How Do Cell Phones Affect Society

Mobile Disturbance
The extensive usage of cellphones has provoked a major issue in today’s society, people are constantly having to check their phones to see if anyone has sent them a text or if they’ve received any type of notification, this has grown out of control. Although ever since these cellular devices came out they have made our lives a lot easier, helping us stay connected with faraway friends and family, or something even as drastic as helping us make an emergency call if we have to, but there is also a negative side to cell phones, cell phones have made people nowadays less social and they also leave us more open to be in an accident while on the phone such as fatal car accidents. People are more willing to communicate through cell phones then to have a one-on-one conversation with someone. Do to how these mobile devices let us communicate …show more content…
The lack of confidence may be one of the reasons why people tend not to talk to random people. Meeting new people and experiencing new things is known to build confidence which then makes it easier for people to partake in face-to-face conversations. In addition, in the article “Is technology Destroying Social Bonds?” by Shawn Ghuman, Ghuman mentions that messages that come from electronics such as email or text message are known to cause social anxiety, the social anxiety then makes people not want to interact with society. With this ongoing amount of cellular devices that are being brought to the stores and then sold is causing more anxiety towards people and then causing them to act as not themselves. Mobile devices should help improve people communicate in a personal level because it is a very important part in life when communicating with another person, but these mobile devices are preventing us from moving