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Eva Villegas

Ben Jorgensen

Writing 1010

July 22,2019

The use of devices leads to less live communication

Nowadays smartphones threaten the social interaction. At first, the smartphones

were introduced to humans with the purpose of having better ways of communicate

because it allows you to connect person to person around the world. But at this moment

smartphones is impacting every single aspect of everyday life in addition is an issue that

we are losing the credibility of developing our skill to communicate face to face with

people.

Back them phones were introduced with the objective for fast communication.

These technology devices have the ability to transfer information freely and quickly from

device to device. Through time, development in technology rapidly grows from large

wireless cell phones to smart phones and from regular desktop computer to laptops

computers not to mention now we even have tablets. At this present time, society is

becoming more and more obsessed with digital in the means of entertainment.

Today everyone wants to have the news, best and the last version of those devices

because of it we putting aside our relationship with humans.

According to an article by Simon Hill “Are Smartphone Killing the art of face-to-

face conversation? We ask the experts” Due to the existence of the smartphones we are

losing the ability to talk face to face and convey our feelings from one person to another.
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The smartphones and social media has changed the way we communicate today is easer

to make contact to another person by using such emails, twitter, Facebook or text

messages but in the bank of America survey they found 38 percent of all ages use texting

to converse with their family and friends and the other 33 percent did not use text

messages. Now is really common to use this type of method to communicate for every

situation we have.

The prevue survey is showing how phones slowly taking part of our life

conversation. Also this survey shows some examples of different studies in where they

based their study. First they group people from all different ages just to see how the use

of the social media has a lot influence in our communication from everyday. “In a good

conversation, the words we say are only one small part of the meaning that we convey,

there’s also body language, tone of voice, facial expression,” said Dr. James Roberts,

Professor of Marketing at Baylor University and author of too Much of a Good thing: Are

you Addicted to your Smartphone? Told Digital Trends. It says that we relied so much on

devices that sometimes when we need to talk about important we luck the courage and

prefer to use devices to past our massage. (Roberts 3).

In another article publish on 2015 Suttie Jull talks about the tittle of the book

from Sherry Turkle post reclaiming conversation. Turkle has 20 years studying how

technology is been having a lot influence in our daily conversation. She argues

digital conversation cannot be replace by our social interaction. In one of her

previous book Turkle wrote, “Alone Together” she writes about “her fears that

technology was making us feel and more and more isolated, even as it promised to
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make us more connected”. Turkle want us to advise to be more considering of the

issue “social effects of the cell phone.”

In the research “How are cell phones and the technologies hurting us “ Turkle

studies shows that 82 percent of Americans are felling to have a good conversation

because they are more focused on what is on their phone, then what the person in

front of them has to say. The study also pointed to two good points “First, it

decreases equality in of what you talk about” second “it decreases the empathic

connection that people feel toward each other.” (JS) the issue we are facing is a

serious matter where is the social interaction is becoming more noticeable on how

the smartphones are taking our so. The one that we take notice how that people feel

by seen their movement body and learn from the eye contact they truly feel about

when we make contact face to face.

In this era where one’s knowledge and access to knowledge on devices a

survey was recur to find how devices affect the interaction of our development on

our social skills. In this two groups of Canadians participate in a research survey

study, they where group in to small groups of 3 to 5. The first part of the survey had

300. Searchers assigned them to have a meal in a restaurant to study their behavior

during mealtime some groups where allow having their phones and the others

didn’t. “Searchers found that the people rated the meal as less enjoyable and said

they were more distracted when phones were present.”

The other part of the group of 123 Canadians they were study for one week.

rearchers observe them 5 times at day to see how they do on social interact. Studies

found out that the people was not satisfied when they were talking face to face and
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also more distracted trying to pay attention on they phone instead of the person

who was in front of them. We tent to communicated with each other with new social

network for everything. We use our devices everything from to text, email, and search to

entertainment to make our own payments on line. It’s hard not to live the house without

any of your devises, especially if we are talking about smartphones.

My friend Michael sat on the table to have hade their meals with her family. All

her family’s members were all locking at the phone too much they were ether in

Facebook, twittering, emailing or texting with their friends. Except her mom who wanted

have social interaction. Every time her mother tried to made conversation with them they

were to busy focusing on what was in their phone, her mom stared to miss those days

when they were kids they sat together and they have a good time without the interference

of the phone it got to the point where she got tired that, they didn’t have eye contact they

had their eye ether on the phone or other devices to her mother found it really

disrespectful and decide to change it.

She began to started by making some rules they were not allow to bring your

phone to the table unless is was an emergency after but they keep on using their

smartphones so she decide that if they use they phone they will pay one dollar each time

they took out their her phones to use it. ever since them their family started to change

they had more communication between them more they even play games what make it so

much fun and healthier. Now they thanks their mom for those moments they have

together as a family.

When my friend Michael told me about her story remind me of how much I used

spend a lot of time on smartphone. I use to search for recipes other things but especially
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Japanese graphs novel they were really interest to me that I was awake till next day and

because I was enjoying myself I didn’t wanted to spend a moment side or with my

family because I always wanted to know what was in the next chapter. then thing got a bit

complicated.

My health was good at the beginning but the with the time passing my body

stared to break do to the luck of sleep, I started to have blurred vision, a lot of headaches

and stared to get dizzy not feeling well form my stomach but that wasn’t it I was losing

precious moment with my family moments that will never come back. So I decide to

change my routine I stared to spent time with my family to communicated more with then

to have those good memories that smartphone will never give me. Now I know

smartphone can en danger your social interaction and healthy and always best to consider

keep was precious to you.

In conclusion smartphones and other devices can help a lot with the social

network communication but we must not forget the how to interact with people face to

face we must not depend so on replacing our verbal communication with devices it is

really beautiful to spent time with the people around knowing that the life is short an we

can regret not being able to make good memories with our friends and family. Abusing

too much of the devices also can cause health problems we must be consider of the

situation and not putting our heath and social interaction with our family and friend at

risk.
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Works Cited

Candice Sathiraboot in Education, wellness: Is Too Much Electronic Use Bad for Your

Health http://www.healthpointchc.org/news-calendar/blog/is-too-much-

electronic-use-bad-for-your-health

Hill Simon posted March 5 2017 Smartphone Killing the art of face-to-face conversation?

We ask the experts https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/are-smartphones-really-

killing-the-art-of-conversation/

W. Dolan Eric (November, 20 2017) Study finds Smartphone use enjoyment of face-to-

face social interactions https://www.psypost.org/2017/11/study-finds-smartphone-

use-undermines-enjoyment-face-face-social-interactions-50239

Turkle Sherry of MIT sociologist professor and A Q&A Reclaiming conversation How

Smartphones Are Killing Conversation.

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_smartphones_are_killing_conv

ersation

James A. Roberts’s http://smartphoneloveaffair.com/