Assignment Help

Your assignment is to prepare and submit a paper on cell phones-connecting us individually but disconnecting socially. It did not necessarily have to look good or sleek and neither was Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in a mobile phone a problem. However, with the passage of time all has changed. Humans, prone to fidgeting around with everything around them, manage to introduce new mobile phones with better looks, better features, and higher price tags every day. It was the youth that managed to change the way in which mobile phones were looked at. They learned that mobile phones could be used as a cheap and efficient plus a quick way to establish contact with others. The idea suddenly seemed to take off.

&nbsp.In order to understand the effect of the mobile phones and their determinant impact on the aspects of daily life along with interaction with not only others but parents, Kerry Devitt and Debi Roker in their article in the Journal of Children and Society talk about a study conducted. In that study, the children and parents were put in separate groups. The children in their interviews remarked that it was easier to talk to their friends with the help of a simple text, and not so much with respect to their parents. Children, on the other hand, find that mobile phones make them a lot more vulnerable to mugging and theft than when they would not have a cell phone but the idea of not having a mobile phone is too much of a sacrifice (Devitt & Roker, 2009).

&nbsp.Parents find that their children, when they have a mobile phone, are more prone to ignore whatever is around them. They tend to ignore family and spend time texting or chatting with their friends, which tends to cut them off from society. Another major issue that the parents find themselves to be dealing with is the increasing level of secrecy that youths render when they have a mobile phone in hand.

&nbsp.The above table shows how the interaction between children and parents becomes limited due to mobile phones. This evidence is not sufficient enough to show that the relationship between parents and their children is failing.