Negative Effects of Cell Phones on People and Children

Cell phones are harmful to people and children because they can’t manage themselves and decrease academic performance. One reason why cell phones are harmful to people is that people can’t control time in their everyday lives. People should get their phones and electronics out of their faces and look at what they are doing or what they should do. Otis Johnson said that “People barely paid attention to their surroundings, and instead studied their smartphones while crossing the street, engrossed in their own personal bubbles”(Kuss, 2015, p.1).  This quote illustrates that this prisoner who was released saw so many people with new technology and how after so many years of not being in everyday life. People don’t talk to each other face-to-face with others, they just talk by texting on messages, Snapchat, and other social media websites. There are many humans who love to be on their phones. Some of them can’t take their phones a second from their faces. This quote states that “The numbers illustrating the dangers of cellphone use while driving are downright startling. In fact, at any given time throughout the day, approximately 660,000 drivers are attempting to use their phones while behind the wheel of an automobile.   In the quote, it says that smartphones are serious risks when using them while driving a car. Even if a person just checks his/her phone because they heard a notification sound they only want to check if someone texted them something. That one glance at a phone puts someone at risk of hitting a car and being in an accident. This is why cellphones are linked to car accidents and deaths on the streets because one person couldn't wait for 5 mins until they check their phone. 

Cell phones don’t just harm adults they also harm children with academic performance and making children additive to phones. Letting children use cell phones makes kids do really bad things because of what they see in the videos they are watching. This is how parents are trying to help their children. “After witnessing what he called a “dramatic, very violent outburst”, from one of his sons when taking away his smartphone, a Colorado father(and medical professional) helped create a new lobbying group, called Parents Against Underage Smartphones (PAUS). The group provides links to a wide range of research into the negative effects of smartphone use on children”(Bowman,2017). Parents are forming groups to help their children with trying to protect and provide help for them. Many children get very addicted to their phone or any electronic device, this is really bad because the more a child looks at their devices the more time they spend on them. Children spend lots of time on electronic devices than on school work. Their time decreases to having less time to do school work, which makes their homework late or not finished which turns their grade down.  Adults and children don’t control their time on phones which makes them addicted to them, this is why phones and electronic devices are harming everyone. 

Some disagree with the statement that cell phones are harming adults and children. They think that cell phones are helping people instead of harming them. They think this because phones let people do it. Cell phones help us talk on the phone wherever we go, they help us if we are lost. There is a map that we can use, we can explore the web, people use google search to search things up quicker than before. In this statement, it says why cell phones are good “Cell phones have brought a whole new meaning to the term multitasking. Twenty years ago it was not possible to talk to the office while you were at the grocery store picking up some necessary items….Cell phones have enabled us to do various tasks all at the same time. Cell phones have also enabled families to keep in closer touch with each other”(Stewart, pg.1). This passage, tells people that cell phones aren’t so bad. They let people communicate with each other, they help an adult talk to the office, the phones help you multitask your life better. This also states that the phones can help you finish/do all your tasks at the same time. But, phones harm adults and children from them being more and more addicted to the devices the more that they use them. There are many accidents that happen because of cell phones. This is why cell phones are harmful to adults and children.