Summary: The Case For Constant Connectivity

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October 15, 2014
A Critique of "Who Says Smartphone Addiction is a Bad Thing? The Case for Constant Connectivity" In the article "The Case for Constant Connectivity," featured on Toronto Life, the author Jesse Brown argues that smarts phone addictions support a sense of an evolutionary human progress that has contributed to an individual's desire to be easily united along with one's surroundings. I agree that cell phones provide accessibility and potential to assist individuals in several aspects of life, but not to the certain extent as Brown had suggested. I do not believe that his argument was sound. In the article, Jesse Brown highlights the benefits that a smart phone brings and their triumphs over existing drawbacks. Brown
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He defends his position through his personal divulgences that include participating in intellectually stimulating arguments with dozens of people who would not have had the opportunity to meet, through social networking. Other activities smart phones deliver include being up to date with the news, making jobs easier and assisting with the entertainment of children. Brown also acknowledges the misleading concept of addiction people label on one's dependency, for the need of digital connectivity is an aspect of living in a modern world. He disagrees with the concept of "nomophobia," which is treated at California’s Morningside addiction recovery centre. He does not believe in a smart phone addiction because users do not die from its absence, in contrast with heroin addicts who severely suffer from withdrawal symptoms. The devices simply make life easier, enabling people to reach their potentials, capability and productivities. Brown also acknowledges that the illustration of mobile devices as insidious entities that detriments human purity draw …show more content…
Brown uses his personal experience of utilizing his time to engage in intellectually stimulating debates with fascinating people on Twitter and being updated with the news and hence generalizes the devices as channels of capability, productivity and potential. Realistically, not everyone uses their mobile phones as a main source of worldly issues. A significant portion of smart phone users tend to focus solely on social media as a faint means of entertainment unrelated to surrounding political issues. Brown associates households with arbitrary rules in regards to mobile device usage as a failing system that only feeds feelings of negativity and unpleasantness. He assumes that all attempts to decrease phone usage in order to focus on other crucial aspects of life, such as the strengthening in intimacy in relationships, has only caused more stress onto the individuals. This is an oversimplification for there have been countless incidents of success through the voluntary efforts in decreasing mobile device usage which include the withdrawal from social media. There are people who experienced positive results and feel connected to an entire world they were so utterly out of touch with before. Analyzed this way, this argument is not