Persuasive Essay: How Are Smartphones Affect Our Lives

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Today’s generation is all about their smartphones. These phones now do everything for people to use and the manufacturers make them so easy for anyone to use. But, smartphones are taking over people’s lives, and it may not be for the best. They actually change the way people act and think. Smartphones can save all peoples information such as passwords, usernames, credit cards, emails, and more. Then they can automatically autofill it the next time the owner tries to type them in. This is causing people to not even try to think or remember things anymore because they know that their phone will do it for them. People do not experience the meaning of life and experiences they make by just enjoying the views. Instead, people now have to record …show more content…

Especially when someone is trying to get school work done, if they start using their phone, then it takes them so much longer to get that work done than if they had just put the phone down and do it. Smartphones are too much of a distraction to people, and it is sometimes hard to put them down. People nowadays rely so much on their smartphones and it is not okay. For example, for directions they just use the navigation map on ones phone instead of knowing how to get there by looking at directions. They get turn by turn voice directions as they are driving. But, what happens when the phone dies and that person is completely stranded and has no idea where to go or where they are. Being on the phone could also actually cause danger. If someone were walking and not paying attention to where they’re going; then they could walk right into something like the road and not look both ways and actually walk into oncoming traffic or a car and get hit. People trip over things and run into people too. Smartphones also always know the location of where the person with the phone is at, and if they were to post where they were at it could lead to dangerous people knowing where that persons

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