Keeping that in mind, some believe that phones can be used to better students educational experience. Phones can be used to look up any information needed to be found, but is that the purpose of a computer? Some may say that they use their cell phone to type all of their papers. That may be true, but it is not very practical. The screen on a phone is five inches diagonally for the biggest phones that are available today. It would put great strain on the eyes to have to look at that small screen and try to type a paper. Whereas when people use a computer, they can arrange their work to where they can see the whole page they are typing on. Typing on a computer will also put less strain on the eyes to allow for longer typing sessions and getting more work done quicker. In this day in age, most schools have a computer lab; some schools even hand out personal computers for the student to use for the entire year. Therefore, there is no reason that a student would need to use his or her cell phone during the school day.
One of the other drawbacks of having more people with phones is that it is limiting the amount of interpersonal relationships. More and more people are likely to text someone rather than go to that person's house, knock on their door, and talk to them. This can cause a person to not have many friends or deep relationships with other people. In Isiklar Abdullah’s article, he claims that “Mobile phone use has corruptive results such as loneliness” (5). Someone could have ten thousand friends on Facebook, but how well do they know those people? Would that person ever go hang out with the people that they friend on social media? Apart from a few of the closest friends, the answer is typically no. It could also be that they might not even know the people they are friends with on these sites. Relationships are more personal when they are face-to-face. It is not possible to see the emotion on someone's face through a text message. Rae Hoffman gives examples of this in his article "Increasing Dependence on Online Communication Helps Relationships." Hoffman writes about his personal experience with cell phones and explains that they hurt relationships by saying, “That said, I'd be lying if I said there hadn't been times that the BlackBerry has alienated people” (Hoffman 15). When he says this, he is helping demonstrate that when people spend too much time with their faces buried in their phones they miss out on having relationships with the people that are around them. It has come to the point that it is common to see to people eating together at a restaurant, but they are both on their phones and not talking to each other. With the amount of cell phones being used increasing every year, this trend will only continue to grow and the problems will continue to get worse.