Do we control them…or are they controlling us?! There are so many smartphones available in the market right now that can almost do anything and everything; most popular ones are the iPhones, Blackberries and Droids. It used to be so simple, I still remember the days of my old brick like phone where all I can do with it is call, text, and more importantly play that addicting game “Snake”. Nowadays, these utility knife phones let us email, face time, play music, and plenty of other tech related activities. Sometimes it seems that instead of helping us be more productive, smart phones tend to take us away from our reality, removing us from the moment. Everywhere you look, you can see somebody with that glazed over look in their eye, staring at their phone swiping, pressing, and texting the time away. We seize the phone rather than seizing the day. Smartphones are a necessity today but they do exist as unintentional dangers to society, instead of the community growing through social communication, smart phones tend to remove and hinder the human element of interaction. Smartphones do get the job done when it comes to productivity and networking, it just happens that with all the new technology advancing, the form of interaction is reduced. Instead of taking away from it, we as a society should not let smart phones be the main focus of our daily life but as a peripheral, a way to enhance human interaction.
