This document discusses the negative effects that smartphones can have on people's lives and health. It suggests that people are becoming overly dependent on their smartphones and that this constant phone use is turning people into "zombies." Some of the negative impacts mentioned include social isolation, lack of attention to the real world, the spread of germs, potential links to cancer and depression, distraction from tasks, and dangers of texting while driving. The document encourages people to try leaving their phone in a drawer for a week to experience the benefits of less phone use.

1. Has technology turned
us into Zombies?
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By Richard Coyne
Sunday, May 19, 13
Are you still worried about robots taking over earth or a zombie apocalypse? Well it’s too late.

2. Life is better seen through your
eyes instead of a phone.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Your smartphone will eventually kill you whether you like it
or not.

3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanl/4382372758/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Paris to Tokyo with two clicks on
your phone!
Sunday, May 19, 13
We are able to do anything now a days with smartphones like see the worlds most beautiful places without leaving the couch.

4. It’s been one minute since I
checked my Facebook...lets check
it again.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Most if not all of us including myself are guilty of repeatedly checking our Facebook or some other social media website like we check our fridge expecting something new
to show up in the last few minutes but come on we have better things we could be doing with our lives than this like enjoying life.

5. Twitter: Sitting on
stairs with
friends, such a
blast!
Twitter: Having a blast
with my friends!
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Now at parties and hanging out with friends or family give your thumbs a break and look around to see everyone on their phone instead of actually of socializing.

6. Smartphones are getting us
sick!
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Smartphones are getting us sick.

7. This phone tastes a tad dirty.
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According to a report done by the Atlantic Wire “Your smartphone is covered in microscopic pieces of fecal matter” (Estes, 2012).

8. Where have your fingers
been?
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Think about it your fingers touch so many things most that are probably not sanitized and then you are touching your phone and texting and than that phone that hand
your dirty fingers all over it is on your face and right by your mouth.

9. Cell phones give off radiation and some
say they can cause brain cancer.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
It’s a constant dispute whether or not cell phones are linked to brain cancer but it’s a possibility.

10. My phone goes
where I go.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
In our face paced lives with technology advanced more then we could ever imagine we are now taking our phones everywhere with us.

11. Smartphones cause depression.
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Smartphones are causing depression.

12. I’ll just talk to them on
Facebook instead of going out
tonight.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
According to Gary Cooper a well-respected psychologist he states "staring at screens constantly takes you away from people and gives you a passive outlet where you
don’t have to interact with the world or face your problems” (Haywood, 2011).

13. I’ll just stay in tonight and take a nap.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Being addicted to your cell phone is a real problem.

14. Deal with it tomorrow I guess...
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Having our smartphone on us all the time distracts us from getting things we need done or dealing with something that is stressful so we just put it off.

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigtallguy/139143816/sizes/o/in/photostream/
Texting while driving is keeping
body shops in business.
Sunday, May 19, 13
According to the National Safety Council 1.6 million car accidents are caused by texting while driving and make up for 25% of all car accidents.

16. Texting just as
dangerous as
driving drunk.
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Texting is if not more dangerous as driving drunk.

17. Road: My eyes are up here!
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Texting causes your eyes to not be on the road but on the screen of your phone

18. BRAINS!!!
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Yes smartphones are amazing pieces of technology and very useful and great for many things but we are all turning into walking zombies from being so attached to them.

19. Lets change it up!
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Open your dresser where you put your socks and put the phone their for a whole week to see how much more work you get done and how much happier you are
without it.

20. Open your eyes!
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Sunday, May 19, 13
Is your phone still in your hand? If not welcome to the first day of the rest of your life.