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In today’s society, smartphones are “necessities” in everyday life. People are constantly scrolling through social media, checking text messages, reading emails, and doing the other long list of things you can do on a smartphone. All the time, I see people using their phones while driving, during class, walking down the street, and in the middle of conversations. We have become so obsessed with using our smartphones that the word “nomophobia” can be used to describe the fear of being without it. Interactions between people have decreased over the past years because in social situations people tend to sit on their phone instead of engaging in a real conversation. It seems that a lot of the time, people would rather look through Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat than be social. What other effects does smartphone usage have on society?

Images That Sum up How Smartphones Are Ruining Our Lives

Research has found that increased smartphone usage has significantly worsened our memory capacity, ability to process data, and our critical thinking skills. On average, the typical smartphone user checks their phone around 85 times a day. This includes checking their phone in the middle of the night when they should be sleeping. Studies have shown that this type of excessive use could have serious consequences. The shortened list of consequences includes things like anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, lack of concentration, antisocial tendencies, and decreased empathy. As Jason Perlow, Sr. Technology Editor at ZDNet, said, “smartphones can enable us to reach out to people in ways that were never possible before, but at the same time, it is also extremely capable of bringing out the absolute worst of humanity.”

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Blog Sources:

Why Your Smartphone Is Destroying Your Life

Smartphones: Transforming society into a sea of stupid

In my opinion, the articles I read had reasonable arguments with supportive evidence but aren’t 100% credible. Although the articles are supported with evidence, I think they were slightly biased. The authors included a lot of their own opinions within the articles and only focused on how bad smartphones are for society. In order to make the sources more credible, the authors should’ve used evidence to counter arguments people make about how smartphones are good for society.