Do Smartphones Affect Teen Communication Skills

Cellphones is also known as cellular phone; it is a transportable telephone that sends and receives radio signals through a network. Cellphone has a huge impact on people because it plays a major role in our daily communication; especially it helps us connect to other people easier. It gives us a chance of having access to different ability like keeping in touch with our family members, businesses relationships and more while we are in different places. However before the use of cell phone, people had desperate needs of mobile communication, so they had installed radiotelephones in their car. It was not effective and inconvenient to use, the main reason was the size, which was too big, and the use of phone was limited because it requires a powerful transmitter. After a long period of development, the first cellphone was invented in 1973. Although they had minimize the shape and made huge changes to a variety of parts in the phone, there were still problems that affect the use of cellphone and it requires science to improve in order to make it more effective. The main problem is the distance limitation that reduces the ability of communication. People weren’t able to communicate with each other in a long range or distance, which is very disturbing for the users. If this problem is solved, communication will become more effective and convenient, it will have more will have a higher impact on people. Apart from that, it helps bring the world together by improving our socialize

This article written by Jean Twenge demonstrates the life of a teenager nicknamed Athena and her cellular obsession. Athena states that she spends most of her time with friends and they are all on their phones. When she´s not doing this she is at home, in her room, on her phone. This is how she spent most of her days in the summer. Though it seems miserable, she enjoys it, it 's the only thing she knows. When it comes to the issues in the article, but with the ideas I disagree. It may be biased, but I don 't believe every teenager is like this. Although it 's not a stretch to say we are all addicted to our phones, but it is when you´re saying that 's all we do. This article states that all teens waste their life away on their phone. This is total nonsense, I have never known anyone in all my life who is like that.

In today's world, we have a lot of technology. Almost everyone owns something electronic, from flip phones to smart phones to computers, technology is everywhere. Smartphones are used for everything; to make calls, to send texts, to listen to music, to receive your email, and even to work as an alarm clock. Flip phones cannot do all of those tasks, but they are still helpful. We use computers today to do a lot of things as well. A smartphone may cut out things you would originally

There are various studies that shows the effects of the use of technology on teenagers. Several studies show the positive effects of the technological gadgets and services. Other studies reveal the negative effects of these technological products. Some of the studies have found both positive and negative effects of technology on teenagers.

The excessive use of smartphone can lead to eye problem. Long-time focusing on the smartphone tiny screen can cause the eye to be discomfort. According to Amanda (2014), eyestrain, blurred vision and dry eye are the effect of spending too much time on starting smartphone. Moreover, smartphone addiction also can affect teenager’s sleep. The constant checking update on smartphone has interrupt teenager’s sleep and even cause insomnia. In “How does smartphone” (2015), the article explain that the teenager who keep tracking for social media update and message do not get a good sleep at night. Next, the smartphone addiction can affect teenager’s studies. Teenagers who are addicted to smartphone will find themselves hard to focus on their studies. The games on smartphone required them to keep online and playing so that they can clear the stage in those games faster. Some of the teenager even check for social media notification in their class. As a result, they do not focus on class and get bad result on their exam. Third, smartphone addiction also affect teenager’s relationship with others. Smartphone addiction can affect relationship between teenager and their parents. Teenagers are more likely to spend time with their smartphone instead with their parents. A research by Tessa (2014) found that 98.5% of the responder agree on teenager look for peer’s recognition though social media on their smartphone. The overuse of smartphone will also affect relationship between teenager and friends. The smartphone addiction even cause teenager to use their smartphone while they are interact with their friends. Thus, they are not able to have good conversation between their friends and fail to build truth among

Since social media came around , there’s have been a decrease in real-life conversations , More people are building a relationship online and drifting away from the real world. It's starting to cause a lack of face to face communication.Teenagers don't even pay attention to the outside world or their surroundings when they’re on their phones.You get easily distracted when you are on your phone. Also technology causes you to miss out on your sleep and losing sleep have negative effects on your brain. It causes you to lose brain tissue and if you do not get your 7 hours of sleep you might suffer from bad moods.While Teenagers feel that social media is more important than the real world. The internet has a negative effect on social media because it can take over brain cells , become more addictive and teenagers spend more time on social media than having

