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Smartphones Improvements: positive and negative impact on society | Alwaleed Al Afaliq - 8 views

  • It’s a technology that keeps on developing everyday to make the life of each person easer
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      abc
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      def
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      agger
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      icic
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      O nice!
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      wow
  • In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. As Torilsmith says “everyday I witness someone trip on a crack in a sidewalk, almost tumble down flights of stairs, run into trees and have to slam on breaks…all as a result of being mesmerized by their smartphones”
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      important
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      oh thanks~~
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      good
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      O nice!
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      nice~
    • wing11001828
       
      The negative impact
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      the negative impact
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      thx
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    • yanneschow
       
      this is a site about negative effects of smartphones
  • In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. As Torilsmith says “everyday I witness someone trip on a crack in a sidewalk, almost tumble down flights of stairs, run into trees and have to slam on breaks…all as a result of being mesmerized by their smartphones”
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      agger
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      second impact
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      agger
  • technology that can keep you busy for most of the day
  • In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. As Torilsmith says “everyday I witness someone trip on a crack in a sidewalk, almost tumble down flights of stairs, run into trees and have to slam on breaks…all as a result of being mesmerized by their smartphones”
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      example
  • another negative impact of the improvement of smartphones is that it is changing the social norms of our lives
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      negative impacts on smartphones
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      negative impacts on smartphones
  • disrespectful without noticing that being busy on their smartphones
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      second imapct
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      first disadvantage
  • keep you busy for most of the day.
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      1st Point
  • Redesigning smartphones resulted in a technology that can keep you busy for most of the day. In many cases, this can keep us oblivious to our surroundings. As Torilsmith says “everyday I witness someone trip on a crack in a sidewalk, almost tumble down flights of stairs, run into trees and have to slam on breaks…all as a result of being mesmerized by their smartphones” (Torilsmith, January 2012) Moreover, another negative impact of the improvement of smartphones is that it is changing the social norms of our lives. People are starting to be disrespectful without noticing that being busy on their smartphones is the reason. There are many things that show how redesigning and improving smartphones change our social norms. For example, teenagers now a days are texting all the times and adults are receiving work-related phone calls or emails during holydays. Once again, these are just certain negative impacts of smartphones on the society that we must keep in mind while working on improving that technology.
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      negative impact -keeping you busy for most of the day -changing the social norms of our lives
  • changing the social norms of our lives.
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      2nd points
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      absbbsbsb
  • There are many things
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      This is an interesting essay!
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      adadad
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      asd
  • Smartphones Improvements: positive and negative impact on society Posted on September 19, 2013 | 3 Comments In our contemporary world, smartphones are playing a very important role in people`s life.  It’s a technology that keeps on developing everyday to make the life of each person easer, but the real question is what do people feel about the raped development and impact of such a technology on the society? To answer these questions, I decided to analyze the impact of smartphones on our society in this blog especially since it will help me work on developing a smartphone design project that I will be involved in soon. Of course, both positive and negative impact exist and must be analyzed separately.
  • keep you busy for most of the day.
  • must include reducing the negative impacts
  • what do people feel about the raped development and impact of such a technology on the society?
  • changing the social norms of our lives
  • improve our lives get easier.
  • disrespectful
  • smartphones makes it much easier to find answers of any question at anytime and anywhere
  • It’s a technology that keeps on developing everyday to make the life of each person easer
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      useful
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      useful
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      Positive and Negative effect
  • Redesigning smartphones resulted in a technology that can keep you busy for most of the day
  • changing the social norms of our lives
  • changing our world
  • ything, Now smartphones allow us
  • Redesigning smartphones resulted in a technology that can keep you busy for most of the day.
  • There are more and more benefits of improving and redesigning smartphones.
    • jeffpoke2019
       
      smartphones has positive and negative impact on society 
  • ted phone calls or emails during holydays. Once again, these are just certain negative impacts of smartphones on the society that we must keep in mind while working on improving that technology.
    • jenny1415bucb
       
      how technology change our life.
  • teenagers now a days are texting all the times and adults are receiving work-rela
  • keep you busy
  • keep you busy
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      useful
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      useful
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    The website shows the positive and negative impact on society
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    the best thing i ever read
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    the negative impact
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tsoiwingwai

