...Valia Johnson Why do people text and drive? It could be for number of reason checking your facebook, twtter, instragram and other social websites or apps. we rely to much on our social media and with the smart phones we have today its almost impossible to put away. For example, you can get into a car accidents which nobody would know how far it would take for people to recover all because of you texting and driving. One mistake can lead you into something that you would never want to happen a disaster.It states that 11 percent of all drivers under the age of 20 involved in fatal crashes were reported as distracted at the time of crash. People dont know nothing about there surroundings because they are so concern about whats going on in there phone. Texting and driving is equivalent if not worse then driving under the influence. Alot of people get into car accidents because its either the driver is texting or the person walking is texting in not looking. Its becoming more addictive in our lifes that people feel if they dont have there phones with them its a part of them is missing. Texting sometimes mess with people vocabulary because they want to hurry up and text the person that they write in slag. This is why you get a ticket for drinving and texting because you can not keep your eyes on road if you are texting on the phone. Also can lead into car accidents. Research showed that 49 percent of drivers with cell phones under the age of 35 send or read text message while...
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...One main factor that adds to distracted driving for teens and prevents roads from being safe is texting and calling while driving. Let alone “texting and driving is a problem or all drivers, regardless, of their age” (“Distracted driving”). “Reading or sending a text is a distracted driving triple-threat because it falls into three categories it splits your attention with the driving you should be focusing on, takes yours hands off the wheel and you take your eyes off the road” (“Distracted driving”). On numerous occasions there has been an incident where teens are texting on their phones and start swerving into the lane I am driving in and it scares the life out of me every time. The thought that someone’s life can end do to reckless thinking and distracted driving can be a nightmare. For teens specifically, these types of behind-the wheel conversations seem to be especially prevalent (and dangerous). Several studies have found that teens are more likely to: text while driving and hold an ongoing, multi-text conversation while behind the wheel. In the IIHS HDLI article, Distracted...
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...messaging for any one driving in those states. Many people have their ideas about why cell phone use should be banned or not and if it can be safely done with new technology. Laws against texting while driving...
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...This Is 100% NOT MINE I TELL YOU YOU FAGGOT Texting me LOL, smiley face, is not a real conversation!! What’s the deal with casting Demi Moore in LOL along side Miley. Seriously what is that movie about??? A spider has its reproductive organs on one of its back legs. LOL. I can’t believe Kristern Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson this is not anything to LOL about because I love both of them. So Katie Holmes blinded sided Tom Cruise is this really about Scientology or about Tom coming out of the closet? LOL. This thing can get really addictive sometimes someone can just text you and say, “Sleeping at home, LOL”. And I’m thinking why you, Laughing Out Loud? Whenever Julius Malema’s name is mentioned, the sentence probably ends with, LOL. People no longer laugh, they would rather have the computer do it for them, could this be, that the Terminator: The Rise of the machine is a glimpse into the future? Imagine if when you attended stand-up comedy and whenever something funny was said you could just hold up a card that reads “LOL”, how funny would comedians really be? I recently came to the realization that no matter how much you want to succeed, you never will. Maybe if you were a bird you would be a penguin…no matter how much it wants to, it can never fly, LOL. Someone just said something funny, LOL, J…WOW in a world like this, I hate to see how future generations will...
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...gadgets from the good perspectives, they didn’t see from the other perspectives, which is the bad effect of using gadgets. Majority of students today, have facebook account, twitter account and so on. So, automatically, they use their mobile phone or laptop for social networking. When involves in social networking, they will post materials, pictures, comments and everything that will effect unfavorable reputation based on those. Or in the other words, it will tell society, who you are in the real life Besides that, it is become easy to be an addictive person when involves in gaming, texting, talking on the phone and socialize online. When addicted, their studies will disrupt and detracts. They also will sleep less because more concerning on activities on that gadgets. Furthermore, using of high-tech gadgets will lead to a slew of health problems, not only for children but also an adult. A gadgets lifestyle encourage to obesity. Why I say like that? Kids only sitting in front of computers, laptops, and iPads, spend their time at home. No more outdoor activities. For example, more used on computers, iPhones, video games will cause eye problems. Because, they only focusing on that activities. Using of iPods will cause a headache and hearing difficult when you all always use...
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...listen to your favorite songs on YouTube or Tweet about that awesome party you went to the night before. Technology is ever where, and there is no way to escape it. Smartphones, computers, social media and texting have become an asset to everyday human interactions. You touch a screen and reach someone presumed ready to respond, someone who also has a phone in hand. As time goes by you start to feel anxious because no one has replied to you. Technology negatively affects us by perpetuating the mindset of immediate satisfaction. The creation of various portable technological devices has slowly ingrained the idea of instant gratification. With gadgets like the iPhone or the Samsung Tablet, users are allowed to play games anywhere, update their Facebook status or email back their co-worker. These mobile devices allow us to keep in touch virtually everywhere and at any time. We grow up learning that whenever we want pleasure or enjoyment, it will automatically be granted to us. “And what I've found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are.” Conversations take place in real time and so you cannot control what you’re going to say. “So, the bottom line is texting, email, posting, all of these let us present the self we want to be. We get to edit and that means we get to delete, retouch… not too little, not too much, just right. Human relationships are rich and messy...
