Smart Phones Have Potentially Limitless Abilities

Technology has been a large part of American culture for the last 200 years and continues to grow more each year. This has made a large impact on our everyday lives and how we interact with one another. The U.S. alone sends over 6 billion texts each day! (Textrequest). This takes away quality time engaging with friends and family. Phones and other devices have taken over our way of communicating, thus affecting our relationships with others.

Our Children want to interact with their parent's and have meaningful conversations. They want to connect in ways that a smart device can not build a relationship and trust. Talking about life its trials and tribulations that will help our children grow. Our kids want to do things differently now that they have experienced these smartphones all of their lives. Our kids want to get back to socialization and building partnerships and friendships that have to mean. Using cell phones cannot replace the emotional and psychological connection that we share as human beings.

I absolutely believe new technology has hurt our social interaction, but it has also helped it. Calling or texting from another room in the same house, or doing the same to a neighbor, instead of running next door like we did when I was a child. New technology has helped out of the area family and friends stay personally connected by video chats. Instead of just hearing someone’s voice or reading their words written down, they get to see their friend or family and interact with them in a way you just cannot do over the phone. The best contact is in-person contact, but that is not always possible, due to travel restrictions, finances, lack of passport, or whatever the reason may be (Student Admin, 2012). You miss the little things the person’s face reveals while they are talking. You can see if they are excited about something, or angry over something that

Looking back to ten years ago, many of us would have never thought technology would have taken off like it did. In order to communicate with others we would have to physically be in there presence or call them from a landline telephone (if available). Today, social media has created several outlet for individuals across the globe to communicate. Sites like YouTube, Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram allow users to communicate with each other without having to be physically present. If you are an owner of a smart phone then you are able to message, share photos, and video chat from the palm of your hand.

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

Everyone wants to stay connected in each others lives by never missing a beat. More like never missing a text message in this day and age. Life is constantly finding its way to become full of responsibilities with little time to take a break as it is. Texting my family and friends is easier to respond to when I 'm taking care of my daughter and studying for school. Even a phone call seems better so I can multitask, cleaning the house or driving while talking on the phone. Communication is an essential key and important human need. By using technology, there is a deeper connection to communicating than some acknowledge.

The smart phone has become more than that of just an accessory only to be seen among the rich and wealthy it has become a social standard were ones personality can be understood by one’s phone. Now a day it appears as though almost every one owns a mobile phone and the teachers can tell. The smart phone can access the web from almost any location and there special phone that are used only for social media. Speaking of social media the ability for one to communicate with a far away relative was never more of a dream until recently. Well it was just in the late 90s when phone were the size of dinosaurs, extremely expensive and the only thing they could do was call. Now they are smaller than the computers back, ten times stronger and at a quarter of their size. It is safe to say that phones are going to be as common as

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.

There are different generations to define age groups of people. For example, the Post-Millennials are ages 17-0. These generations are all apart of a technological revolution. The cell phone has become a crucial part of everyday lives of people in these recent generations. It is predicted that the Post-Millennials and the Millennials have the most cell phone usage than any generation before it. It is also predicted that these generations received their first cell phone at a younger age than the generations before. The Generations before are accustomed to talking face-to-face, and don't need another form of communication. But, the most recent generation uses their cell phones so much, they may be losing the ability to communicate with someone without any form of technology.

Teens usually felt more comfortable to talk to someone when it is not face to face. In another article on technology it says, "This technology also provides opportunities to make rewarding social connections for those teens and those barely younger who have difficulty developing friendships in traditional social settings or because of limited contact with same-aged peers"(2). Accordingly this shows, that teens are more likely to communicate with a digital device than by any other

Teens have many different uses for phones. In the article "Teenagers and New Technology " it says that cell phones offer teenagers "new worlds of opportunity." The article also says that new technology are essential to success in Today's world. It says that tools like texting and social media can help needs to all teenagers like defining personal identity and establishing independence. Cell phones are new and exciting avenues for teens to do what they want to do, for example flirt, boast, gossip, get news, complain, and tease. As well, cell phones today can take and share pictures, play games, listen to music, swap videos, and access the Internet

In recent years the growth of cell phones use has increased. People use their cell phones for an array of things such as texting friends, sending work email, taking pictures and videos of loves one. In fact, Hyman cited that people take and receive less than 10 calls a day, regardless of their age. I personally prefer texting as my main source of communication. However, as I get older I do often wonder whether or not cell phones have infringed on my social interaction with my family, friends, and peers.

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.

Communication has had a big impact on family life in our society. Cell phones have become very popular in the past few years. One big cell phone that has been very popular with younger generations is the Nextel cell phones. One reason for this is because the Nextel phone

At first, I was going to analyze and write about smartphones, however I found it more efficient to write also about a particular smartphone to narrow it down from such a broad technological artifact, such as answering who designed it, what for, what their position and the impact they want to have on society was, and their future visions. Therefore, I chose the iPhone as the centerpiece of smartphones I will be analyzing and an emphasis on applications. However, some of this information is relevant and interchangeable to all other smartphones. IPhones and smartphones allow us to access constant information and offer it the way we want it, as it is completely customizable now to fit our learning style. They keep us organized, send information to us in different ways, even shape and offer solutions such as for politics, economies, problems whether individual ones or globally. Smartphones capitalize on shared knowledge and has opened the door to inventors and those who have the knowledge to make our world a more connected place and lives easier by sharing it with us to use. We are able to communicate with other people far off, through space-time compression or shrinking-space to gather news and information.