Smartphones And Its Effects On Society

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.

“More than three billion people worldwide now use the internet (Time), and 80 percent of them access if from their smartphones” (Smart Insights). A smartphone is a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, and much more. There is an abundant amount of smartphone brands out there in the world and while they all cost different prices, they all perform the same job. Each person uses their smartphone for various reasons, whether it’s for work or to make calls or texts. Smartphones have changed society in various ways, both good and bad. Although countless individuals think that smartphones have ruined American society, smartphones have actually benefited society because of more safety precautions, information on hand, and entertainment.

In today’s society, people view the world through the very handheld electronic devices in their pockets, rather than going outside and experiencing life for themselves. They use their phones to communicate, share their everyday experiences, connect with their family, friends and loved ones. whether it may be from the other side of the world, or just the room. Cell phones have revolutionized the way humans communicate and socialize, ever since the first cell phone to hit the market in 1973 by John F. Mitchell. As much as cell phones are helpful and convenient, they have changed the world dramatically. This seem like an extreme claim to make, but evidence shows that cell phones have made the world a little more difficult. They have caused many problems such as fatal car accidents due to distracted drivers on the road, as well as sexting and revenge porn, which leads to a form of cyberbullying. Even cell phones themselves are harming their overall health, their social interaction, and even teen literacy. People may not have a solution to these problems but they need to find

Our cellphones are instruments or symbols of communication. Our dependence in our phones increases overtime. We can’t get out in the house without it, it’s like everything revolves around it. People use it to contact their friends or family, explore games, do social media, send important emails and the list goes on. Every year, companies improve on making phones more useful and likewise, offers cheap alternatives, so that every person can have access to the device. Looking at a couple years back, phones are generally use for messaging and seen as an unnecessary accessories but now, people can’t live without. Based on the website called Tame Yourself, study shows that “...58% of smartphone users don’t go without checking their phones.” this explains how addicted we are on our devices.

According to Jane Brody(2017), smartphones has led to a widespread use from the age group of toddlers to seniors. The overuse of phones affects people because it disconnects them from their surroundings and can have negative effects toward their mental and physical health, personal relationships, and their own safety. Everybody became slaves to their devices because we are addicted to our smartphones and it was thought that our phones would make us free but instead people are stuck with their phones. Overall, Jane Brody(2017) is trying to show that smartphones have taken over our lives which can actually lead to negative aspects of our health.

In our dangerous world we are always on our cell phones, looking down, liking, sharing, or playing the latest video game. Smart phones seem to take up most of our time, and attention; yet we can't see the negative side effects because we are so addicted to the distraction. Cell phones do have positive factors, but they have an outstanding rate of negative factors we fail to recognize.

Having a smartphone is seen in two diverse ways, good and bad, but by most people around the world, see

Every day technological ideas are developed by marketers to create the next big thing in electronic devices so that it makes people’s lives more convenient. Cell phones as an example is used in the article, “Our Cell Phones, Our Selves” by Christine Rosen to discuss how it changed the lives of people in society. Overtime, new developments of cell phones has allow people to contact each other and to explore the internet with just a touch of a finger. This electronic device has made huge hits for businesses and corporations because of how much profit they get from millions and millions of consumers. However, people don’t realize that there is also negative consequences using mobile phones because it mainly decreases the communication in

Have you ever seen a car accident caused by texting and driving? Have you ever had a conversation with someone where they pulled out their phone and completely disconnected? If so, you have felt a few of the many negative effects cell phones have on society. Today, technology is constantly evolving, taking new forms, updating, and finding its way into more and more of users lives. Most people are comfortable with this, especially the youth of today, as they have been around technology for their whole lives. However, for those who have lived life outside of this digital age, the explosion of technology is a strange phenomenon. Among all of the tech, lies the cell phone. A device that can now allow one to search

Life in the past was relatively different from today’s life. For instance, handwritten letters were the principal long-distance communication system, and oftentimes, it took several months before receiving a response. A weekly or monthly newspaper was the only way to maintain the population updated. Today, it is undeniable that the quick evolution of technology facilitates communication and connects the whole world. People are constantly using a cell phone to interact with each at their convenience. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) reported that nearly 7 billion of cell phone users have subscribed by 2013 (as cited in Kim, K., Kabir, E. & Jahan, S., 2016). This significant number illustrates how cell phones became an essential part of today’s life. Cell phones are not limited to voice communication. It offers also various services including email/internet access, gaming, text messaging, photography, movie watching, song listening, and so forth. However, this new technology is not without harmful effect on human health. In fact, overuse of cell phones is likely to cause some important physical and mental health risks, and many users are not aware of those consequences. In this point, three negative effects of mobile phones use on human health are mental health problems, psychological addiction, and accidents linked to call situations.

Thesis statement: Even though smartphone is popular all over the world. However, it provides not only the convenient but also the risk to our life

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.

Anyone you ask would say that society has been deeply impacted by all of the technology that has been taking the world by storm. One piece of technology that has made the biggest impact on the world around us is the cellphone. But the cellphone has made an impact a certain age group more than it has than with any other age group, that age groups is young adults. If you were to just take a look around you, you would see how many young adults’ eyes are glued to their cell phone screens as they walking around not paying attention to where they need to go. Now I will explain to you more about how cell phones affect everyone’s daily lives. So please silence your cellphones for the rest of the essay.

Today, almost everything is done digitally either on laptops or mobile phones (smartphones), from online shopping to online banking. These little things have become one amongst the most important things to survive. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous; you can find a fifth grade kid with a smartphone. There are more than a billion smartphones in the market and six billion mobile phone subscriptions. With the rapid development of smartphones, things like watches, radios, cameras, calculators and so on are fading out of the market. In the near future, we might be giving up our leather wallet for a digital wallet.

Nearly all of the today’s society has a smartphone in hand. As a whole, we depend on this phone in the same aspect as we did a baby blanket in our childhood. Major mental health issues, such as lack of social skills, memory problems, and stress are due to this technology. These are some of the biggest concerns when it comes to owning a phone, unfortunately, the effects are not fully realized. These devices have brought several problems in user’s lives, despite supposedly making it easier.