In Brett Molina's, "Do Smartphones keep us in or out of touch?" the writer explains how smartphones are very powerful. "Most of us can walk and chew gum at the same time. But add a smartphone and beware the zombies" (Brett 9). Most adults, teenagers, and even children own a smartphone, but for what purpose? Despite their usefulness, cell phones are a major distraction. These devices are always in people's pockets. People spend most of their time with the phone. A typical day of a smartphone user is as follows: wakes up and checks their phone. During meals, they are using their smartphone. At school, their face is buried in the cell phone. The constant notification alert noises and vibrations of their smartphone are taking away their attention from writing an essay that they have due tomorrow. Before bed, they are straining their eyes just to get a last glimpse. This is what someone would call smartphone addiction. "A 21-year-old Texas woman was charged in June after her 6-month-old daughter drowned in a bathtub. According to investigators, the mother was on Facebook Messenger while the baby was left unattended" (Brett 9). It is heartbreaking how a mother would just do that to their own child. That mother is a disgrace. People like that should not even have children if they are going to spend most of their time on a smartphone. If they are planning to have children, parents need to put down their phones and focus more on their

The average teenager who gets on their phone, just for a second, each hour has the same mind as a 30 year old cocaine addict. Teens have their minds tricked into thinking they can’t live without their cell phones and social media. Teens need to be able to talk to and connect with others and learn face-to-face communication skills. Nowadays teens can get harmed very easily, and teens do not really know who is on the other side of the screen. Studies have shown that phones can ruin lives with the blink of an eye.

Have you ever wondered why your parents would not get you a phone?. In Today’s technologically advanced world, it is pretty common that you have at least one or two connections between technology. However, most parents disagree assuming that technology is hurting the teen’s Childhood. Nevertheless, having a cell phone is a necessity in today’s modernized world. Some of the reasons are practicality, GPS tracking for parents to know where their kids are, and safety.

The biggest risk a cellphone poses is addiction. A FORBES article gives the statistic that 48% of teens feel and “Addiction” to their cell phone (Walton). Many scientific institutions tell that addiction can be classified as a disease and it is shocking to see that almost half of the teens have this disease. The statistic shows one way that kids have health problems because of there concerning attachment to phones. In addition to the last piece of evidence another health problem students may suffer is lack of sleep. According to Susan Scutti, author of a CNN article “Phones are directly linked to worse sleep quality at night” (Scutti). Likewise this applies to teens because of all of the time they spend on their devices. That piece of information shows another health risk and why it is important. If students do not get enough sleep they will not do there best in school and secure a good future. The final health risk that phones pose to students is eye damage. Opticians say that addiction to phones can cause cataracts and other damage to kids eyes. Many scientists have studies this and came to the conclusion that if you stare at phones for too long they could damage your eyes (Kowalski). This portrays another way that phones cause health problems because of the eye damage they can cause

The cell phone is without a fact one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Most people these days cannot visualize life without them. This small technological gadget gives us multiple functions, one of the most valuable is communication. Phones make it easier to check up and contact people than ever before. These devices also provide benefits for people that have to keep their busy life in order. By organizing and planning on their virtual calendar which is provided on the phone. Whether people think about it or not, cell phones have been affecting everyone’s life in multiple different ways.

Cell phones can lead many dangerous health problems to teenagers. By giving teens cell phone, they may probably spend most of their time on text and play video games Also, by contacting with friends by calling them for hours, It can make teens suffer from hearing loss because phones damage the inner ear. Moreover, by using a cell phone, a teenager will spend most of his time sitting on the chair without moving. In other words, let them only sit and talk. By this way, teenagers will have the obesity problem. In other words, getting overweight. A lot of teenagers nowadays are suffering from obesity, in order to they stay in

Central idea: The phenomenon of smartphone addiction cause many effects in terms of enviromental, social, physical and mental.

Smartphone is a very fast, convenient and fashionable tool to communicate people easier and get information from all over the world. It also affects human’s social relationships of communication in real life and people overly rely on it instead of other tools. Smartphone addiction is interfering with our night’s sleep. We will check our phones for email, facebook and Instagram throughout the night. We wouldn’t even think of going to bed without have our smartphone’s tucked under our pillows. The addiction to smartphone is impacting the social and family life and creating frictions in our lives. For example, these day people spend a great deal of time using smartphone such as playing game, texting message, listening to music, watching video and surfing internet. Therefore, people isolate themselves to focus on playing with their smartphone instead of sharing time to talk to others, especially at home, during break time at work or school and even if going out to get together with friends. It is easy to see that people’s social

We life in the world where every day technology is developing more and more. There are many different types of phone and apps. Most of people especially teens use them every day. For example, British 12-15-year-olds teenagers send an average of 200 messages a week (R.Bertrand,2012). It’s clear that teenagers love their phones. So, what are the positive and negative impacts of mobile phone?