August 27, 2014
Dear Dr. Wall,
Technology is the practical application of science to commerce or industry. It plays an important role in people's lives through home, school, medical, and business uses. Smartphones have become more and more necessary to people's life demands. A smartphone is a mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a feature phone. It affects on people, relationships and society in both good and bad ways. However some people have allowed the phone to overtake their lives. I interviewed two of my class mates, as well as my daughter on their uses of their smartphones. And this is the information I have gathered.
Classmate #1 Bobbi states that she spends eight hours a day on the phone. …show more content…
Her primary usage is talking, texting, and internet which is what she does the most. The GPS app particularly very useful. Although sometimes gets her into trouble at work. She said if she lost her phone she would miss the games.
Classmate #2 Tashanta states that she spends about nineteen hours on her phone. She checks it every morning around 6 A.M. and checks it before going to bed around 3 A.M. Her primary use is texting, Facebook, phone calls and taking pictures with Facebook taking up most of the time.
Her GPS app and playing games take up most of the time. As with Bobbi using the phone at work gets her in trouble most of the time.
Last was my daughter Safra who is on the back side of thirty, who kind of grew up with the tech age from the Commodore 64 to the smartphone. Which I think is glued to her hand, she never seems to put her phone down. She says that she couldn’t function without it. She is constantly checking her phone, which she said is