Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Smartphone Addictions

If someone pulled out a gun on a crowded train that you were on, will you notice? These people who were on the train where a 20-year-old San Francisco University student got shot did not. The shocking truth comes when we see the security camera footage. The killer  is seen multiple times with a handgun in view. He waved the gun a couple times and at one point even wiped his nose with the it. No one nearby had seemed to notice until the blast actually went off. Read the article here.

This article astonished me with the addiction so many people has with their smartphones. As the iphone and other smartphones are coming up with attracting new applications, and with the prices going down so that a lot more people could afford them, the number of people being addicted to smartphones are increasing. Everyday in New Trier, I see a huge number of people walking down the hallways and going down the stairways staring at their phones. This article states that 73% of people who has lost their phones feel panicked. People who are addicted to smartphones have very hard times overcoming as they suffer from anxiety when they lose their phone for just a couple minutes. I think smartphone addiction will be a much bigger problem in the future as smartphones distract so many people during process of doing things.

Do you think smartphone addiction is a problem? What do you think think people can do to stop the addiction?

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