Aliyah H

Cell Phones Taking Over by Aliyah H.

“Your cell phone has already replaced your camera, calendar and alarm clock… Don't let it replace your family” -unknown. Your cell phone is practically taking over your life, but all of us need to make sure and remember that family should always come first.  New studies show that people that are 8-18-years-olds spend over 7 hours a day using electronic devices.  So that's over 50 hours per week.  Also that's over 200 hours a month!  That's why everyone should have more family and friend time than technology time.

Everyone knows that our cell phones are replacing everything.  However, family should be our first priority.  Someone could be saying something important to you, but you might not even hear them or even notice that someone was talking to you because your eyes are looking at your phone.  That's why there should be more family and friend time and less technology time. 

Another thing is that everything your child does or posts on the internet leaves something called a digital footprint even when they delete something.  That   could be life threatening for them knowing that whatever they posted years ago and deleted is still out there.  “This new technology also opens a new life or world for people especially teenagers” (Weisskirch).

Everyone's cell phone and electronic devices are taking over the world as we know it.  Come on now, we hardly ever see people having a real face to face conversation in public anymore.  Instead, people are always talking or texting on their devices.  Most of the time their texting the person right next to them rather than talking to him or her.  Also, the behavior of phones is having a bad influence on our kids and also even adults (D.r  Radesky).  

It is also unsafe for kids to be on the internet all the time because people can be cyberbullying them and there are lots of inappropriate things online that you definitely don't want your children looking at.

Another reason cell phones are taking over is because they are addicting to most people.  Some people can't even have their phone in another room because they think someone will text them and they feel like they need to text them right back.  People use their technology and media devices so often that they need to keep their devices an arm's length away at the most!  I also believe that if our kupuna could live without technology so can we!  So, we don't always need technology.

Some people argue that time on technology is better than family time.  However, what people don’t realize is that family time is to talk and have a face to face conversation about your day and share that emotion, which you can’t do if your eyes are locked on a screen.  For example, if someone that you needed to talk to was right in front of you, you're not going to stop what you're doing and pull out your phone and text them, you arejust going to go right ahead and talk to them!

If people use too much technology then they’re going to miss out on creating that family bond that could last a lifetime. This is why we should think before letting our kids into this whole new world called Technology. Clearly people should spend way more time with their family and friends verses technology!