Cell Phones Affecting Social Skills

Throughout the world I believe that cell phones has become a major distraction that is affecting everyone's social life negatively this generation. Sometimes cell phones can be useful and helpful to the world, but in this case it is destroying everybody's social skills. Lately, cell phones are being very interruptive while having a conversation with someone or at an occasion. Secondly, people aren't able to have conversations face to face like we all used to communicate with each other. Lastly, us humans have become obsessive and addictive with using our cell phones. "In a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 89 percent of cell phone owners said they had used their phones during the last social gathering they attended." (Turkle 1). How would we be able to change this habit?
Firstly, no matter how much we try to get rid of our cell phones, it always becomes interruptive while we have conversations with others. For instance, people during reunions or meetings have their phones ring and stop what they are doing just to answer. Also, we have times that we go out to a place with a person and have our phones out and it starts to vibrate, and interrupts the time you are spending with the person. Whenever we find ourselves in a situation and try to spend time with

someone or have meetings, the cell phone becomes interruptive and rude. It's disrespectful behavior using a cell phone while being with someone. "You can shift your attention from the people in the room to the world you can find on your phone." (Turkle 2).

Next, in today's society, people aren't able to have face-to-face conversations with each other like we used to before cell phones existed.

Before cell phones existed people would be able to talk to one another about their feelings, express themselves, share ideas between each other or value the conversations. Now and then people are so attached to their cell phones, that would rather text someone that is in the same room as them than talk to them in person, there are missing out on the art of conversations. This is mostly affecting in families, each and every family member have some sort of device, in a dinner table there isnt communication anymore, because everyone is too busy in the world of

technology.
Finally, being obsessed and addicted to our phones is a major issue. Throughout the whole day, we are always checking and looking at our phones constantly to see who texts or calls us. We always have our phones with us everywhere we go and it becomes very obsessive that we can't disconnect ourselves from it. Technology has control over us that we can't be able to handle. It's become a big part of our lives but it's also doing damage to us socially.
In conclusion, people are being controlled by cell phones and don't even realize that the art of conversation is becoming less and less each day. First, cell phones are becoming very interruptive towards others. Second, there is lack of communication among each other. Third, we are becoming very addicted to our phones, that we aren't realizing the damage it's doing to us. Cell phones are becoming a negative distraction that’s affecting this generation. We would be able to change this habit by trying to put our phones aside for an entire day, and trying to communicate with other people.