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...visitors (Shahrizan In addition, 2010). The study also found that the majority of students (74.7%) have Internet access at home and only 18.1 percent surf the Internet at the cafe. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/suren-ramasubbu/influence-of-social-media-on-teenagers_b_7427740.html http://blog.malaysia-asia.my/2015/03/malaysia-social-media-statistics-2014.html Real Life Teens Social Media Addiction With the rising phenomenon of social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter, constant interconnectivity with friends and family is now part of a teens daily life. However as opposed to enriching their lives, is social media just another avenue for teens to become addicted to? One of the biggest problems facing our teens today is the addictive, pervasive effects of social media. It can lead to increased distractibility, anxiety, depression and apathy. Fear of missing out (FOMO) is a very real feeling thats starting to permeate through teens social relationships. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are making this increasingly more difficult for a teen to avoid. Teens can quickly become self-absorbed in a superficial online world. As a direct result, they crave affirmations from their peers in the form of likes, favorites, shares, retweets, reblogs, and revines. They can even start to feel irrelevant without loads of social media attention. Teens who have trouble connecting face to face may depend on the Internet as a place where they feel understood by their peers and...
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...Meagan Donnelly William S. Durden English 102 March 21, 2013 Smartphones and the Social Life On October 17th, 1973 we made a huge leap forward in communication. The first mobile phone call was made by a company known then and now as Motorola. Mobile phones were not widely known of until the mid-80’s and were not even carried and used by many individuals until the early 90’s. Stated by the U.N. Telecom Agency; now, in 2013 103.9% of the United States population uses a cell phone! That means some people carry more than one cell phone and many young children are carrying phones as well. According to Jennifer Ludden, on average a child has a cell phone by the age of eight, and a smart phone by the age of fourteen. Cell phones have now become the main means of communication, and not necessarily through phone calls. People are most commonly communicating through text, whether it be text messaging, emailing, or with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. People are now able to do a countless amount of tasks from their cell phones. You will commonly hear many people say “there’s an app for that!”. Essentially referring to the fact that you don’t need to go to the library or ask a friend for information that you are not knowledgeable of, you can just browse the web on your phone, or download an app that will have what you are looking for. You may be thinking that this gives people more time during the day to do more important daily tasks, like spend time with...
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...This may sound familiar or you may have heard something like this: You're out to dinner with friends, and everyone's having a good time, until you think you’re forgetting something. It's been 20 minutes, and you really want to check Facebook, or Twitter, or your email. Forget about wanting to check; this is needing to check. You finally give in check your phone under the table, or for girls, fake an urgent visit to the bathroom, where you'll take a stroll on the Internet while sitting in a stall. More than half of Americans would rather give up chocolate, alcohol and caffeine for a week before temporarily leaving their phones, according to a survey. One-third would give up sex, 22% would give up their toothbrushes (versus 40% of iPhone users, who evidently love their phone more than clean teeth) and 21% would rather go shoeless before separating from a mobile phone. Sixty-six percent sleep with their smart phones by their side. Wow. Our addiction is so severe that people described going 24 hours without Internet like to quitting an alcohol or cigarette habit. People who have been asked questions about being without Internet said they feel lonely and felt upset at being deprived of it. One person actually said it was like “having my hand chopped off.” The students recognized that there are joys in life besides browsing the web, but still said they were feeling distress, sadness, boredom or paranoia. "Media is my drug; without it I was lost," said a British student. "I am...
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...Acknowledgement We, the researchers, would like to extend our gratitude to all those people who helped and supported us in completing this term paper. We would like to thank our beloved professor, Fr. Kim Lachica, S.J., for the lessons, guidance and advices he bestowed upon us. He inspired us to work efficiently on this project. In addition, we would like to thank him for motivating us to work hard in achieving our goals in life. Moreover, we would also want to express our gratefulness to the one who gave all of his time to us in the interview and shared his personal life experiences as an entrepreneur which also motivated us to work harder in our fields. He is no other than Mr. Steffen Eisenbarh, the owner of GROUPWORX101 Company. For without him, we would not finish this project. In addition, we express our sincere gratitude to our families who understood and encouraged us in every time we spent in making this term paper. Last but not the least, we would like to extend our heart-felt gratitude to our Almighty Father for His unending and unconditional support He had given upon us. He enlightened us throughout the struggles and experience we’ve been through in making this term paper. Without the help and support of the particular persons that mentioned above, we would face many difficulties while doing this term paper. Again, we take this opportunity to express our gratitude to the people who have been instrumental in the successful completion of this term paper. [continues] ...
