Man And Smartphones Essay

Man and smartphones
In today’s day and age practically everybody possesses a smartphone. We live in a world full of electronics which we are hugely dependent on. Computers, mobile phones and other types of electronics have their roots in our everyday lives and have become one of the most important parts of them. When you glance around yourself, wherever you go most people are staring into a small screen. We are not paying attention to where we are and not noticing where we exist in the world. It is turning us into creatures living inside our isolated devices, detached from one another and from the physical world, in relationship only with our electronics and the image of ourselves.

Although technology benefits our lives greatly, it can go a bit too far, it is gradually taking over our social lives and sneaking into our relationships and everyday activities. Smartphones now allow us to communicate with our loved ones at a tip of our fingers but doing so through a small screen can easily lead to misinterpretation, as not seeing their facial expressions, body language and hearing their intonation may in fact cause confusion in contrary with communicating face to face. Texting can also ruin spoken conversation and can be the reason of losing our conversation etiquette, which is becoming a lost art as people are starting to pull out their smartphones from their pockets in the middle of a conversation with a person just to check why their phone buzzed, which may offend many people and is plain rude and inconsiderate to the speaker. It has gotten to a point where we prioritize our phones over people right in front of us.

Texting in class is a serious problem that most professors and fellow students suffer from. When one student us...

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Some may call paying attention between multiple things ‘multi-tasking’, but multi-tasking is nothing but a myth. "People can't multitask very well, and when people say they can, they're deluding themselves," said neuroscientist at MIT Earl Miller. And, he said, "Switching from task to task, you think you're actually paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you're actually switching between them very rapidly." Miller also pointed out that one of the reasons switching happens is that similar tasks vie to use the same part of the brain. "You cannot focus on one while doing the other. That's because of what's called interference between the two tasks," Miller said.
It is proved that while multitasking we are dropping 10 points of our IQ and it also negatively affects 40% of the efficiency of what we are doing