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    In Jean Twenge’s 2017 article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?,” she suggests that the presence of smartphones is having negative and lasting effects on adolescents. She claims that smartphones have caused a major increase in adolescent depression and suicide rates. However, her hasty connections between cellphone use and teenage depression, sleep deprivation, and suicide simplify a multi-faceted problem and give it a simple, easy cause. The article begins by explaining Twenge’s credentials

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    influence in each other’s life. Everybody uses their smartphone and laptops for about anything that they want to search up. Some people go into websites that give them cookies that are good or bad for your device. Plenty of people around the world uses social media to contact their family members and friends around the world. Most Americans in today's society are just too lazy to go to the library and do it themselves. Now we have a smartphone in today's society to give people the right answer for

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    smart phone near them at all times of the day. Most people even result to sleeping beside their phones, refusing to part from this object. Many people own a smartphone and the number of ownership is proceeding to increasing in the world due to the infatuation and distractions they give people. Societies seemingly harmless obsession with smartphones can lead to unhealthy family habits, dangerous distractions, and negative effects in youth reaching their full potential. Weise mentions a study indicating

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    iPhone has changed things. In the 2017 article How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds by Nicholas Carr of the Wall Street Journal, readers are given some very eye-opening information regarding the possibly impending epidemic of human addiction to cellular devices. In this article, Carr attempts to explain the hidden side affects of increased smartphone use, and the dependencies that they invoke in the human mind. From Carr’s point of view, smartphones decrease our ability to remember important information

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    A reporter for CNN, Kelly Wallace, addresses her concern about the future generation in her article, “Half of Teens Think They’re Addicted To Their Smartphones.” After pointing out factual information from a variety of polls and reviews about mobile device usage, she expresses her panic over digital addiction. Not only does she mention teens suffering from this potential “public health threat,” but parents are added in as well. As Wallace collects information from various surveys, she also gathers

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    sentence styles to develop his argument: compound and simple sentences. He uses compound sentences mainly to illustrate the divergence between feelings caused by smartphones in their users. On the other hand, he uses simple sentences when he wants to address to his argument that people are confusing the dependency of smartphones with addiction. In this way, he utilizes simple sentences to make clear statements that people are not addicted on their phones, but merely making the best possible use of the

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    12 Unexpected Symptoms of Phone Addiction by John discusses about Nomophobia – phone addiction, and its symptoms. John claims that more and more people, especially teens, are addicted to smartphones, and that such thing has led to a lot of physical and psychological effects among this people. People who are addicted to their phone can lose their mind when they are awy from their phones. In this article, John purpose 12 symptoms of phone addiction which he thinks are the most prominent. • The first

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    a new model is introduced? iPhones are considered smartphones, they have to ability to browse the internet, send messages, take pictures, and play videos, all with a touch of a finger. Although smartphones make people’s lives easier, they impose many psychological threats to human beings such as sleep deprivation, stress, and monopolizing attention. Repeated psychological threats to a person can harm their body enormously. Even though smartphones cause psychological effects, psychology might be the

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    Smartphones, the internet, and media in general, have been known to create division and controversy among different age groups. Some older generations look down on these newer innovations, finding that their negative aspects outweigh their positive ones. Researchers continue to study media, searching for definitive proof as to whether media is good or bad for young people. Jean Twenge, a psychology professor who studies generational differences, wrote an article in September of 2017 titled, “Have

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    some serious problems in term of society, physical, and mental health for human; and specifically, children and teenagers are two direct objects of smartphone addicted. Thus, parents should monitor the time their children spend on mobile devices. One of the biggest reasons that parents should limit the time that their kids are spending on smartphones, is the bad effects on one’s physical health. Either less vision ability or poor sleep is the most concern problem. A recent survey from the Wales Institute

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