Smartphones bad for children's social skills? - 4 views

  • Children’s increased use of smartphones and tablets could hinder the development of parts of their brain that affect social skills
    • tsoiwingwai
       
      It's true!!!
    • tsoiwingwai
       
      Parents pay little attention on it!!!
  • This graph shows the technology usage of children before age 2. Several researchers agree that at a young age, children are unable to comprehend their purpose.
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  • This Graph shows the average age of social maturity from 1990 to 2012.
  • If a child can escape from a social situation by turning on a device, their social development will be stunted,”
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    Smartphones are bad for children's social skills
tungcytn

Technology and Repetitive Strain Injury - 2 views

  • Continually leaning forward to keep an eye on smartphones, pads, personal gaming systems, and the many other personal electronics on the market today can also have a negative impact on neck health.
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      physical harm
  • Text Neck But thumb and wrist injuries aren’t the only way that personal electronic devices can inflict pain on dedicated users. Continually leaning forward to keep an eye on smartphones, pads, personal gaming systems, and the many other personal electronics on the market today can also have a negative impact on neck health
dennislee1

News: Frequent Cell Phone Use Linked to Anxiety, Lower Grades and Reduced Happiness in ... - 5 views

    • dennislee1
       
      This article is about the correlation between frequent use of cell phones and anxiety
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      It is worth taking a look!
  • Thus, for the population studied, high frequency cell phone users tended to have lower GPA, higher anxiety, and lower satisfaction with life (happiness) relative to their peers who used the cell phone less often. The statistical model illustrating these relationships was highly significant.
  • Frequent Cell Phone Use Linked to Anxiety, Lower Grades and Reduced Happiness in Students, Kent State Research Shows
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      Consequence of frequent cell phone use
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  • Results of the analysis showed that cell phone use was negatively related to GPA and positively related to anxiety.
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      Consequence of frequent cell phone use
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    Thanks for sharing. It can remind us that we should beware of using cell phone.
ka12000302

HKBU - Department of Physical Education - 0 views

  • B.A. (Hons) in Physical Education & Recreation Management
    • ka12000302
       
      i m now studying this program.
    • chrislam113
       
      O nice!
    • chankaiwing
       
      wow.....ho Charm Ar!
  • Internship Programme
  • USA Recreation and Sports Camps
    • ka12000302
       
      i hv been to the USA camp for internship.
    • yanneschow
       
      oh thats cool!
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      O nice!
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      good
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    GOOD!!! I Share the same view with you!!
lamkasin

Students can live without tablets but not smartphones - Ball State University - 2 views

    • lamkasin
       
      This article is about using smartphone in our daily life. There are lots of advantages of using these technology. However, some students are addicted to smartphone.
    • dennislee1
       
      Yes, it is so easy to get addicted...
  • Tablets are for entertainment purposes, not for writing papers and doing class projects — key components of higher education,” Hanley said. “Tablets don’t have the keyboard accessibility and power as compared to laptops and PCs. However, many students plan on getting a tablet when they graduate in order to watch movies, play games or access social media.
    • lamkasin
       
      The purposes of using smartphone.
chrislam113

Some Negative Consequences of Social Media | Jared Ogden's Rhetoric and Civic Life Blog - 1 views

  • My point is that focus and attention has suffered at the hands of technology, but more specifically social media
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      Reduction of attention and focus
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      ???
    • chrislam113
       
      Nice one!
  • This lack of practice in sustained formal speaking has eroded the art of verbal rhetoric.
    • dennislee1
       
      Decrease in our verbal skills
    • yanneschow
       
      oh thats definitely not good!
    • dennislee1
       
      It is a pity that our verbal skills get worsened
hailyleung

Research Studies Effects of Smartphone on Information Literacy - 3 views

  • Smartphones, such as Apple's iPhone and other mobile phones with computer-like capabilities, are rapidly becoming commonplace on college campuses.
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      Definition of Smartphone
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      Yes. That's true.
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      Yes, it does develop so quickly
    • piiing
       
      so short
  • In the first year of her study, currently under way, Yarmey-Tylutki is examining the functionality and capabilities of the Apple iPhone to determine how smartphones either help or hinder students' achievement of these established learning outcomes.
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      The First year study that Yarmey-Tyluki do about smartphone
  • The outcomes of her research will help Yarmey-Tylutki to identify ways in which the Weinberg Memorial Library can enhance information literacy through new technologies.
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      The use of Yarmey-Tylutki study she expected
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    no hi-light :(
tszhin605

