Speech On Smart Phones

Studies show that you can be addicted to your phone, tablet, or computer. You can be so addicted you can be on it all day. It can take over your brain, and it is like if you are addicted to drugs such as cocaine. You can't stop, you buy more devices that have screens.

According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, nearly two-thirds of the United States adults own a smartphone, which is up from 35% in 2011 (Anderson and Posts). As the acceptance of smartphones expand, many question whether it will have an adverse impact on our lives. Author Nicholas Carr indirectly criticizes the use of a smartphone; however, smartphones, such as Apple’s iPhone can have both positive and negative impacts on a population.

Studies have found that as the phone use increases, your attention goes elsewhere, “revealing that the more heavily student relied on their phones in their everyday lives, the greater the cognitive penalty they suffered” (Carr 3). The more focus a cell phone receives the more a person will suffer mentally. At UCSD around 520 students were given two standardized tests of intellectual acuity. “The only variable in the experiment was the location of the subjects’ smartphones. Some of the students.. place their phones in front of them on their desks; others were told to stow their phones in their pockets.. others were required to leave their phones in a different room” (Carr 3). The results from this study were conspicuous. It’s self-evident that anyone with phone insight had worst scores than those who didn't have their phones at all or had them in their pockets. Technology has take over us and it is draining our

Before this generation we would immerse ourselves in relationships. Now, could you say that all your Facebook friends are your actual friends? Sometimes all we need is a hug from someone that we have a genuine relationship with. People wouldn’t be able to get that if they constantly use their phones to become “social” they will never amount to their true potential in relationships. Bryce Skylar a writer for People’s World says, “The problem, it appears, is that social media has infiltrated every aspect of daily life”. When you put down your phone, you will create an endless opportunity to gain organic relationships.

Technology has made many advancements through the past few years. Cellphones particularly have become more advanced and popular. These electronic devices have granted access to an endless amount of resources you can use to simplify your everyday life. However, the technological upgrades in cellphones have also provoked an addiction to the excessive use of this electronic. The cellphone addiction has become very common among many people especially the younger generations. This addiction compared to other addictions might seem harmless however, its side affects can be very serious and shouldn’t be overlooked. Throughout, my research I have discovered how a cellphone addiction negatively effects your physical, social, and mental health. Effectively demonstrating how dangerous a cellphone addiction can be to the individuals who suffer it.

In accordance with the article, “Are Smartphones Making Us Stupid?”, I believe that smartphones are not making us stupid. First of all, smartphones help us to acquire more knowledge and information. The article states, “The fact that we can ask a question and get an answer, wherever we are, means that our discussions can get past disputes over facts so that we can talk about the real issues; what we make of the facts.” Often times in an argument, people fight over basic facts instead of the real issues. With a smartphone, you are one Google search away from those facts, and then you can form an opinion and argue like a champion. That’s pretty smart if you ask me. In addition, the author states, “Because these devices are always with us, we

A quote from Nicholas Carr summarizes the problem of addiction, he says “The smartphone, more than any other gadget, steals from us the opportunity to maintain our attention, to engage in contemplation and reflection, or even to be alone with our thoughts” (Carr, The Shallows). Similar to the Tom Purcell’s cartoon, the children are being criticized for becoming addicted to their smartphones. In the cartoon, we can see children are sitting on their chairs, hooked to their devices without noticing the child standing in the middle with a soccer ball. This addiction can cause a major disease called nomophobia. According to Psychology Today, “Many suffer from anxiety if they lose their phone, even if only for a few minutes.

According to a study conducted by New York spine surgeon Kenneth Hansraj, bending your head to look at the mobile device in your hands can put up to 60 pounds of pressure on your neck. And it's not just teens who are checking their phones constantly; most adults are also obsessed with their phones and tablets, using the devices for texting, videos, and social media. “Text neck is not just a texting problem, “says Fishman. “Text neck is a gaming problem. Text neck is an emailing problem.”

Children and adults now have a higher risk of being exposed to health risks. These include brain activity, sleep patterns, reaction time and even back problems. According to a 2015 study about back problems, the most common back problem was related to their phone . People “texting can add up to 50 pounds of pressure,” on the spine while on their phone. That pressure is about the same weight as a seven year old child.

Birdwell's (2007) article, "Addicted to phones?", describes a problem about some people are addicted to phones. She focuses on the negative effects of phones dependence and encourages people to control themselves to use the phone. She states that anxious is one of the effects of phones dependence.

But this has ceased to exist after the introduction of Smartphone 's and the internet. People prefer to chat in the many social media offered on the internet and accessed by their Smartphone 's, play games, listen to music and even blog than strike a conversation with a person sited next (Tuckle, 2011, 23). As much as people are communicating more, a threat of communication becoming more of quantity than quality is emerging. As much as the use of Smartphone 's and internet has expanded people socially and geographically, it drives people from authentic relations. Too much use of Smartphone 's and web results in declining people social circle. It is a fact that the more time people spend on their Smartphone 's and the internet the less time they has with their families, friends and other people in the society.

One way that teens are being impacted by over using their cell phones is emotionally. A study by Adriana Bianchi, and James G. Phillips showed the more teens use their phones the more likely they are to be anxious, depressed, and have a low self-esteem

Believe it or not, smartphones make us more stupid, than smart. Smartphones are definitely in the category of a strong source industry to work for, but they are truly making us more dumb than smart. If you haven’t noticed yet, which would be surprising if you haven’t since everyone's heads are down nowadays locked into a rectangle object lighting up… They are to be taking over our human brains. No matter how many cool things and interesting ideas we get from them, we shouldn’t be using them for everything we do. The reason why are smartphones are making us stupid, is being it’s a distraction from more important things in life, it makes us more lazy to do things on our own, and it makes us more obsessive in our lives.

Did you know, the smartphone you have been addicted to could later give you a severe back pain? If not, you better get a reality check to beware of the pain hidden in the excessive usage of your phone. Amid the excessive usage of phones, texting remains a major factor that takes in most of your time. Texting is said to bring stress to your spine. Most of us are unconscious about our postures while texting or using other gadgets. We hardly care about how we sit or look at the phone screens. But, now is the time when we need to be conscious of how much we bend while looking at the phone screens. For this, you first need to know how a bad posture may affect your spine. This has been explained well by Dr. Kenneth Hansraj in his study. In a research

Phones is something almost everyone has nowadays. Even small kids use phones to play with instead of actually playing in real life and it has come to the point where we use our smartphones way too much and we are obsessed with them. Dr.James Roberts, a professor of marketing at Baylor University and author of “Too Much of a Good Thing” believe that if you get irritable, anxious or just uncomfortable when you are not having your phone around you, there are some big red flags. The author goes on to say that there is only a small percentage of society that is obsessed or addicted to their phones, but that almost everyone overuse their phones on a daily basis and the problem is getting bigger and bigger.