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    As a child, I recall playing on a rotary phone and spinning the dial wheel repeatedly as I imagined I was calling my grandmother. Eventually, the technology in telephones changed and the invention of the push button phones came about; however, they were not near as fun to play on as the rotary dial. The next step in the evolution of the phone came in the form of a hands-free unit, and eventually, the cell phone. This new technology has been instrumental in the growth of the telecommunication industry. On the other hand, it has adversely affected our relationships both personally and professionally, jeopardized our privacy, and most importantly, affected the ability of our society to correspond correctly and stay on task. Cell phones are one…

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    Could a person's privacy be violated during sleep? When people want to share videos or pictures with another people, it takes times because they save it in their phone and they may be busy at this moment, so they send it later. A lot of people do not expect that they will express themselves, live in the moment and learn about the world’s events. “Picaboo lets you and your girlfriends send photos for peeks and not keeps!” this sentence contributed to had service that people did not expect it to…

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    Whenever we want to talk to someone we text them, even if you want to wish them a Happy Birthday or Happy New Year we use our phones. By using technology our way of communication has changed. Instead of talking face to face we use our phones and by that it’s causing us problems. A nonfiction passage by Scott Peck “Life is Difficult” and Sherry Turkle’s “Flight From Conversation” both suggest how life is full of problems and technology diverts our attention from solving these problems and thus…

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    become a network engineer. This is where I would be setting up the network that people use to access the internet and communicate with others. It would be a bad thing if I was oblivious to the technology around us. The itch has a definition that not many people think about when it pertains to them. You ask someone, “why do you use this piece of technology or that piece?” Their normal answer would be “because how would I function without it?” It's a valid answer, to a small degree. The bigger…

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    Do you have a computer or a self-phone? Technology is all around us in this world today. It is very common to have a phone or a computer of any kind or to even have both. People think only about the good things about technology but not about the bad things that are harmful to the consumers. Technology is very harmful to people because it rewires our brains and disconnects us from the world. Technology has rewired our brain over the years and dumbed us down that we have short attention spans. In…

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    Cell phones, can be dangerous for children? You can influence your child, but you cannot control him. These days mobile phone has become part of many human lives, the reason why it is useful for kids is that it could distract him why we do chores. For example, we can download games and books, so they can play and read as they want. It is also easier to communicate with people around the world with cell phones. On the other hand, many people think that mobile phones are useless. Because it is…

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    Nowadays, with the rapid development of Internet and information industry, mobile phones play a dominant role in people’s life. Wherever you are, you can discover that almost everyone is equipped with a phone. It has been widely recognized that phones make our life more convenient and make people closer. However, each coin has two sides. I want to focus on the disadvantages of phones in terms of security, and many evidence can be named to prove this.…

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    CRASH!!!!! That's the sound you will hear if you text and drive. I think people should not text and drive. If everyone has an addiction to texting and driving than everyone will always be in a lot of trouble. Don't text and drive that is why you shouldn't text and drive. If you text and drive you can get in a bad car crash, it's worse than drunk driving, you can get the people around you in really bad danger as well as yourself. One reason you shouldn't text and drive is it can get you in a…

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    Can you believe that your cell phone could possibly cause several health issues for you. As almost everyone knows, cell phones are taking over our world. They are used for communication, social networking, entertainment purposes, and much more. The list of things you can do with a cell phone is practically endless. In the United States, over 303 million people are subscribed to a cell phone network, and that’s just the United States.1 Adding everybody else in the world, about 6 out of 7 billion…

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    One may remember when they got there first cell phone, laptop, iPad, etc. Technology has become a big part of everyone's day to day life today. Technology is something that most really on to contact others or to help them with there day to day tasks. Although technology may have many positive effects, the negative effects outweigh the positive. Trough extensive research one can conclude that technology has caused many problems form a relational relationship, affecting health, bullying to death.…

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