Blog Post #1:Effects of cell phones in our social life.

  
      

Expressing yourselves are ways to tell a person on how you feel; however, there are instances that “The truth hurts”. Face it; because that’s how the world goes, there are ups and downs in life. Now, the insight is that whenever we express ourselves, it can be either through words or texts because that is how communication works. But the question is; Are they both the same? The truth is expressing yourselves in words is hard because there are instances that you may feel nervous, an example of this would be my experience in school. I have a classmate and friends; whenever, they want to say “Hi” to their crushes it seems to be so hard and complex, but if you ask them to SMS their crush they would be happy to do it. On the other hand, I learned from my research writing teacher that, the reason why texting to your crush is considered obnoxious because “words do not shake.” Meaning there are NO EMOTIONS to the text that you want to deliver to your receiver and vice versa. So in correlation to my topic, I would want to share with you guys why cell phones changes our emotions.a

There was a study by Andrew K. Przybylski and Netta Weinstein. The study shows how cell phones can affect our social life. Their study goes like this. 

Przybylski and Weinstein asked pairs of strangers to discuss a moderately intimate topic (an interesting event that had occurred to them within the last month) for 10 minutes.  The strangers left their own belongings in a waiting area and proceeded to a private booth.  Within the booth, they found two chairs facing each other and, a few feet away, out of their direct line of vision, there was a desk that held a book and one other item.  Unbeknownst to the pair, the key difference in their interactions would be the second item on the desk.  Some pairs engaged in their discussion with a nondescript cell phone nearby, whereas other pairs conversed while a pocket notebook lay nearby.  After they finished the discussion, each of the strangers completed questionnaires about the relationship quality (connectedness) and feelings of closeness they had experienced.  The pairs who chatted in the presence of the cell phone reported lower relationship quality and less closeness.

This experiments clearly explain everything about how cellphones can affect our social health. Przybylski and Weinstein said that. "The presence of the cell phone had no effect on relationship quality, trust, and empathy, but only if the pair discussed the casual topic.  In contrast, there were significant differences if the topic was meaningful." So for me,  people who usually uses their mobile phones to build relationships are just wasting their time. Not only their time but also their social life. They will probably have problems in the future if they are just building their relations ships through technology. 

I will cast more research about this topic and share to you my knowledge. I hope this will help you to understand the disadvantage of using cell phones. Thank you and God bless.