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Ryan Ramos Dr. J  http://www.certmag.com/read. php?in=3840 The article I found came up when I was trying to find some research about how convenient it is to access the internet, pretty much wherever you go. I thought about why people choose to you the internet and the first thing that came to mind was because it’s easy to used and access; iphones and other smart phones are basically computers that fit in the palm of your hand. In this article a man named John Grohol argues that internet involvement strengthens interpersonal connections. I agree because talking to family or a friend is more convenient over an email than actually writing them a letter or talking on the phone. It is also cheaper because there is no cost except time. Here is a quotation I found and liked a lot, “ technology can follow people everywhere they go, and may invade face time.” I laughed when I read this because not even three weeks ago I was having a conversation with a friend and he stopped mid sentence due to a text and then he proceeded to text back and then finish his sentence. Personally I don’t text but damn that was a trip to witness. This is something to ponder upon for a minute, “Because time is not infinite, there will be trade-offs. The more time I spend on the computer, the less time I have for friends and family.” It’s true yet we do it constantly and we don’t really realize how much time we actually spend on the internet, iphones, or other mobile smart phones.

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 * 1) The text is about the iphone’s effects on memory, and society. Matt Stewart, a writer, novelist, and marketer says iphones and other smart phones are a societal movement, which I agree with partly because I used my Black Berry to find this article. Look around, everyone is constantly on their phones whether they’re texting looking up movie times, trying to get directions, or playing games. One of his main points is that these smart phones kill our memory or the want to memorize things. Why try to remember something when you can have the iphone do it for you? The iphone can answer all your questions. He also says that the iphones are common and when we use them, it “feels as natural as blowing your nose.” He himself has an iphone, which he uses daily, “without the iphone I immediately become less current, and more frequently bored, and relatively incommunicado, a social outcast, the equivalent of running with a parachute,” he says. “They’re reshaping how we remember, how we interact, how we filter information, how we live.” It’s amazing to think such a small device that fits in the palm of your hand can change the way we live our lives.
 * 2) I want to know statistics, how many people have smart phones, how many hours are spent on them a week, what people use them for? Its interesting how we are all victims of these smart phones and they change our lives dramatically yet we don’t care or even notice. Essentially we are addicts. What would happen if all smart phones were destroyed? What would we do?