Nighttime smartphone use zaps workers' energy | MSUToday | Michigan State University - 1 views

    • andrewsoo1hk
       
      yea, cannot sleep with smart phone
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      yes, cannot sleep with smart phone XD
  • Smartphones are almost perfectly designed to disrupt sleep,
  • Using a smartphone to cram in more work at night results in less work the next day, indicates new research co-authored by a Michigan State University business scholar. In a pair of studies surveying a broad spectrum of U.S. workers, Russell Johnson and colleagues found that people who monitored their smart phones for business purposes after 9 p.m. were more tired and were less engaged the following day on the job.
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      negative effect
jeffpoke2019

Smartphones are killing us - and destroying public life - Salon.com - 0 views

  • The host collects phones at the door of the dinner party.
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      smartphones_are_killing_us_and_destroying_public_life
tungcytn

Pros and Cons of Allowing Digital Devices in the Classroom - 1 views

    • tungcytn
       
      related side effect of digital devices( smart phoen might be included)
jenlee11

UA researchers concerned about students' excessive cell phone use - 0 views

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      condition on using cellphone while driving
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      accidents caused by
ka12000302

The Impacts of Smartphones | Ruth Gizat Abayneh - Academia.edu - 1 views

    • vanesayau
       
      It is a pdf file what is showing us the pros and cons (mainly about disadvantage) points about smartphones in academical perspective. I highlighted some and give it a sticky note, feel free to check it and give a comment, guys.
    • vanesayau
       
      It pointed out the cons of smartphones of this new generation, like addiction because the youth do not how to control their desire and curiosity to digital devices.
    • chrislam113
       
      O nice!
  •   Abayneh 8 Smartphones may be smart, but the constant use of smartphone could be dumbing a  person who is using is constantly. Back before smartphones, people would use their mind to try and solve problems or answer a question. Today, smartphones are providing everything to the user. As a result, people developed the need to turn to their smartphone for every single question, instead of taking the time to think and answer for themselves. People should use their own brain to solve problems rather than having to develop a preference to use the applications on their smartphone.
  •   Abayneh 10 result the owner to many problems also including identity theft by taking personal information that are already in the smartphone. The most observed negative impact of smartphones is addiction, or developing a huge attachment or dependency toward using smartphones. Smartphones enable people to stay more connected than ever but the addiction continues to grow (Kelly). Smartphone addiction is a serious issue that needs serious attention. A smartphone addict is someone who checks for messages every five minutes, a person who finds it necessary to get up in the middle of the night or early in the morning to check for messages or a person that uses smartphone in inappropriate  places or where it is unnecessary to use such as in churches, bathrooms, and while also dining. For some people all these acts might be normal or non-harmful activities but it is these same acts that interfere with a pers on’s well -being and the well-being of society. Some people are so addicted to their smartphone that they are even disconnected from the people in their lives.   Smartphones limit how humans interact by reducing the development of interpersonal closeness and trust and leading people to feel less empathy and understanding from their partners (qtd. in Suddes). People who are dependent on their smartphones do every activity on their smartphone and they constantly check it every single second. Many smartphone users are addicted to the features of their smartphones that they hear phantom text message vibrations when there is no message received (qtd. in Collins). Teenagers are alertly watching their smartphones. Due to this most schools forbid students the use phones in the school compound but some teenagers who can’t live a day without their smartphones sneak their s martphones in any way to text or to do whatever they do on their device. This leads the students to suspension if ever caught and it also disrupts the learning process.
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  • negative
  • radiation
    • matthewleung135
       
      one of the disadvantage of smartphone~
  • The Impacts of Smartphones
    • ka12000302
       
      it is a academic paper about the impacts of using smart phone
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    why it is so big?
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    It is undoubtedly true that smartphone is a double-edge sword. On one hand, it facilitates our live by providing fast and reliable communication channels. On the other hand, we, as the smartphone user, may totally addict and rely on the device. We must pay attention in using such e-gadgets
andrewsoo1hk

