How Have Cell Phones Changed The Social Norms Of Social Interaction?

As you walk through a college campus you may witness girls rapidly texting minutes before their class or kids checking their emails right on phone. With such easy access to information our society have completely immersed itself in technology and have forgotten the abc’s of social interaction previously used. Technology has made connecting with people easier, however, people have taken it to the extremes and rather than communicating with people face- to- face society is now choosing to interact through text messages and other social applications. Communications through social applications have constructed new and have also rebuild old relationships.

Many born in older generation may see communication through technologies as odd or out of place,

In his yearlong study he used observational fieldwork and interviews to see how cellphones have affected our form of interactions. Humphrey conducted field observation twice a week for one to three hours in the course of year in populated cities such as New York City and Philadelphia to get a wider audience. He also conducted shorter observations in more target areas where cell phones were socially prohibited such as theaters or lecture hall. These people were observed before the show, during the show, and at the end of the show in order to get a vision of how the people interacted during the course of time. Throughout his study he had taken notes of about 500 individuals using and interacting with their cellphones. Humphrey also questioned twelve undergrad students regarding some of the observations he had noted and also on the decisions one made on the usage of cellphones in public. Humphrey then questioned six other random individuals from coffee shops and train station who aged from twenty-five to sixty on their usage of cell phones in