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...Effect of Social Media on Students Social media has evolved tremendously over the years. It has become nearly a necessity to people around the world. Why take away the social media if it helps us out so much and has made things more accessible? The truth is that social media has become almost as addictive as a drug and a use for chatting and doing things that are not important, when instead people could be out doing important things and building relationships. Social media distorts our views on society and the real world, affecting the way that people communicate and has made us more dependent on a screen than face-to-face. Social media is destroying the social skills of high school and college students for the following reasons including: it causes danger, social media includes cyber bullying, and it can cause personality and brain disorders. The first reason that social media has a bad effect on the social skills of young adults is that it can cause personality and brain disorders. A person on the internet can be everything that they think a person wants them to be to be the “cool” kid. This is a bad habit to develop because students might tend to show a personality that is not them. What will happen when they go out into the real world and communicate? It is plain and clear that they will feel tense and get nervous since being behind a computer screen does not require an individual to face that person and require an automatic reply. On the contrary, when facing a person...
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...On a daily basis, I carry my phone, a necessity for most people my age. My phone carries all of the people I talk to within arm’s reach. It carries all of my connections to the rest of the world through the various addictive social media apps. In the frightening case that the small glass rectangle that controls my life dies, I carry a charger. I carry the grand and overused label of being an entitled, technology-obsessed millennial. I carry the dependency of texting, snapchatting, or talking to people every time I get the chance. I carry the understanding that I AM an entitled, technology-obsessed millennial. Before I leave my judge-free house, I make sure that I carry makeup. It helps me feel a little more confident about myself and the way I look. I carry the upsetting fear that most teenage girls can relate to. I carry numerous snacks that shortly aid my seemingly never-ending hunger. I carry the insecurity that I am constantly being judged by my peers on my way of life or how I’m perceived. I carry extras of almost everything in preparation for possibilities. Those possibilities include...
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...Here is a list of reasons why from the Mayo Clinic and Psychology Today. • Aroused nervous system (which makes falling asleep difficult) • Sensory overload • Lack of restorative sleep • Lack of movement (leading to increase obesity rates) • Exposure to violence • Atrophy in gray brain matter (where processing occurs in the brain) • Addictive tendencies (due to dopamine being released in the system, a hormone which simulates reward processing in the brain and addictions) • Impaired brain function (decrease in impulse control, abnormal brain activity which leads to poor task performance) In this article I have talked about how screen time can have negative effects. But not all screen time is bad. Educational apps and TV shows can be a great way for children to enhance their developing brains; it just needs to be limited and not played directly before bed time. References Children's health. (n.d.). Retrieved August 28...
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...Addiction: The Ghost in the Machine Sumeet Kshatriya Senior Project – Final Draft Dominican International School Senior Project Advisor: Mr. Michael Wise Mentors: Mr. Jacek Kaczmarek & Ms. Janice Doyle Due Date: April 7, 2010 Table of Contents: Introduction………………………………………………………………………3 History…………………..........………………………………………………..3-4 Literature Search…………..…………………………………………………4-5 Body…………………………………………………..……………………….5-9 * Symptoms of cell phone addiction………………………………….…5-6 * Negative Effects of Cell Phones………………………………..……..6-7 * Possible Treatment……………………………………………………..7-8 Data……………………………………………………………………….…….....8 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………….....9 Survey………………………………………………………………………...…10 Survey Results…………………………………………………………………11 Appendix……………………………………………………………….……12-16 Terminology………………………………………………………………….…17 Bibliography………………………………………………………….…….18-19 Addiction: The Ghost in the Machine Introduction: Addiction is the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, such as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma. You might be bewildered by the title of my paper. What type of ghost and what machine? The addiction that will be discussed is cell phone addiction, so the machine is the cell phone and the ghost is the addiction. Cell phone addiction is one of the most hidden addictions of all time. Not all addictions are related...
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...Computer addiction A disorder in which the individual turns to the Internet or plays computer games in an attempt to change moods, overcome anxiety, deal with depression, reduce isolation or loneliness, or distract themselves from overwhelming problems. The elderly, as well as children and adolescents, are particularly vulnerable because they may not realize the extent of their dependency. In many instances, individuals with computer addiction may seek help for another condition, such as depression, phobias or other addictions. Computer addiction is defined as the immoderate/compulsive use of computers so much so that it interferes with daily activities. It is a disorder whereby the individual devotes oneself to activities on the internet such as checking of e-mails, going on social networking sites or plays computer games for 12 hour or more at a time. Computer addicts turn to the internet/computers to attempt to change their moods, overcome anxiety, deal with depression, reduce the feeling of isolation or loneliness, or to distract themselves from overwhelming problems that they are facing. The groups of people that are especially susceptible are the elderly, children and teenagers. This is because they might not realise the extent of their dependency on the computer. Effects of Computer Addiction Computer addiction can have a number of negative effects on individuals physically or psychologically. Psychologically, the most critical...
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