Does cell phone use really affect our communication skills? Cartoon by Izzy Peterson by Erin Stewart, Editor November 25, 2013 Filed under Fall 2013, Story Cycle 4, Features, Opinion, Showcase The short URL of the present article is: http://lhslance.org/bKUbA We live in a world where communication through modern technology is almost required. Everywhere people are texting, emailing, writing blogs and tweeting. It’s hard to go anywhere without seeing someone using a phone or the Internet to connect with others. Can you imagine not being able to check your Twitter, Facebook or messages for a week? We would feel lost. Of course the use of technology can be good. It provides us with faster, more efficient ways to communicate with …show more content…
Studies have shown that it makes it difficult for students who rely so heavily on technology to actually communicate to adults in person because they don’t quite develop all of the necessary skills to hold or even start a face-to-face conversation. However, these skills are a crucial tool in the workforce. If you want a high paying, stable job, or possibly even to be admitted to a university, you must have good face-to-face communication skills. If you lack these specific skills you most likely won’t even make it through the interview. “Teens are in the stage of their life where they’re learning so if you don’t learn to have good communication skills, then when you become an adult you will have a harder time asking for help, being proactive with things in your life,” said reading specialist Mrs. Tracey Cassidy. Students who are constantly texting with abbreviated forms of words have begun to speak with the same acronyms. The now everyday uses of “LOL” and “OMG” have become substitutions for actual emotional responses in conversations. This form of talking is often seen as flighty and uneducated. They’re not only speaking in abbreviated ways but they are also beginning to become distracted during conversations. While texting, it is easy to jump from topic to topic when an idea comes to mind. However, this is causing many students to become unfocused and sidetracked during face to
Cell Phones have changed the way the world operates and people are constantly improving on this revolutionary tool due to it’s large demand and ease of use; While at the same time doing so can cause new hazards for individuals.
Throughout all of history expectant mothers always wanted to have a way to announce to others the gender of their child, and now they can. Mothers can now show the gender of their children easier with the use of their cell phone; they just take a picture and send it in an instant. Cell phones were first invented by Dr. Martin Cooper, who worked for the Company Motorola (Oak) Cell phones have made an impact on many things including society, culture and a multitude of other areas such as fashion. The significance cell phones have made in the U.S. has endless tasks it can help people do.
Over the past few decades, technology has changed dramatically in our country. Cell phones were invented about forty years ago, and have been perfected every year since. Cell phones, or smart phones have affected the lives of many individuals in our country by providing a direct line of communication, access to social media, and connect individuals to new marketplaces and jobs.
Cell phones are one of the numerous technologies that have changed our lives in astounding ways. Similar to any external stimuli, cell phone usage can form an addiction that negatively impacts your life. Two covers for The New Yorker, “Unmasked” and “Sweet Nothings” convey the same message of cell phone addiction distracting people from living in the present moment and enjoying their lives.
There has been a lot of controversy over use cell phones along with the positive and negative impacts that it has reflected on society. Today, cell phones are used for numerous amounts of things that could play a role into a person’s everyday life. Cell phones could also be overpowering when not being used for certain things. Therefore, it is truly up to the individual on how they interact with their cell phone or smart phone.
“Cell phones cannot help people learn! Cell phones only make children dumber. Children and adults alike are not really learning when they search for answers on the internet.” These are phrases that are most commonly used by opponents of the rapidly adjusting modern society we live in today. However, cell phones and social media are an attribute to society in many ways.
My Dad always tells me about how he met so many people in his life and how many of them impacted him even though he only met them once. After saying that he always asks me the same question followed by the same statement. “Nick could you imagine if all those people had their faces locked into their phones? I probably wouldn’t have met most of them”. He shakes his head and laughs because he believes the generation that I’m growing up in is lacking interaction with people. He sees us meeting people through social media and blames our phones for us being too insecure to go up to people and introduce ourselves. His proof is in The Breakfast Club. “Imagine if those kids in detention had phones. None of them would have said one word and none of them would have gotten to know each other. Instead they would have sat there and played games on their phones.” I think he has good reasoning for this, for the days without cell phones were completely different then now where they are so replete that everyone has one.
Learning how to communicate is often overlooked but its an essential skill for anyone. An example of how important this truly is would be a job interview. Everyone at some point will have to interview for a job to support themselves and their family. At most interviews, employers are looking for people who seem to communicate well with others and can present themselves by communicating their attributes. These communications skills that are necessary aren’t easy to come by. Although one may think it would be easy, many people wont be able to successfully land a job because of communication. One person may be the most qualified, but if you can not communicate well then it will not matter.
There is about as many cell phones in this world as there are people and about 100 cell phone services.Let these cell phones be the rise of our society not the fall.Cellphones have changed society because they make it easier to contact people, to get information, and to get work done faster.
Without a doubt, cell phones have had an enormous impact on the world. We should be grateful that Bell persevered instead of quitting. The cellular phone has affected everyday life in a positive and negative way. Our world relies so much on this device, that we can only be optimistic and push science to find ways to eliminate the health risks of cell phone
In this present generation, everywhere you look someone is either talking, texting, or surfing the web on their cell phone. Even children can undertake the features and tools of a cell phone. According to statistics, “Ninety-one percent of American adults and sixty percent of teens own a cell phone” (Borreli). A clear majority of induvial can say that they are part of one of those stated percentages. Likewise, many people depend on the handy device and pay less attention to the effects that cell phones have on the significance of social interactions. All things considered, cell phones have contributed positive impacts through keeping in touch with others to emergency use, as well as eroded social skills to fatal accidents resulting in negative impacts.
Ever since cellular phones first came to be in the 1980’s, people have been using them to carry out conversations, ask questions, or meet new people. Once cell phones reached a height of internet capabilities, smartphones were created. Cell phones from then on ended up changing society entirely. This research study could explain the effects of cell phones from their creation to today’s society and how they would influence the future generations. This study would also focus on the evolution of how cell phones become even more involved in our lives and how they truly influence us. This study would be beneficial to our generation by teaching them how technology is expanding, and the lives of humans will get easier as time goes on. Furthermore, this study would be beneficial as a report on how cell phones came to be in our history. This would expectedly heighten the awareness of society to how different our lives could be according to technological development. To the future researchers, this study could be used as a base for data in future development into how society adapts.
Following the time when the mid 1980s, phones have been rapidly moving their route into our commonplace lives, particularly with the presentation of cam telephones in the early part of the new thousand years. As cells develop they have more of an effect on our commonplace lives and I need to exactly how much they are affecting. Similarly as with new engineering in whatever other structure, phones have changed enormously over their generally short life compasses. As these progressions happen, so does the populaces like and here and there loathe for these new advanced cells. One of the real issues happening with cell telephones in present day times is that individuals use them at wrong times, for example, when they are looking at of a market. Despite the fact that there are a couple negative perspectives about phones, my exploration and my paper are going to mostly the profits of Pdas in the United States of America. My exploration concentrates on a few key regions in wireless correspondence, for example, the advancement of Pdas, content informing, Pdas and other PDA applications and in addition my own particular exploration including a overview that I dispersed to some of my colleagues.
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Developing better communication skills is more than talking to someone to get a point across. Listening and understanding the key components of the conversation is a part of having communication skills. By listening, issues would be processed better which would help establish a common ground between the people that are having a conversation.