“Put your phone up at the dinner table. No headphones in the car while we’re on our family trip”. These are the statements that some parents should tell their children. According to Matthew Brashears (a sociologist at Cornell). He has found that Americans have fewer intimate relationships today than 20 years ago. Everybody should attend National No Screen Week because technology is making us less intelligent and is isolating us from our families. Researchers say cell phones and computers have transformed life (Mat Richtell). In every way that statement is true. According to Mat Richtell technology let’s people escape there cubicles and work from anywhere. They shrink distances and handle countless mundane tasks, feeling up time for more exciting
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A sociologist at Cornell has found that fewer Americans have fewer relationships today than 20 years ago. People today are on their phones and computers not being active with others and cannot create real relationships. Using the internet makes us less intelligent. According to Nicholas Carr, “What really makes us intelligent is not our ability to find lots of information quickly”. It is our ability to think deeply about that information. The internet gives us lots of messages and other points of data and every one of these interruptions breaks what were thinking of and leaves us scattered brained. Everybody should attend National No Screen Week because technology is making us less intelligent and is isolating us from our family. All in all we should get off of our technology and start learning and making real relationships. People come and their children are being isolated by their phones and computers not talking to each other and interacting. Nowadays you cannot study and learn because of the internet is making your brain so scattered brained. If you want to be intelligent then you got to learn deeply and study something for a long time. You cannot just go to the web and look the answer up on Google. This is not doing anything but hurting your mind because you’re not learning anything. So in conclusion everybody should attend National No Screen Week because technology is making us less intelligent and is isolating us from our
A sociologist at Cornell has found that fewer Americans have fewer relationships today than 20 years ago. People today are on their phones and computers not being active with others and cannot create real relationships. Using the internet makes us less intelligent. According to Nicholas Carr, “What really makes us intelligent is not our ability to find lots of information quickly”. It is our ability to think deeply about that information. The internet gives us lots of messages and other points of data and every one of these interruptions breaks what were thinking of and leaves us scattered brained. Everybody should attend National No Screen Week because technology is making us less intelligent and is isolating us from our family. All in all we should get off of our technology and start learning and making real relationships. People come and their children are being isolated by their phones and computers not talking to each other and interacting. Nowadays you cannot study and learn because of the internet is making your brain so scattered brained. If you want to be intelligent then you got to learn deeply and study something for a long time. You cannot just go to the web and look the answer up on Google. This is not doing anything but hurting your mind because you’re not learning anything. So in conclusion everybody should attend National No Screen Week because technology is making us less intelligent and is isolating us from our