Cellphone Addiction

The amount of time an average person spends on their smartphone is making it to where we spend so little time actually communicating in person and instead more through text message. We as individuals are becoming more anti-social because of us prioritizing our cellphones so highly. Also, we don't think much of it but a lot of cons can come from being so addicted to our cellphones such as anti-social, lacking a better education, car wrecks, etc. Social interaction is important in your lifestyle and taking that away to sit and do your socializing on your phone isn't going to get you very far in life.

One major con to how addicted we as humans are to our cellphones is texting/being on our phones while driving. Driving can be already dangerous enough but now with how obsessed we are to checking our phones to see what's new is making it even at a higher risk for something bad to happen. Recently, my friends and I were driving back to Arlington for the weekend and while at a light a car behind us ran into us at a red light. Luckily we were all okay and there were no damages to our vehicle. After police showed up to get the report we found out later that she had no idea we were even stopped because she was replying to her boyfriends text message. We all thought, is sending a text to your boyfriend that important where you risk others lives? Could she not have pulled over and sent a text or call him?

Another con of cellphones is just the amount of time we actually spend on our phones in one day when we could be out interacting with others in person. Sitting and staring at our screen isn't healthy and we don't realize how much we do it until others tell us or we read about it. For instance in one of David Brooks article "Intimacy for the Avoidant" he state, "we check our phones on average 221 times a day -- about every 4.3 minutes." The fact stood out and shocked me at first until I started to think about it and it was believable. Just think to yourself how many times you get on your phone to check if you've a text, send a text, make a phone call, check your email, browse the internet, and check your social media. If we took our even just half of the time on our phones think about how much more "free" you would feel and not trapped in our phones and letting our phones control our lives.