Man and smartphonesNowadays practically everyone owns a smartphone. We live in a world full of electronics on which we depend enormously. Computers, mobile phones and other types of electronic devices have their roots in our daily life and have become one of the most important parts of it. When you look around, wherever you go, most people stare at a small screen. We don't pay attention to where we are and we don't notice where we exist in the world. It is turning us into creatures living inside our isolated devices, detached from each other and the physical world, relating only to our electronic devices and self-image. While technology brings great benefits to our lives, it can go a little too far, it is gradually taking over our social lives and creeping into our relationships and daily activities. Smartphones today allow us to communicate with our loved ones with the tip of our fingers, but doing so through a small screen can easily lead to misunderstandings, since not seeing their facial expressions, body language and not hearing their intonation can in fact create confusion, unlike what happens with our loved ones. communicate face to face. Texting can also ruin spoken conversation and can be the reason for losing conversational etiquette, which is becoming a lost art as people start taking their smartphones out of their pockets in the middle of a conversation with another person just to check the reason for their phone. buzzed, which can offend many people and is clearly rude and inconsiderate towards the speaker. We've gotten to the point where we prioritize our phones over the people right in front of us. Texting in class is a serious problem that most professors and fellow students suffer from. When a student ci... middle of paper ...... last reminder to check social media. Some might call paying attention between multiple things "multi-tasking," but multi-tasking is nothing more than a myth. “People can't multitask very well, and when they say they can, they're deluding themselves,” said MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller. And, he said, "As you switch from one task to another, you think you're paying attention to everything around you at the same time. But you're actually switching from one to the other very quickly." Miller also pointed out that one reason the change occurs is that similar tasks compete to use the same part of the brain. "You can't concentrate on one while doing the other. This is because of what's called interference between the two tasks," Miller said. It is proven that when multitasking we lose 10 points of our IQ and this negatively affects even 40% of efficiency. of what we are doing