Facebook timeline never stops; new posts continuously come up, people click on ‘like’, leave comments or chat on Facebook Messenger, or at least people keep scrolling down their timeline to see what they have missed during the night or during their work. The problem is that, surprisingly, we humans cannot keep eyes on Facebook and go sleep, or take a shower, or do our homework at the same time. We keep looking on smartphone, putting off the tasks and distracting ourselves. It has become common to see students who try to keep texting during the class; or even workers who get distracted by Facebook pop-up. People who possess their own smartphone must have common experiences like this―even when we are working, we think of our smartphones, lose …show more content…
Outside of negative physical impacts, mental distraction by smartphones has been already discussed by researchers. In the research led by Antti Oulasvirta, associate professor of Aalto university, in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, researchers found that people were continuously checking their smartphones while they were working. They had no important or specific purpose, but they just turned on their smartphones simply to see if there was something new. This data was named ‘Checking Habit’ by the researchers. It can be partly because of ‘quick informational rewards’, which means real-time information provided by application, that users are more attracted to check their phones. As more and more applications adapt real-time service, it will be even easier to attract users to stick to their phones and get endless information, as the researchers …show more content…
Who, in the past, could have ever imagined a magical little device in one hand that has every convenient functions humans need? More specifically, the advent of smartphones has made it possible for workers to share opinions more easily and cooperate more efficiently. We can send an e-mail and share important files even if there is no computer around, therefore we are now able to work on tasks with very little limitation. But, does this mean we stay as concentrated as before the smartphones? It still needs discussion whether being more connected and more faster is always good for us in terms of our focus and productivity. Smartphones have enabled many things that have previously been impossible, but this does not necessarily mean that they also make humans more productive. Ironically, that we can do so many things with smartphones can disturb our concentration, rather than help us, at least when we are working.
By taking back our lost productivity from smartphones, we will be able to help irrational ourselves be better, more focusing and more productive ones. This change will not only make individuals improve but also contribute to company and further to society, as total amount of wasted time decreases. As smartphones have already become an ordinary part of our lives, now it is time to think about whether we are benefiting from the state-of-the-art devices, or are being dominated
Over time, gadgets and gizmos have taken attention from many Americans. Maggie Jackson gives prominence to this point in “Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.” According to Jackson, technology has become too advanced for attention’s sake. In her essay, Jackson states that “we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation & sensory detachment. In this new world, something is amiss.
Who doesn’t check their phone constantly throughout the day? What if your phone was a small piece of metal in your head? In this story it is, a chip called the “feed” is inserted into everyone’s head. On the feed people can shop, texted, watch movies, get news, and best of all make personal choices for the users. In Feed by M.T. Anderson he suggests the role of technology affects the way people communicate with others cause by negative learning opportunities at school, reducing what choices people make, and distracts people.
My phone kept ringing with text messages and notifications, probing myself to keep picking up my phone. With all of the technology around me, I am constantly getting distracted from the tasks I am currently working
Russel argues that the high accessibility smartphones contribute is a positive attribute for the advancement of communication, deep attachments and large amounts of time spent on smartphones argues otherwise . The author argues smartphones are so readily available to people, that gives them the freedom to communicate at any time, initiating more conversations. Although that may be true smartphone users are now constant dependency on their phones to connect them with their wide-ranging social network prohibiting them from focusing tasks in the moment Written in 2005 smartphones were a very recent phenomenon . Do to this fact Russel failed to see the future implications of a device with such broad functionality. Bill Thornton, author of “The
Carr brings up the question of how our minds can be negatively affected by this when he asks, “So what happens to our minds when we allow a single tool such dominion over our own perception and cognition?” While Carr is aware that the smartphone serves a countless number of useful purposes and tasks, he believes we should think deeper about the lesser known effects of our smartphones which people so easily allow to take over their lives. Carr begins his article with statistics, stating that the typical smartphone owner checks on their phone over 80 times a day, which translates to almost 30,000 times a year. He calls smartphones our constant companions, comparing them to teachers, secretaries, confessors, and gurus. In fact, Carr includes a 2015 Gallup survey which found that “more than half of iPhone
Disconnected With more than five billion people in the world now owning some kind of mobile phone, it’s hard to imagine a world without these devices. Without your smartphone who would tend to your crops on Hay Day? Who would take care of your Snapstreaks while you’re gone?
