How is the Use of Smartphones Affecting Professional Interactions? A huge part of people’s everyday lives is the use of smartphones. Hundreds of texts can be sent out from a single person every day. If every person in the United States sent out one text in a day that would be well over 300 million texts sent in one day. Now, how is this affecting a heavy phone user’s face to face interactions? The main question here is that of teens. This question is asked mostly of teens. The average teenager spends nine hours a day on social media a day. The problem with this is that they are spending more time communicating through social media and through text rather than face to face, or even over the phone. The age group of 18-24 send on average 2,022
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Texting is certainly affecting this. Teenagers are tending to shorten words down into something shorter for some reason, maybe to take less time to type the message. Words that fit into this category are “you” shortened down into “u”. Another one is “be” shortened down into just “b”. In some cases people use numbers instead of typing out a full word. An example of this is “to”. Some people, mostly teenagers, use “2” instead of “to” or “too”. Also, instead of typing out a full word such as “hate”, some people will use an “8” to finish the word “h8”. Not only is this annoying, it is terribly incorrect. If someone were to send an email to a boss or potential employer with the use of any of this slang or misspellings of common words, they might be fired and/or never …show more content…
With kids using their phones in class. If someone is using their phone in class, it is really hard to pay attention to what the instructor is saying and teaching. Without paying attention in class, it is hard for a student to get the education they need to be sure that their grammar and spelling is all that it could be. Fortunately for teenagers, teachers are cracking down on phones being used in class so the students are forced to pay attention in class rather than being focused on their phones. Some professors are even telling their students that their grades will be lowered if caught using their phones at inappropriate times during class. This is another solution to the pandemic that is
Texting is certainly affecting this. Teenagers are tending to shorten words down into something shorter for some reason, maybe to take less time to type the message. Words that fit into this category are “you” shortened down into “u”. Another one is “be” shortened down into just “b”. In some cases people use numbers instead of typing out a full word. An example of this is “to”. Some people, mostly teenagers, use “2” instead of “to” or “too”. Also, instead of typing out a full word such as “hate”, some people will use an “8” to finish the word “h8”. Not only is this annoying, it is terribly incorrect. If someone were to send an email to a boss or potential employer with the use of any of this slang or misspellings of common words, they might be fired and/or never …show more content…
With kids using their phones in class. If someone is using their phone in class, it is really hard to pay attention to what the instructor is saying and teaching. Without paying attention in class, it is hard for a student to get the education they need to be sure that their grammar and spelling is all that it could be. Fortunately for teenagers, teachers are cracking down on phones being used in class so the students are forced to pay attention in class rather than being focused on their phones. Some professors are even telling their students that their grades will be lowered if caught using their phones at inappropriate times during class. This is another solution to the pandemic that is