Negative Effects Of Cell Phones In The Workplace

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

In the modern-day world, there are about 6.8 billion cell phone subscriptions. Mobile telephones have really changed the way we do things in our daily life. Before cell phones were invented individuals were more interactive with each other. In the late 1900’s, Martin Cooper invented the first mobile telephone. Today we have a variety of mobile phones to choose from such as Apple and Samsung. Widespread cell phone use has definitely affected the world negatively because it is a distraction, can be harmful, and addicting.

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

A phone can also alter your personality. If you’re the type of person that would stop to help someone in need, if you are on your phone there’s a good chance you wouldn’t take that second to lend a hand, even though it only takes one hand to operate a cell phone. One study took average people who were on their cell phones and average people who were not making phone calls and put them all in the same situation. Without them knowing a random person dressed to be a wounded veteran would come by and drop a stack of magazines. Out of the 33 people using phones, there were only 9% that stop to help this person for just a second. For the 29people that weren’t using their phones a whopping 72% stopped to help. We already consumed by work and have

In Mark Glaser’s October 22, 2007, article, “How Cell Phones Are Killing Face-to-Face Interactions,” Glaser discusses how cell phones are causing people to no longer interact with each other.

Cell phones allows people to not have face to face conversations. When talking on the phone, only the voice can be heard. The facial expression and body language of the person talking cannot be seen through a cell phone. Not being able to read body language is a problem when socializing because an individual might not know what other people are trying to say to him or her. Some conversations need to be handle face to face not on the phone. For example, one day my friend Reyna was talking, or should I say yelling, with her boyfriend on the phone. Reyna could have had this conversation face to face with her boyfriend. Texting has also contributed to social isolation. Texting isolates a person even more because not only can the person not be seen, the voice of the other person cannot be heard. People want to do everything trough a cell phone, but there is stuff that needs to be handle face to

Do you have dinner with your family or with your phone? Having dinner with your family creates more bonding but having dinner with your phone or technology cause you to get dumb and dumber exponentially. Meaning starting slowly but increasing rapidly over time. From the article by Ron Friedman “A New Year’s resolution for the workplace,” Friedman talks about how study shows that devices or technology has been (can) cut our thinking ability in the workplace. He also talks about how phones can be such a distraction and you can get most out of it by keeping it away. This article talks about how technology is getting in the way of you making friendships or interpersonal connections with humans. A survey from “Pew Research Survey” from feb. 14-23 of 2014. “When is it okay to use your phone?” from 4 different generations. In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, everything in the community is controlled by technology and that really limits them from knowing that technology is only hurting them. Technology hinders society because it gets in the way of person to person interaction, community is too dependent on technology, and lowers cognitive performance.

“In homes, in social settings, and at workplaces, where people once interacted with each other and engaged in actual conversation, silence has now taken over as everyone’s attention is dominated by their email, their text messages, and their social media.” Nowadays, many cannot imagine life without a cellphone. Yet, as much has cellphones have plenty of pros, they also come with a whole lot of cons. In what ways are cellphones changing the way we live today?

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.

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

This distraction follows society to the workplace, because our society do not want to be away for the social networking. Many employees need their cell on their desk in the workplace because they are so

Decades ago we were all wired in-desktops, game consoles, and dial-up internet. Now, everything has become wireless and pocket sized. Emails are not just at home or work but are accessible at the palms of our hands at any given time. Messages are sent back and forth within seconds; a picture or video can be shared to the world in minutes. Advances have changed the way we experience social interaction but what is really happening? Does an individual’s level of cell phone usage significantly influence social interaction or does it make it worse by creating social anxiety when these devises are not present which would result in the development of a dependency?

Do you realize how much you use your phone? And how phones affect your social life? Cell Phones affect society in good and bad ways. It's impossible to imagine a time when there were no phones, which was a long time ago. During 1983 the first phone was made, it took 10 hours to charge the battery. Before smartphone were invented. We even have portable chargers now. No one could imagine life without phones. Weather your checking twitter or texting a friend. Everyone likes to talk, listen and learn about new things. Todd Stark weather said “It’s up to the student whether or not they choose to spend class time listening and learning, or wasting their time on the phone.”

Cell phones have become more and more popular in the United States as years have gone by. They are now nothing like how they were years ago. Since cellular devices have evolved employees have become able to do increasingly more jobs on the phones. For example, during work employees are now able to check social media, listen to music, take quality photos, and play games all on a small mobile device. Because of the evolution of the phone, employees have certainly become less effective. Cell phone usage has disturbed the work place because it decreases productivity, endangers employees, and lowers quality of work.