Smartphones Make Students Lazy Research Paper

Communicating through a smartphone has made people very antisocial but it has also made it simpler, you don’t have to write them letters and wait weeks or days to receive a response. In the Buzzle article they argue that, “In previous times, one would actually spend a day or two in structuring and completing a letter, then spend extra money on mailing it and finally waiting till the letter reaches the desired person. People from our generation will consider this as a strenuous activity”(Buzzle). Writing a letter, to a person from my generation is considered difficult and time consuming, but people used to have to write letters to communicate with people around the country. Now, people can call or send texts others around the world with no …show more content…
Students are too lazy to think a little and do their homework, instead they look up the answers online. They look answers up on Yahoo, Google, or Wikipedia and sometimes these websites provide inaccurate answers. They rely on the Internet for answers because they are too lazy to use their brain, or search for information on their textbooks or notes. Wikipedia is an unreliable source because anyone with Internet can change or add incorrect information. On Yahoo, you can ask a question and anyone can reply to it and you won’t know if it’s right or wrong. On Google you can type in your question and it will give you many different websites related to that question, but you won’t know which is the most accurate. Textbooks and subject notes provide the most accurate information because they are created to educate students on subjects and homework is always based on topics you have been taught on the subject. Students, including myself, are also becoming lazier when it comes to doing the homework or classwork. Students are always taking their phones out and taking a picture of the work so they don’t have to write it down. At my school, there are always students, including myself, who are always taking pictures of the work and notes because we are too lazy to get out a pencil and paper, or are rushing to get out of class and not stay a few extra minutes to copy everything down. Sometimes I forget that I have homework and realize that I actually when I go look through my camera roll. I usually leave my school work pictures on my camera roll for weeks or months because I am too lazy to look through all my pictures and erase