1. Write a summary of text 1 “You Probably Use Your Smartphone Way More Than You Think” in about 150 words. The text is about how much we actually use our smartphones and how it will, can or do affects us. In the text you find out that young adult actually uses their smartphones twice as much as they estimate they do. By research from British psychologists, we found out that we actually use our smartphones one-third of our waking hours, (that’s 5 hours). Dr. Richard House, a British psychologist agreed that there is a lack of awareness around technology usage. In the text you read about a test on how much we’re using the phones and how it’s affecting in our daily lives. It shows that there wasn’t a correlation between how much the participant’s estimated to how much it actually was, it shows that the participants were checking their phones 85 times a day which was double as what they had estimated. State University also told in an email that the devices can have an impact in our brains. 2. Give an outline of the various attitudes to the use of smartphones in texts 2 and 3. Text 2 various attitudes: I felt cut off, I worried that my work would suffer, I felt more anxious than relieved, I started interacting more with people IRL, My mind was free to wander again, Text 3 various attitudes: A magical tool that help us to make connections with the world, Stop telling me to put my phone away, Making me feel like an imbecile for adoring my technology, So much more culturally aware, This is an absurd idea, Please get off my case, Stop telling me to get off my phone,
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