Almost every teen an adult can think of has some sort of high-tech-gadget like an iPhone or some sort of Samsung Galaxies that they can never take their eyes off of. Their eyes are glued to the screen while they scroll through the most recent “tweets”, ignoring everyone outside of their “precious” phone. Whether a is looking at new “Instagram” posts or just texting, recognize that phones have changed everything. People’s lives have been affected by cell phones positively through easy access to further our knowledge and negatively by how easy it is to commit “cyber-crimes.”
Cell phones have positively put an impact on our lives by letting it be so simple to gain knowledge with just our finger tips and handy-dandy phones. For example, if a teenager were to be needing help outside of school on Geometry, there’s thousands of apps or websites that today’s technology has provided for us. On some that we would use, we can just type in the problem and get the answers and help in a few quick seconds. In addition, cell phones have abled families and friends to connect no matter how far they live apart. On iPhone’s, a Grandma that lives in California could “FaceTime” or video-chat her grandkids that live in New York. These high-tech, new phones have positively affected the lives of every civilian that owns one.
On the negative side, phones have caused more “catfish” as MTV calls it, and kids/teens to become anti-social to the outside world. To illustrate, a catfish is man or woman who pretends to be someone they aren’t and lure people in to take advantage of them and take their money. So many people have taken advantage of also what phones and internet has brought to us that laws and TV shows are being made up for them. In addition, some kids and adults have become highly antisocial to the world outside their phones or virtual worlds they’ve entered. Some kids and teens get on their knees and cry and throw the two-year-old-Walmart-kid-fit because they get they get their phones taken away from them. They act like it is the end of the world because they don’t have their “virtual friends” to talk to. For those reasons, phones have negatively put an impact on 77% of the world that owns cell phones.
Whether a person looks at the positive or negative aspects that mobile phones have simulated on today’s generation. There are dangerous websites and people on the “web” that access everything through cell phones, especially on social networks. Cellular devices really have caused excellent improvements in our lives, but have also greatly impacted us negatively as well.