The Pros and Cons of Smartphones | Chron.com - 3 views

    • andrewsoo1hk
       
      3 pros and 3 cons of smart phones
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      thanks
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      O nice!
    • chankaiwing
       
      i do agree.
  • Con: Eternally at WorkThe downside to the productivity and communication tools that smartphones provide is that employees are always connected to their work. With work-specific apps, the ability to connect with co-workers and employees at all times, and the ability to transfer data, it's very easy for your work to swiftly dominate your life with a smartphone. Such exhausting constant contact can lead to low morale, poor productivity and malaise in your workforce.
  • Con: Distractions AboundThe smartphone's useful tools are contrasted by the bevy of endless ways you can mindlessly occupy time. Games, social networking applications, videos, and fully functional Web surfing are a few examples. The modern smartphone can easily consume your entire day if allowed and produce almost nothing of value for it. Employees can easily idle away an entire shift instead of focusing on the task at hand.
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      playing phones usually make people ignoring others and wasting time
    • hailyleung
       
      Suggestion: Dont use your phone for a day see what happen
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      Let's try ! LOL
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  • Con: Instant ObsolescenceThe dark side of constant innovation is the constant rendering of older units as obsolete. As each generation of smartphone comes out, older systems become increasingly under-supported. This necessitates users purchasing a new phone every two years or so just to keep up with current technology -- a decidedly expensive venture for a company looking to equip their entire workforce with smartphones.
suetsuetlee

Globalization Essay - Term Paper - Verasnow1 - 0 views

  • definition of globalization changes. “A phenomenon by which economic agents in any given part of the world are affected by events elsewhere in the world; the growing integration of the national economies of the world to the degree that we may be witnessing the emergence and operation of a single worldwide economy.”
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      The change of Globalization 
suetsuetlee

Globalization (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) - 0 views

  • They provided the necessary infrastructure for a cosmopolitan future socialist civilization, while simultaneously functioning in the present as indispensable organizational tools for a working class destined to undertake a revolution no less oblivious to traditional territorial divisions than the system of capitalist exploitation it hoped to dismantle.
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      Idea of Globalization 
bunbunwai

The effect of smart phones on social interaction | JY Liew - Academia.edu - 0 views

  • A smart phone is an advanced communication gadget with advanced phone capabilities i.e. it hasmagnificent computing abilities.
    • matthewleung135
       
      definition of smartphone
    • yanneschow
       
      oh it's useful
    • chrislam113
       
      O nice!
    • bunbunwai
       
      Smart phone is implying the changing of humanity
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  • Smart phones are responsible for the alienation of oral mode of communication. This implies thatthe phones effect to communication cannot be brushed off or not when it also affects productivity of individuals and firms
    • bunbunwai
       
      Smartphones is changing our ways of communication and change our ways of sharing
  • Smartphones are addictive phones. Individuals thathave subscribed to social networks are unable to do away with them despite the intensity of their assignments
    • bunbunwai
       
      Individual addication is marked as one of the negative effects brought by smart phones
  • Despite being unable to attend and concentratein strategic meetings, employees have been unable to meet their datelines due to muchengagement in the social networks through smart phones.
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    That's true!! Thanks for sharing!!!
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    I do agree the last sentence in this article. It is true that we have avoid our live controlled by digital gadgets. Instead, we have to make a good use of these gadgets in facilitating our live
ka12000302

Best Smartphones Comparison 2014 - Reviews and Ratings - 0 views

  • Compare Smartphones
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      detail comparison
Liping Deng

Google Introduces New Search Tools to Try to Read Our Minds - NYTimes.com - 2 views

    • Liping Deng
       
      This article introduce the new search features of Google.
    • chrislam113
       
      O nice!
  • Google’s trying to become the omnipotent, human-like “Star Trek” search engine
    • Liping Deng
       
      Wonder what "Star Trek" computer is? You can get an idea from this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA1hD3XRlh0
  • When people ask Google certain questions, it will now try to predict the person’s follow-up questions and answer them, too.
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  • The ‘Star Trek’ computer shouldn’t just answer questions, it should make you more intelligent, should anticipate what you expect next,
    • Liping Deng
       
      Do you think Google will really make us more intelligent by providing the questions we expect? Or it will make us more stupid?
  • semantic search product
    • Liping Deng
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