The company, IBM, created the first smartphone and named it the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC). This device was the start of a fast growing network of people, things, and ideas. Although the SPC was extraordinary when it came out, the smartphones from the 21st century are more advanced than the SPC’s potential could ever reach. It has been a productive and efficient factor in being able to connect people through a touch of a button. Smartphones have caused a great way to communicate, but have caused negative consequences to smartphone users. It has affected the user 's attention span on long dense readings via hard copy or online; consequently, making it challenging for users to sort out their priorities. People are in the media torrent
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For example, smartphone users complain that whenever they hear a vibration they automatically have to check their phone to investigate what new thing there is to check out. The time it takes them to check on that one notification can vary because the time could increase with other notifications that are popping up at the same time the user was checking the notification that made them look to their smartphone in the first place. This could lead to more distractions and more time consumed on something that seemed minimal at the moment. The time that it took the smartphone user to check that notification could have been used to perform a productive action, but the smartphone took over their priorities. This can become problematic because the smartphone becomes an obstacle instead of a productive tool used to be more efficient, but others will argue that it fulfills the entertainment aspect of the smartphone. While some people use a smartphone to entertain themselves through video games or social media, it always takes away some valuable time from the user that could have been used to accomplish something more productive. Being productive varies because people have different preoccupations on their mind, and it might not be the same ideas that are on other people 's minds. The smartphone has evolved since the early one in 1992 into a convenient source of information at the tip of people’s fingers. The more use of the smartphone has caused people to skim swiftly through long and dense readings, but has also affected their ability to critically think and analyze the information the text is providing
For example, smartphone users complain that whenever they hear a vibration they automatically have to check their phone to investigate what new thing there is to check out. The time it takes them to check on that one notification can vary because the time could increase with other notifications that are popping up at the same time the user was checking the notification that made them look to their smartphone in the first place. This could lead to more distractions and more time consumed on something that seemed minimal at the moment. The time that it took the smartphone user to check that notification could have been used to perform a productive action, but the smartphone took over their priorities. This can become problematic because the smartphone becomes an obstacle instead of a productive tool used to be more efficient, but others will argue that it fulfills the entertainment aspect of the smartphone. While some people use a smartphone to entertain themselves through video games or social media, it always takes away some valuable time from the user that could have been used to accomplish something more productive. Being productive varies because people have different preoccupations on their mind, and it might not be the same ideas that are on other people 's minds. The smartphone has evolved since the early one in 1992 into a convenient source of information at the tip of people’s fingers. The more use of the smartphone has caused people to skim swiftly through long and dense readings, but has also affected their ability to critically think and analyze the information the text is providing