Cell Phones: Good or Bad? Two Articles


https://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/25/tech/mobile/oms-smartphones-boredom/index.html
This article talks about how cell phones kill the state of boredom. People no longer have their mind wandering when they’re bored, or pulling out a notebook to jot down ideas to pass time. Essentially, people have forgotten the old ways to spend your bored time and turn to their phone to pass time.
            An interesting think I found is that I didn’t completely realize that I take out my phone when I’m bored, I just thought I take it out whenever it’s convenient. And I have to admit, I took my phone to the bathroom sometimes because I was that hooked to my phone. Also, when I use my phone, I mainly use it for not educational purposes, so like social media and videos. One thing that caught me by surprise is that you can definitely use it to read articles and use that time effectively to learn something new. Due to my proper use of my phone, I wouldn’t know what’s happening politically or what’s in the news. That’s why Reed in the article mentions that a phone is good time-killer because you get to know what’s happening around you.
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=1&contentid=4706
This article compares the benefits and negatives of using a phone. She mentions brief yet valid points and elaborates a little on each idea to go in depth.
            Most of these were known for me, especially the negatives which motivated me to do this experiment. But the positives were a little surprising for me honestly. I forget the positive technological updates phones have, such as a health tracker or soothing music to calm your nerves. I always focus on the latest update of snapchat to see if the bugs will be fixed so my app will be faster, or waiting until new filters come out. Health was never an issue for me, but those are one of huge perks of having a phone since it has the technology to watch it. Examples include a step tracker, food intake monitoring, heart rate, etc. All in all I think this article had mostly common knowledge, but some of the things were relatively new to me since I don’t experience all the qualities of a phone.

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