People searching for immediacy and skimming through texts might play a role in the lessening of attention spans but it seems to be more of a product of choice and self discipline, rather than a product of using the Internet. Carr’s argument about the Internet causing these effects on cognition seems to be an excuse for an individual’s own habits. Sometimes, I almost feel the need to be distracted and compelled to check my phone, email, Facebook etc. However, I found that to be my choice. Whenever I tell myself that I need to get work done before indulging in an Internet-savvy society or when I put my phone somewhere that is out of sight, my urge to use technology has diminished almost completely because of the self discipline I have enforced.
Matt Richtel states “ cellphones and computers have transformed life.” Humans have been growing smarter since the computer came out because access to information has become easiest task in the world. Once the cellphone came along the task got even easier because phones perform all the same tasks as computers, but are way more portable. Keith Hampton States “ We no longer lose social ties our our lives; we have facebook friends forever.” Humans, just like other animals are very social.
Owe to the development of technology, the quality of our lives has increased in a great extent. Our daily lives are now more and more convenient and pleasant since most of the tasks can be done more efficiently with the help of technologies like smartphones and the Internet; furthermore, some difficult tasks can even be done completely by robots. However, various social issues appear inevitably along the advancement of the civilization. People started to wonder whether they rely on technology way too excessively as an outcome when they realized one may feel lost and disconnected without technologies like the Internet and cellphones. It has become an universal debate: Is the technology transforming our civilization into Utopia?
With the internet access reaching farther into our lives from smart watches to televising pumps at gas stations, distractions are everywhere and increasingly difficult to ignore.
When using the internet often we tend to get addicted, and when we are away from the internet all we wonder about is what we are missing out on. “We want to be interrupted because each interruption brings us a valuable piece of information. To turn off these alerts is to risk feeling out of touch, or even socially isolated," wrote Carr. I am addicted to the internet, and when I am away from it can get tough. When I do my homework I turn off my phone, and put it in another room or else I get distracted and cannot get anything done.
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.
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about the effects of smartphone. Central idea: The phenomenon of smartphone addiction cause many effects in terms of enviromental, social, physical and mental. BODY I. One of the effects that will experienced by human when overuse the smartphone is physical effect. A. Nowadays, we are relying on our smartphone instead on using our brains and this action cause reduction to our brain’s function. 1.
Apps like Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, and Buzzfeed can cause a decrease in the overall products of students’ works and an increase in the amount of time needed to complete the product because of the incessant notifications that show up on an individual’s screen every five minutes. In a 2011 study conducted by Wade Jacobsen and Renata Forste on “Academic and Social Outcomes of Electronic Media Use Among College Students,” they concluded from more than 1,000 undergraduates that 2.45 hours are spent on the internet, and an hour is usually spent watching television. High school students spend roughly about 2.3 hours on technology and media everyday, and as new media platforms come out, more time is spent on them. The temptations of answering someone or looking at who liked your picture on Instagram causes great disruptions in studying and workplaces. When a student’s final product is not up to the standards or is incomplete, it can severely affect their grades in school.
Smartphone is one of the best invention in twenty first century. Smartphone is an all-in device that provide functionality of other device such as calculator, torch light, media player and camera. According to Pei and Lionel (2006), unspecific promoting planner had started to use the term smartphone to bring up new type of cell phone that can enable information access and use computing power to process. Smartphone allow us to contract with people, access information and make transaction within our finger tips. Although smartphone is convenient to us but the overuse of smartphone can lead to smartphone addiction.