Negative Effects Of Cell Phones

    (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.

The article states, “Fifty percent of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices...A larger number of parents, 59% said their teens were addicted. The poll involved 1,240 interviews with parents and their children, ages 12 to 18.” Wallace and other parents interviewed for the story, are convinced that teens are practically attached to their phones, even the teenagers admit this statement it true.

“Put down the phone, turn off 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 negative effects smartphone usage has created among the young 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 issues the smartphone usage has created on generations. Twenge narrates different stories about young teen’s experiences with phones and social media. Twenge also provides readers with statistics and some studies of many effects caused by smartphones. Twenge gives emphasize to differences between generations. According to Twenge, today’s

One of the major problems in the world today is the dependency that teenagers have on their cell phones. The majority of people depend on their cell phones for everything that they do. They feel like they have to constantly check it to look at what is new on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They forget to focus on the world around them and become absorbed in the online world. Some suffer from panic attacks if they don’t have their phone with them. They might not need their phone, but they have to have it with them.

Cell phones are used every single day by millions of people across the world. But do we use them more than we should? Many people think that our generation is addicted to technology and cell phones, and I agree with them; everyone is addicted. Kelly Wallace, wrote a Times article “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted to Their Smartphones” and said that “Most adults, teens, and children use their phones for sometimes 24 hours a day”. Thousands of teens and children fail in school or lose sleep daily because they are always on their phones nonstop. I think that I'm not as addicted to using my cell phone as some of the people that I have met, although I usually use it every day to text family and friends rather than using it for social media

According to an article published by Alabama State University, “Life is what happens when your smartphone is charging ”, suggesting that the modern cell phone, or smartphone, has become increasingly popular among most Americans daily lives. One reason cell phones have become popular is the numerous advantages that they offer; information can be accessed in seconds, communication is faster than ever, the list goes on. Cell phones have even become an integral part of learning (Cell Phones). Despite the numerous advantages of having a cell phone, the use of such a device can be addicting. Some might say that the Millennials of our society have a cell phone addiction. Recent studies have been conducted to observe and to determine what smartphone addiction is.

Teens are becoming more distracted than ever before. “Experts say each beep, chime, or chirp seizes your attention, triggering [a] fight-or-flight response” (Kaminski). The urge to look at the notification that popped up on the screen of a cell phone, “comes from a chemical called dopamine” (Kaminski). The chemical makes it difficult to resist all the notifications a teen receives. “After [the] false alarm pumps adrenaline through [his or her] body, it takes [his or her] brain up to 30 minutes to regain focus” (Kaminski). “Technology [also] makes it harder for [one] to focus and get work done” (Lewis). When using a cell phone it takes the brain 30 minutes to attain a state of concentration needed to conclude a task in hand (Lewis). However, “It takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a single task, and one makes up to 50 percent more errors” (Kaminski). How much time does a teen spend looking at a phone-in-hand? [An] “average teenager spends more than 7 hours a day looking at a phone, tablet, laptop, or TV” (Lewis). Furthermore, a teen spends more than 53 hours on, or in front of a technical device per week (Lewis). Is the communication on a cell phone overwhelming the lives of teens? Despite the daily conversations a teen has in person, one will send and receive more than 3,339 texts just in one month alone (Lewis). Kristen Lewis, author of “Your Phone Could

Iphones is the phone that is breaking the charts and everyone in the world wants one, but teenagers use them for the wrong reasons such as posting fights or arguing with people they don't even know. Nowadays teenagers don't even go outside anymore, they rather be on there phone on social media sites doing nothing at all. The social media site are just another way to distract kids as well, instead of doing home work they rather be in snapchat or twitter killing there brain and don’t even know it.

