The Article ' Etiquette : Reintroducing Real- Life And A Smartphone Obsessed Society `` By Ian Brown

Today, smartphones are everywhere. Just about everybody uses them from the time they get up, to the time they go to bed. With this personal tool, a lot of people have seen positive effects from using the device. However, some believe that people are going to far with a smartphone and that now it’s becoming more than a personal companion. This is what Nicholas Carr believes in “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds.” In the essay Carr argues that smartphones are having a negative effect on people’s minds. He strengthens his argument by use of fact, word choice, and emotional appeal.

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.

As technology advances, and the newest cell phone hits the market there are thousands of people lined up outside to purchase it. As we all know, most teenagers today cannot go more than a couple of hours without checking their phones, and being updated on what is going on in the virtual world around them. The funny thing is however, that they are actually completely ignoring the real world around them. After conducting some research I came across this statistic, “25 percent of cellphone owners in a marriage or partnership have felt their spouse or partner was distracted by their cell phone when they were together.” This quote shows that cell phones impair human interaction even on romantic levels. I myself actually have had personal experiences with this topic, and it is astonishing how being a waitress, i’ve noticed that tons of my customers have been so focused on their cellphones while out to dinner, rather than spending time while they are out eating with. It has gotten to the point where it takes them a little bit to even acknowledge my presence at the table. If its not using cell phones during dinner its using cell phones to send that quick message while driving. The following quote ¨During daylight hours, approximately 660,000 drivers are using cellphones while driving. That creates enormous potential for deaths and injuries on U.S. roads. Teens were the largest age

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

Technological advances during the last fifty years of human history have given billions of people instant access to unprecedented communication methods. Individuals are no longer limited to letter writing and sending telegrams to convey a verbal message. E-mails, text messaging, video chat, instant messenger, and various social media outlets are all platforms for human communication in the modern world. One of the most significant communication devices to surface from the technological serge is the cellular telephone. Every individual with a cell phone has the ability to call any person, place, or agency at anytime as long as the individual is within the service provider's coverage area. The prevalence of cell phone owners has increased the use of cell phones in public places, such as schools, restaurants, and theaters, and their use in public is associated with both positive and negative implications. Some argue cell phones should be banned from public places because they are a social distraction, inhibit the user from being able to focus properly, and can cause safety concerns by interfering with airplanes and hospital equipment. Despite the negative impacts associated with cell phone use in public places, cell phones must be allowed in public for safety reasons, emergency scenarios, and to support the individual's right to personal freedom.

In her essay “No Need to Call,” Sherry Turkle makes the claim that smart phones, texting in particular, are having a negative effect on the way humans interact and communicate with each other. The issue of how smart phones are changing our social behaviors is important because it can potentially impact the future of the human race. With smart phones, computers and tablets, our society is entering into uncharted territory and we cannot be certain of how the outcome will change our social interactions. Figuring out whether or not these changes are negative or positive is a pertinent topic for all people because everyone is affected by these new technologies in their everyday lives, whether they have them or not. Turkle believes that the way we are communicating through these devices is starting to develop us into humans who are too reliant on impersonal forms of communication to the point that it is changing how we interact with others.

Many individuals feel that staying associated with the outside world is more imperative than concentrating out and about ahead, in spite of the fact that it isn't. It can hurt others out and about who are doing nothing other than attempting to make it to their destination securely. On the off chance that individuals would open their eyes to the threats of messaging while driving, less auto collisions would occur each year and the streets would be much more secure. Occupied drivers need to know the position they place others in and in addition themselves. While in the driver's seat, drivers ought to never guide their regard for their mobile phone and ought to dependably keep their eyes out and

In his June 12, 2015 article” Flick Flick”, published in Commonweal, Rand Richard Cooper argues that the technology of “handheld devices” interferes with being in present with others and being present with ourselves. He measures pieces of evidence to illustrate his point; for example, he mentions teens in a school bus busy with their phones and they do not communicate with each other. The author uses technology; however, he agrees that with the excessive uses of technology we lose the ability to communicate, the personal freedom and our time to our selves. Also the author claims that we lose the appreciation of nature around us and our ability to do the daily actions. Cooper even explains how people interact with their phones and cannot stop

All humans have their own rights to communicate with other people in any situations. Some people talk to their close friends, families, or people who live far from them. In this century, there have been an invention that make it easier for people to communicate, even with the people who live across the ocean. This invention is called cellphone. As the other inventions would be, it has affected people who are using it; moreover, they use it in every chance they have to look at the cellphone. However, this invention has changed people in the present day. “Distracted driving is a dangerous epidemic on America’s roadways. In 2013, 3,154 were killed in distracted driving crashes” (Distraction.gov). The distraction that it meant includes texting or using a cellphone, talking to passengers, eating and drinking, adjusting a radio, or watching videos.

Being distracted by your phone for a split second can not only change your life forever, but possibly someone else’s around you. Checking to see texts, answering calls or seeing the latest tweet has become more important than road safety. Society is forgetting how to communicate with each other without the use of technology. While sitting in a waiting room or standing in an elevator, take a look around you. In todays society, rather than talking to each other we are more inclined to use out cell phones to pass the time.

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.

“Its estimated that 99% of teens use their cell phones while driving.” (“46% of Teenagers Admit to Text Messaging while Driving”). There is more to interacting on the phone than people realize. There are three major key factors that play a role in phone distractions, first is visual- actually seeing what comes up on the phone, second is manual- acknowledge what you saw, and lastly cognitive- thinking about what you saw. For example, Sara Harper was a high school student who recently died from texting and driving. She left school for off campus lunch to get her and her friends food and she received a text from that friend telling her what she wanted to eat. She visually saw the message, and manually replied. While looking at her phone Sara ran off the road and hit a light pole which caused her truck to flip 3 times. Sara died on impact. That one message was important enough to end her life. Some people do not realize their actions affect them, and the people around them. In 2014 “roughly 434,179 people were affected by distracted drivers.” (“Facts and Statistics”). We can prevent these injuries and deaths by keeping our eyes one the road, keeping the phone out of reach, and avoid any type of interactions on the

As technology advances it seems humans rely too much on it to the point where they don't do anything themselves, it can be very distracting and harmful in some cases. Technology has become a great part in how many of us live day to day, many of us cannot go a day let alone a minute without our phones. With our phones in hand we do not pay attention to what is going on around us and miss out on many things like what happens when we are driving. There has been major accidents where the driver, passengers, and pedestrians have been victims of a car crash due to the driver using their phone. No one should be allowed to use their phone if they are the ones in the drivers seat, being aware of your surroundings is key to when you are driving in

As technology advances, people become notorious for using their electronics in inappropriate situations. Teenagers in present day commonly text at the dinner table, while crossing a street, and even while driving. Not only do teenagers text, their parents do, as well. Texting is a frequent fad among the young adults, it also a convenient method for parents to keep in contact with their children. People nowadays have to be in contact with friends and family at every moment of the day especially while driving it is the equivalent of driving under the influence, using hand-held devices (like Bluetooth) will decrease the number of accidents caused by phones, and studies show texting reduces a persons reaction time.

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