that they are in fact hurting and affecting how people are interacting and communicating with one another. Between the lack of empathy and the lack of face to face conversations, cellular devices “smart phones” are the major reasons society is seeing a negative effect in people’s social life

Cell phones are affecting the lives of people in a negative way. People have begun to rely solely on the technology that has been created rather than picking up a book or finding answers the old-fashioned way. A major issue that has occurred because of cell phones is the lack of social skills in most nearly all individuals. Cell phones have greatly shaped society and destroyed face to face social skills. People pick up their phones and send a text rather than going to speak to a person. “According to an article in the Huffington Post, children do not know how to handle face-to-face conflict because so much of their interactions occur through some sort of technology…. Cell phones are now preventing these social skills from being taught because children are too caught up in technology than the real world.”(Hyman) When growing up, most children are taught how to make friends, but now children are growing up with the access to technology which has a great impact in shaping the social skills of children. “Young adults also use text messaging as their primary method of contacting friends – over 80 percent report texting as their preferred method.”(Voegeli). Young adults and even older adults have developed an addiction to their cell phone. Cell phones do make it easier to contact people, but they make social skills in individuals dissipate. People are attached to their phones like it is a part of their body. Technology like the cell phone has taken a toll on everyday life events. People cannot even sit in a room with their family without being on their phones. In most cases, they would rather text one another instead of having a conversation. Society needs to

In today’s society, people view the world through the very handheld electronic devices in their pockets, rather than going outside and experiencing life for themselves. They use their phones to communicate, share their everyday experiences, connect with their family, friends and loved ones. whether it may be from the other side of the world, or just the room. Cell phones have revolutionized the way humans communicate and socialize, ever since the first cell phone to hit the market in 1973 by John F. Mitchell. As much as cell phones are helpful and convenient, they have changed the world dramatically. This seem like an extreme claim to make, but evidence shows that cell phones have made the world a little more difficult. They have caused many problems such as fatal car accidents due to distracted drivers on the road, as well as sexting and revenge porn, which leads to a form of cyberbullying. Even cell phones themselves are harming their overall health, their social interaction, and even teen literacy. People may not have a solution to these problems but they need to find

In this editorial, Live Science writer Kelly Dickerson found in a study that people who pulled out cell phones throughout a discussion found the conversation less rewarding. She claims that the compulsion to check our cell phones and the essential to stay tied into the straight network system can make people withdraw from their current activities, and it can produce anger between them and their family and friends. Cell phones are not only taking away the time alone to damage our associations with others, but we have similarly lost the incapability with people without watching at our phones and being present with another person.

Everyday you see how much cell phones has impacted the way people spend their free time. Ever since technology became a big hit among teenagers is has caused less communication among one another. It's to the point where people feel lost without their phones!

Cell phones have changed our form of interaction with others significantly. I know that whenever I see someone I know of but do not really want to speak to I purposely take my phone out to avoid having to speak to that person. Also whenever I am with a group of my friends phones are always out talking to others that are not in front of them on messaging or social media.

In conclusion, the author has made some good points, but I would not be so drastic to say they’re destroying us. I believe they can also bring us together. Cellphones can be good or bad, depending on how you use it. If you use it to compare yourself on social media to peoples best days than you will always feel less. But if you use it to connect with people than it can be good. Since this is all I know, I believe smartphones haven’t completely destroyed my

One of my main concerns about phones is that it is generating a whole generation of millennial and teens to suffer mentally. According to the The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation,“The more time teens spend looking at screens, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression.”Just disappointing to see how the smartphones that people are buying to be happy is making them depressed. This means that if you spend a lot of time on your supposed to make you happy device it will make you heavy-hearted. According to the The Atlantic: Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation,“Teens who visit social-networking sites every day…most likely to

Is Cell phone usage building a gap between social interaction or is it widening the gap between us? Can use of cell phones at certain functions be considered bad etiquette? What is your predisposition on the matter? Ira Hyman PH.D. Mental Mishaps, who wrote the article “Cell Phones Are Changing Social Interaction and Creator of the YouTube Video “Mobile Phones and Our Lives,” sought to answer these question; both having divergent views.

It is difficult to find two people having real life communication without interruption of a cell phone. At home, children fight for their parent’s attention while at dinner table due to the cell phone. The most annoying one is in the classroom. A professor will be teaching yet students prefer to go to Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. Our overdependence on the cell phone is something that requires

The human nature can’t go anywhere without their smartphones; they have them on them twenty-four seven which is making it part of the dress code. All social media apps are becoming so popular that they are a social norm. Our face to face conversations aren’t as deep or emotional as they used to be. Cellular devices are keeping the human kind from the outside world because they pay too much attention to their phones. With that, Cell phones are keeping the younger generations from having heartfelt conversations

It is so sad when you see a group of people at a table out together and instead of talking they are all glued to their phones. Once it gets to that stage then it has gone too far and I would leave mine behind before allowing that to happen.