Teenagers are constantly on their cell phone, which leads to extreme overuse of it. In an acknowledgeable book, Ling (2004) described how teenagers use cell phones and the direct effects of having one. Adolescence is a period in someone’s life in which they develop their own identity and self-esteem. So, teenagers are at a very influential time in their life and cell phones take advantage of that. When a teen decides to use a cell phone, they are not acting with their own ideas, but rather the culture of their peers. Mobile phones play a role in the teen’s peer group. Since a teen is still developing their own identity and sense of self-esteem, they fall into the vicious cycle of only doing what other teens are.

Janis Elspas, founder of Mommy Blog Expert, says that she, “believes the rules and boundaries parents set for their children when they get their first cell phone or smartphone might be helpful in heading off any addictions later on.”(9)  Elspas’ children, now 18 and 20, didn’t own their first cell phones until they were at least a junior in high school with money to pay for part of their phone bills.  Elspas also has a no phone rule at table which goes to her and her husband, their children and any friends her kids bring over.  She believes, “Such a rule can prove to kids, firsthand, that they can ‘survive’ without having to see or use their smartphone constantly”(12)  While phone addiction is still running rampant the Common Sense Media poll found that more than a third, 37%, of teens very often or at least occasionally try to cut down on the time they spend on their electronics.  Many parents complain about how this generation overuses and can’t seem to put their phones down, but many parents will admit they don’t always have the easiest time unplugging themselves.  Twenty-seven percent of parents feel that they are addicted to their phones as well and 28% of teens believe they are as well. Both teens and parents admit to checking their at least hourly with parents at 69% and teens at 78%.  About half of parents admitted to feeling the need to immediately

Children with zero social skills, unable to communicate face to face with one another is credibly upon the nation due to the rate of the cell phone dependability children have. Cell Phones have plagued society’s youth of their innocence and how they are meant to live their childhood. Cell phones have degenerated the youth's mind and have created a society of robots. Childhood is time of growth and happiness, and cell phones not only have robbed kids of their childhood, but has created a fake identity for them. In the early stages of life is when kids learn and discover who they truly are, but when a cell phone is put in front of them they get a negligent learning experiences that affects their view in life. And now almost every adolescent has been given access to mobile device from an age which should be free of the technological world. “Nearly 80 percent of teenagers said they check their phones hourly, and 72 percent said they felt the need to respond to texts and social media messages immediately. In the same study, 50 percent of teens said they feel addicted to their mobile devices”(Gonzalez 4). The abundance of negative effects that the cellphone brings, outweighs all the positive assets a cell phone does provide. Despite the many conveniences cell phones afford the user, the increase in cell phone usage has created a society unable to communicate sincerely and exhibit compassion.

Cell phones can be a very imperative device for an adolescent, especially in this new generation we live in today. Children now have

The cell phone, perhaps the most important invention of the twenty-first century, revolutionized the way we communicate by making it more mobile. However, even with its accomplishments why has it become so popular in the past few decades. The simple answer is that cell phones have become a near essential part of everyday life, as they allow for parents to instantly communicate with children, connect to the internet a for near infinite amount of knowledge, keep up with people across the world through talk and text, and to entertain the individual when they are feeling bored. However, despite all the good that cell phones can do which makes them so essential there are several effects of this which must be addressed. The effects which will be addressed are distracting the individual, connecting people to the world, and social isolation.

Mobile devices affect teens in a negative way. Numerous teens struggle academically because of their cell phone usage. Most teens don’t know the misfortune that they can get into if they don’t know how to use the internet right. As a result, they fall into poor habits, feeling compelled to check their social media even when it’s unnecessary. In addition to bad habits, “Smartphones present a huge distraction in classrooms, where teachers are forced to compete for students’ attention” (Katz). This can lead to using wrong websites and getting in contact with strangers. When young adults are constantly on their cellular devices, they experience negative effects of social media and other websites that they use as a distraction.

Streaming and surfing the web are both big parts of a teen’s life. Teens spend much of their day surfing the web mostly on Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, etc. or doing something he/she should not be doing. The reason teens use cell phones