Final Paper: Cell Phone Addiction

In the short story "The New Addiction" by Josh Freed, the author discusses the growing cellphone usage. It has become as big as smoking addictions. Everywhere you go, all you see is people on their cellphones. Whether they are texting or talking on their phone. Cell phones can be annoying at times and can cause much noise. Eventually, non-cellphone usage in certain places has become a big thing. A Sign that says "No Cell Phones" have been largely widespread than no smoking signs. Therefore, cell phones have become addicting and have led to children and teens being the biggest cell phone users.

The article "The Next Civil Rights Movement is Digital" by: Juan Andrade mostly discusses the addiction people have to mobile device. About 50% of people have admitted to having an addiction to the cell phone addiction, this infusing both teenager and adults.

The world of technology has been rapidly increasing since the 1900s. When the cell phone was invented in the 1970s, nobody could have imagined how far they have come. What was once a luxury item is now an item that is rare to not have. With the widespread usage of cell phones comes the problem of addiction. The issue has become so bad scientists have keyed the term “nomophobia” as the fear of being out of reach of your mobile cell phone and the Internet. The world has slowly became more of an online world. Shopping, socializing and work are all made easier by the Internet and cell phones. This means shoppers do not have to leave the comfort of their home to actually go out and take care of issues on their own. With children being

John claims that more and more people, especially teens, are addicted to smartphones, and that such thing has led to a lot of physical and psychological effects among this people. People who are addicted to their phone can lose their mind when they are awy from their phones.

A little too much of everything is bad, including phones. Kelly Wallace from CNN posted, “Fifty percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices, according to the poll, which was conducted for Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on helping children, parents, teachers and policymakers negotiate media and technology.” This is very concerning because a total of 50% of teens admit to it, but there are still more kids who are who are not aware of it. Addiction is bad because it can cause people to not get things done and lose relationships with people. The worst part is without these objects to fuel their addiction, they will be violent. If a heroin user does not get his or her heroin because of not being able to afford it, they will go to extreme lengths to get it. In “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury, there is a nursery where the kids can imagine whatever they want and it will appear. When their parents realize they are addicted to it and cannot live without it, they decide to shut it down. This leads to the kids leading the parents into the nursery where they are killed by lions. The extremes people will go to so they are able to get their addiction met are crazy. Due to the kids not being able to use their special nursery, they decided it was necessary to kill their own parents. Addictions to cell phones will lead to people being violent over

We bring mobile phone with us in everywhere that we go and use it on a daily basis. It is being the part and parcel of our daily life. Mobil phone have been around for quite sometime, but as time goes on, mobile phones continuous to gain many features. A mobile phone started out as simple device that had only numbers, and most people used them for emergencies only. Nowadays, cell phones have many features such as phone calls, text massaging, taking pictures accessing the web, using calculator etc as many accessories. People become addicted in cell phone because they are getting many facilities by using it. For example whenever they go outside they can take the phone with them because of its size, networking range, a full charge battery, essay connection etc.

Cellphone Controversies In the article, “Cell Phones and Social Graces,” by Charles Fisher, Fisher talks about how people are slaved into their cell phones and how many people allow it to impact their lives. Fisher’s main idea in this article is that cell phone technology nowadays ruins people sociological and cultural actions and is also a reason why he refuses to have a cell phone of his own. Fisher uses his own personal experiences and his observations to support his main idea on how people allow a cellphone device to impact their daily lives. Fisher gives personal examples to support his main idea when he talks about not owning a cell phone and explains how distracting it is nowadays to own a cellphone compared to a few years ago.

Cell phones are used by so many people and do so many things to help people that they have become a necessity, rather than a convenience, in order for people to carry on their lives. This necessity or dependency is the addiction that people face with their cell phones. When these people lose or break their phones they panic, feel anxiety and look for the quickest way to fix the problem. For example, the car needs the oil changed and at the same time the phone is broken. Most people today

Believing that addictions to cell phones are becoming increasingly realistic, he surveyed 164 college undergrads and discovered that “cell-phones [had] become inextricably woven into our daily lives — an almost invisible driver of modern life.” This information shows that as more and more people are becoming avid users of cell phones, the harder it is growing to put them down. In the future, researchers like Roberts are developing machines to see whether or not an “addiction” to cell phones is a diagnosable condition. Researchers in the U.K. studied 1,529 teenaged students and categorized around 153 as “problematic users" of cell phones. All of this leads to the ultimate conclusion, which is that cell phones can be an addiction. The author clearly proves her point by showing how research has backed up her opinion, and she believes that this sort of addiction can be diagnosable in the future

In “Jessie Brown: Who Says Smartphone Addiction is bad thing? The case for constant connectivity” (Brown, 2012), Brown claims that the cellphone is not the problem, in fact, it is the person and how they choose to value their time while using smartphones.

The cell phone has become a centerpiece of everyday life as cell phones are evolving and have been increasing their functionalities. Today, we use them today for many others reasons than what cell phones were originally designed to do. People are using them so often that they are becoming dependent on their phones that they have even become addicted to them. Those who are addicted to their cell phones struggle to stay away from them for a certain period of time and become so indulged in all of the unique things they can provide. With cell phone addiction comes many problems or issues that can occur in an individual’s life. Cell phone addiction has lead to differences in people mentally, physically, and behaviorally.

In today's society there have been numerous advancements to help us in our everyday lives. One of this advancement is cell-phones, which is one of the greatest development in technology. We have become dependent on mobiles phones and it seem like a high percentage of the population including elderly people, young adult and even kids under 18 have one of this devices. There are numerous advantages and disadvantages related to cell phones. In one hand there is the importance of being communicated for emergencies, business, social and personal purposes. On the other hand, the usage of cell phone had become addictive to people of all around the world and the abuse of prolongated hours on the cell phones can cause health hazard. Cell phones

Electronic addiction - especially cellphone addiction - is taking over the U.S. and many other countries in the world. Though our phones can give us happiness, they can be a start to many problems you might face.

There have been several studies that show how children, high school students, college students, as well as adult’s lives are more susceptible to smartphone addiction. Some studies looked at how the frequent use of social networking apps such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. game apps, and video apps tended to become a problem (Sook-Jung, Changho, & Cheolhan, 2016). Other studies show that smartphones are becoming a daily necessity for most and the truth about the addiction is that people are not addicted to their smartphone, they are addicted to the information, entertainment, and personal connections that is delivers (Emanuel et al., 2015). Some studies aimed to evaluate whether smartphone addiction symptoms determine if depression or anxiety contribute to smartphone addiction levels among a sample of students. This literature review will look at how smartphone addiction and how it affects social behavior in relation with everyday activity within young adolescents, college students and as well with adults.

Cell phone use produce a lot of stimuli for the user. Research has begun bringing this to light. There is evidence that shows the relationship between cell phone use and your neurocognitive functions. New research has shown that Cell phone usage may be directly linked to your dopamine levels and tamper with your reward center (La Porta et al., 2006).