According to Eric Andrew-Gee’s article “Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down?!” from The Global and Mail, January 6th of 2018, the smartphones made our lives changed eternally in a most devastating way. The reasons why are, it affected the way we interact towards each other like to our loved ones. The focus whenever we have gatherings are not there anymore, sadly on our smartphones and definitely considered as decreased attention span. Unfortunately, it also affects our brain in a certain way we get addicted and let it consume us. It gives a harmful impact in our brain’s neurotransmitters and results to a low IQ(Intelligence Quotient) level. Smartphones forces us also to become unproductive,
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6). The longer duration of time we stay looking on our smartphones, our brain power decreases, when that happens, it adjust our sleeping time due to insomnia, we become vulnerable to anxiety and depression. It might unluckily affect those people around us by the way we spend so much time using it. Andrew-Gee(2018) stated that smartphones impairs our power to recall everything, we don’t know if how many people left in this world that are still capable in daydreaming, maybe people living in areas who still doesn’t have an access to smartphones. According to the Andrew-Gee’s(2018) statistics “How Canadians are losing attention”, under the category “The last thing I do before bed is check my phone” people aged 18-24 there are 73 of them and aged 65+ there are 18 of them. We might not know how many of these people experiences insomnia, but it is possible due to the cellphone radiations it will interfere with your sleep. One of the most alarming effect is anxiety, the author justified that it makes us worse at being alone and worse at being together(Andrew-Gee, 2018, para. 8), the downside of being away from it gives us fear of functioning without …show more content…
The effect on our brain that it damages it and not only our brains, but good relationships towards other people. They also messed up the way we see things, such as posting pictures on Instagram where people focus more on the likes. People should become more aware on how they use their smartphones. “ It's common knowledge in the industry that Instagram exploits this craving by strategically withholding "likes" from certain users. If the photo-sharing app decides you need to use the service more often, it'll show only a fraction of the likes you've received on a given post at first, hoping you'll be disappointed with your haul and check back again in a minute or two.”(Andrew-Gee, 2018, para. 31). The important message of this article by Andrew-Gee(2018) is that people need to maximize their awareness on using smartphones. The author’s point of view is smartphones should be used properly, it should help us and not put us in danger.
Smartphones clearly made our lives devastated in an instance which in the first place we should have prevented if we were clever enough to resist it. Our attention span would not have been decreased, we would still have a high IQ level and we would also still be motivated to be productive if we did not let smartphones penetrate us. We still have a solution to stop these harmful effects of smartphones, it is not yet the end of everything. Put in our mind that we should be smart enough to use it
6). The longer duration of time we stay looking on our smartphones, our brain power decreases, when that happens, it adjust our sleeping time due to insomnia, we become vulnerable to anxiety and depression. It might unluckily affect those people around us by the way we spend so much time using it. Andrew-Gee(2018) stated that smartphones impairs our power to recall everything, we don’t know if how many people left in this world that are still capable in daydreaming, maybe people living in areas who still doesn’t have an access to smartphones. According to the Andrew-Gee’s(2018) statistics “How Canadians are losing attention”, under the category “The last thing I do before bed is check my phone” people aged 18-24 there are 73 of them and aged 65+ there are 18 of them. We might not know how many of these people experiences insomnia, but it is possible due to the cellphone radiations it will interfere with your sleep. One of the most alarming effect is anxiety, the author justified that it makes us worse at being alone and worse at being together(Andrew-Gee, 2018, para. 8), the downside of being away from it gives us fear of functioning without …show more content…
The effect on our brain that it damages it and not only our brains, but good relationships towards other people. They also messed up the way we see things, such as posting pictures on Instagram where people focus more on the likes. People should become more aware on how they use their smartphones. “ It's common knowledge in the industry that Instagram exploits this craving by strategically withholding "likes" from certain users. If the photo-sharing app decides you need to use the service more often, it'll show only a fraction of the likes you've received on a given post at first, hoping you'll be disappointed with your haul and check back again in a minute or two.”(Andrew-Gee, 2018, para. 31). The important message of this article by Andrew-Gee(2018) is that people need to maximize their awareness on using smartphones. The author’s point of view is smartphones should be used properly, it should help us and not put us in danger.
Smartphones clearly made our lives devastated in an instance which in the first place we should have prevented if we were clever enough to resist it. Our attention span would not have been decreased, we would still have a high IQ level and we would also still be motivated to be productive if we did not let smartphones penetrate us. We still have a solution to stop these harmful effects of smartphones, it is not yet the end of everything. Put in our mind that we should be smart enough to use it