Essay On Negative Effects Of Cell Phones

Cell phones are one of the most defining pieces of technology in the 21st century, within a decade has drastically changed our society for better and worse. In the decade of innovations, cell phones have taken over everyday lives, including how people communicate, and interact. The remarkable advances made in technology, makes nearly everything attainable in the palm of our hands. Our “smart phones” smarter than we are, have every answer lie in a search on Google. Living in the century of convenience, phones are the most beneficial part of our lives. Although there are many positives including being practical and efficient, it is followed by many negatives including distractions, addiction to over 73% of the population, and becoming immune isolation because of the lack of interaction.
Being constantly connected to our mobile phones has negatively affects our society. The majority of time spent on average is consisted of an aspect of technology, whether it is cell phones, or the computer, 7.4 hours are spent on either of these pieces of technology. As well as the television being left on practically all day, our lives are overruled by technology (Martin). The privilege of having answers instantly, have resulted in laziness. With all the answers just a click away, and your curiosity whisked away by and answer within seconds. “Nothing is private, in fact you can find public records of someone’s taxes online”(Martin). You can simply type in someone’s name in the search bar and you can instantly figure out their age, address, and occupation.
Originally cell phones were only designed for strictly calls, nearly the size of a brick, no one carried it around. It started to evolve into flip and slide phones, with keyboards and cameras. Se...

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...ily accessible from your phone. Although many are excited for what the future potentially has in store, many are concerned. Something so valuable as a social security card, or even as simple as your driver’s license can we accessed on your phone. How often people lose their phone, and something so important to someone’s life is only being protected by a four-digit password.
Phones as said are built for convenience, they are replacing a lot of common tools. For example nearly every phone now has a GPS. You can figure out how to get anywhere, either by foot, train, bus or car. As well as cameras, with phones now having high definition cameras, and zoom, the quality of the cameras a almost professional. There is no use to be and actual camera, when it is in your phone. It is even replacing paper like calendars, and notebooks. Everything is within and app on your phone