Essay On Pros And Cons Of Cell Phones

The cellphone has brought many advances to our society and has become ingrained into our generation. However, looking at these advances, are these certainly all good? Looking back forty to fifty years ago the cellphone was just in its early stages of development. Only a few select amount of people could use this device. Now in the year of 2015 walking around anywhere mostly everyone has a cellphone in their hand. The cellphone today has several uses such as texting, internet, applications of personal storage i.e credit card info, and more importantly social media. All of these applications have their pros and cons, however the negatives do outweigh the positives. First, identity theft is a common crime among our society due to easily accessible technology, especially cellphones. In …show more content…
A study in the Elon Journal from Elon University surveyed students on cellphone addiction. The study consisted off a 9-question survey asked to students around the ages of 18-21. The group of students were asked about questions such as their use of the cellphone, the feeling they felt if they did not have their cellphone with them, and many more. The results for primary use of cellphones were 83.1% texting, 10.8% for calling and facebook, and the rest was other types of social media. The results for being without a cellphone resulted in 77.4% feeling disconnected without their cellphone and 25.8% feeling stressed without their cellphone. Furthermore, an article named Cell phones can be addictive stated how cellphone addiction has symptoms that correspond to that of drug addicts. From this information it can be concluded that cellphone addiction does take a toll on a human being and as well our society. A participant from the survey in the Elon Journal stated that they may have forgotten to interact face-to-face with someone. This shows a level of extreme addiction to the point a person cannot socialize with