As the iPhone turns 10, we now know the technology that was supposed to bring us all together has isolated us instead. Smartphones now seem indispensable. They connect us to the internet, give us directions, allow us to fire off texts and much more. Yet research has shown that this convenience may be coming at a cost.
Source: The Conversation, June 26, 2017.
Smartphones are a tool, and like most tools, they can be used in positive ways or negative ones. In moderation, smartphones are a convenient – even crucial – technology. Yet a different picture has emerged over the past decade: Interacting with people face-to-face usually makes us happy. Electronic communication often doesn’t.
INSIGHTS: This is the new normal. Instead of calling someone, you text them. Instead of getting together for dinner with friends to tell them about your recent vacation, you post the pictures to Facebook. It’s convenient, but it cuts out face-to-face interactions that, as social animals, we crave.