The positive and negative qualities of phones

Phones are an amazing and big part of today’s technology and can be both positive and negative. My mom has always told me that if you have too much of a good thing, is no longer a good thing. Phones can cause greediness and take away the courtesy we had once for each other. They can slowly take away our intelligence and common sense without us even realizing, but can also make life much easier.

First, phones can make us all very greedy. It all started out when we were younger, and one person got a phone. Slowly they became more and more popular, and are now considered a necessity in today’s society. If a person looses or breaks a phone, they just get a new one. If the phone doesn’t come with certain features, or if we do not necessarily approve of the way it is laid out, we just get a new one. Without phones, people would be way more courteous. With phones, they are so inconsiderate. If you are speaking with someone, and they pull out their phone and start to text, it is safe to assume that that phone is more important to that individual than you are at that particular moment. Without phones, people believe that the world would come to an end, and that we would cease to exist! Little do people know, this is not the case! People in the past, have lived without technology, and actually were much smarter than many of us are today.

Second, people seem to believe that you can just be lazy while you are texting. No one bothers to capitalize the word “I”, spell things correctly, or use any other form of correct grammar. Studies have shown that the intelligence level of today’s youth is decreasing because of “texting grammar”. Be honest with yourself: would it kill you to use correct grammar while texting? To take a few extra seconds during your text to exercise your grammar skills as opposed to loosing intelligence? People don’t bother to use common sense and spell words right that we learn in Kindergarten. They won’t take a couple seconds to calculate a simple equation like “6*5” or “4*3”. Today’s society just depend on the phone to do all the work for us, and in a way, the phones are much smarter than we are. Despite many negative things, phones also have positive qualities.

Phones were designed to make communication easier, especially through longer distances. (Ironically, it makes the communication with your family worse!) For example: I have a sister that lives in New York, and thanks to phones, I am able to contact her (almost) from where ever I am. It would be much harder without phones, and to hand write a letter, get it sent, and have her receive it, in a reasonable amount of time.

In conclusion, phones can be a very useful tool, but when we get to the point of greediness, laziness, or when we are inconsiderate to others, it has gone way too far. “Too much of a good thing, is no longer a good thing!”