Shut Down Your Screen Analysis
“Shut Down Your Screen Week” could be very beneficial for many reasons. Computers and cell phones may provide you with quick and useful information, but on a computer and cell phone people are scatterbrained, computers and cell phones create attention problems, computers and cell phones change how people think and behave towards other people. Computers and cell phones can make people scatterbrained because they always have different things popping up at once. In the article, “Is Google making us Stupid?” it states, “If we’re distracted, we understand less, remember less and learn less.” That is that with everything popping up, people think only on what's popping and not on what they were originally thinking. The more we concentrate and focus, the better we think and learn. For humans to be more intelligent, they have to go more in depth with thinking. If you were distracted, would you learn? Computers and cell phones can create attention problems by making you think of so many things at once, your brain gets used to it and you can't focus.The article, “Attached to Technology” states, “ When she's on it, you can holler her name all day and she won't hear.” Saying that her brain is used to
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In the article, “ Social Media as Community”, says, “ A number of studies, including my own and those of Matthew Brashears a sociologist at Cornell have found that Americans have fewer intimate relationships today than 20 years ago.” That sentence is saying that people are afraid to talk to other people in person because there is so much social media, you make one wrong move and it is there forever. Everyone can see it and everyone can comment or share it. Computers and cell phones change the way not only you think of others, but of yourself too. People would rather be able to say it wasn't them texting or messaging another person instead of being made fun
In the article, “ Social Media as Community”, says, “ A number of studies, including my own and those of Matthew Brashears a sociologist at Cornell have found that Americans have fewer intimate relationships today than 20 years ago.” That sentence is saying that people are afraid to talk to other people in person because there is so much social media, you make one wrong move and it is there forever. Everyone can see it and everyone can comment or share it. Computers and cell phones change the way not only you think of others, but of yourself too. People would rather be able to say it wasn't them texting or messaging another person instead of being made fun