Today you can walk into just about any college classroom and find students on their cell phones. From keeping up with trending hashtags, to watching a funny Vine, students are extremely distracted by the handheld lifelines, we call smartphones, in their hands. The culture in America today is defined by the technology we are surrounded by. The first smartphone was introduced to the market in 1992 by IBM Simon, but it was greatly overshadowed by the iPhone, that everyone now knows, that was unveiled in 2007. Undoubtedly the Apple iPhone has forever changed the pop culture of America. In 2013 70 percent of teens aged 13 to 17 now use smartphones, and 79 percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 own a smartphone, according to Nielsen,
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Without a doubt the pop culture of cell phones and social media has taken over most of America. Unfortunately, this culture that has shaped the last few years is really harming our health. Physically by using cell phones at unnatural angles, and as well as emotionally through outlets such as Facebook. Through the use of social media people are more connected to the world and knowledge than ever, but we are facing exponentially more self esteem problems in the last 10 years than ever before. This culture is only harming us. The last generation’s parents were kids only 35 years ago, for entertainment they enjoyed getting cardboard and sliding down hills on a sunny afternoon, swimming, or biking around the neighborhood, unlike today’s youth. You can find the majority of kids in this generation on their phones almost all of the time, looking at photos, texts, and status updates. This is not healthy in any capacity. Children today are exposing themselves to predators at an extremely young age. My own sister, for example, was waiting at a bus stop when a man came up to her, only got her first name and the city in which she lived. In one week he found her on all of her social media pages, found our home address and promptly showed up …show more content…
Now you can step into any classroom and you are almost guaranteed to see a projector, screen, and kids pretending to take notes on their laptops while texting with their phones. Some people say that this technology boom is extremely helpful, but cell phones have no place in a classroom. Students are so easily distracted by a funny YouTube video or a Tweet, and it is hard to compete with a boring lesson plan. Most teachers agree that this is a complex issue because yes, smartphones can be used for educational purposes such as collecting acceleration data in physics classrooms to record speeches in a communications class, but rarely are used in such a
Without a doubt the pop culture of cell phones and social media has taken over most of America. Unfortunately, this culture that has shaped the last few years is really harming our health. Physically by using cell phones at unnatural angles, and as well as emotionally through outlets such as Facebook. Through the use of social media people are more connected to the world and knowledge than ever, but we are facing exponentially more self esteem problems in the last 10 years than ever before. This culture is only harming us. The last generation’s parents were kids only 35 years ago, for entertainment they enjoyed getting cardboard and sliding down hills on a sunny afternoon, swimming, or biking around the neighborhood, unlike today’s youth. You can find the majority of kids in this generation on their phones almost all of the time, looking at photos, texts, and status updates. This is not healthy in any capacity. Children today are exposing themselves to predators at an extremely young age. My own sister, for example, was waiting at a bus stop when a man came up to her, only got her first name and the city in which she lived. In one week he found her on all of her social media pages, found our home address and promptly showed up …show more content…
Now you can step into any classroom and you are almost guaranteed to see a projector, screen, and kids pretending to take notes on their laptops while texting with their phones. Some people say that this technology boom is extremely helpful, but cell phones have no place in a classroom. Students are so easily distracted by a funny YouTube video or a Tweet, and it is hard to compete with a boring lesson plan. Most teachers agree that this is a complex issue because yes, smartphones can be used for educational purposes such as collecting acceleration data in physics classrooms to record speeches in a communications class, but rarely are used in such a