phoneEveryone wants one, not only adults but kids in elementary schools. People on the sidewalks are walking and looking at it 24/7. Kids beg their parents for this precious item even though they know that they won’t get it. Most people get this item when they are older, but nowadays parents are giving gifts to their children and they get it when they are really young. It is a really good gift, but some children don’t really deserve that type of gift because then they will get an over obsessive behavior. Some children can take that gift as a real gift and control how often they use this item. This precious item is a smartphone. Smartphones and both boons and curses.

First of all, adults and kids have phones these days and people are looking at it very often. People all over the world use texts, WhatsApp, and emails to connect with each other. It is a very good thing that people use their phones to speak with people all over the country. You can talk to people and bring back the time that you spent with them or you could simply ask where are you. You can use the phone if you get lost then you can use it to help you find the people that you went with. Sometimes they stay on their phones a little, too long. According to mobilestatistics.com people are on their phone for 23 days a year. It may seem little, but it is actually a very long time.That means that there would be on our phone for 552 hours in the whole year. Every day an average middle school child uses their phone for 9 hours every day. Can you believe it! People chat with the person who sits right next to them. Every time I am waiting to get dismissed by the teachers in the gym in the morning I see people going to ask someone sitting right next to them, but they decide to text them. Also, if people are talking then they don’t make eye contact with the other person. I think that is really weird to chat with someone who is sitting right next to them. Also, the language that people use is very weird and when you do your IRLA essays that language comes into action and then you will get a bad grade.  This makes them have an obsessive behavior with their phone and not also have a good language behavior. A phone can help you connect with people, but can also make you use bad language and have an obsessive behavior.

Who’s your personal genie? A phone. Your personal genie gives you anything that you want, for example, if you lost a prized possession in the dark and the only resource you have is your phone there is a light app on your phone. Another example is if you are doing your IRLA homework and you need to find the meaning of the word in your passage well your phone again will help you since you have the internet and you can search up the meaning of the word. Since our phone has so many uses sometimes if you forget your phone or lose it somewhere we suddenly become handicapped and not familiar with the other resources in the world. We become clueless on how to use other resources in the room. For example, if you lost something in the dark then you wouldn’t be able to function a torchlight and if needed help on your IRLA homework then you wouldn’t know how to locate the word in the dictionary. This is another reason why smartphones are both boons and curses.

Where is my mom? Isn’t she picking up my call or replying to my messages? She is 1 hour late to our get together! In this situation at any time, the Find Friends app will be perfectly useful. If your mom or relative gets stuck in traffic on the road you don’t want to annoy them with calls and text messages when they are in stress trying to get out, you can use the app to locate your parents. If you see that they are on the road then you don’t have to bother them while they are driving there is a law that you can’t talk on the phone while you are driving and you don’t want your parents getting caught by the police. Consequently, every 6 months there is some kind of new phone or update to the smart phone’s and they cost too much, but they are too tempting to stop yourself from buying it. It is irresistible. Updates to our phone make us get tempted by the updates and then makes us spend money on it for no reason even though there are new updates every single month.

In conclusion, smartphones are boons and curses, but there is a way to balance it out. You can spend some time on your phone so it doesn’t become an over obsessive behavior. Four of the six people that I surveyed have a phone.  Seventy-five percent of those people want a phone and only 25% might want a phone. Nearly sixty-seven percent of those people maybe think that phones are important and 33.3% think that phones are important. One student said that if they had a phone they would look at it for two hours! One student said thirty minutes, and one student said one hour. Five of the six people say that smartphones are good. One person of the six said that smartphones are bad. Four of these people say that a smartphone is key to their happiness. A student uses their phone as a resource for their homework everyday, ten minutes, and sometimes. Two students got their phone when they were 10 years old and 1 student got their phone when they were 11 years old. Four of the six people asked their parents for a phone before. These students have an iphone 5s, 6, and 8+. A smartphone is a boon and a curse because you can use it for connecting with people who live across the ocean, but you have to be careful about how much time you are spending with it. Another thing you should be aware of is that a phone can be your personal genie and it has everything that you need is on it, but if you lose it then you become handicapped and it feels like you lost something really valuable. Lastly, you might want to consider that if someone is stuck on the road the Find Friends app will help you to not disturb them if they are driving, but they last updates that they put out always intrigue people and they want to buy it so they spend too much money on those updates. Before buying anyone a phone you might want to consider these facts. One thing I have to say is that smartphones can be boons and curses all at once.