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Teens Should Be Banned From Smartphones In the movie WALL-E, everyone had been so consumed by technology that they rode around on floating chairs sipping slushies and watching screens. When someone fell out of their chair, robots would come help them and all the other chairs would be detoured around them. As glued to screens as teens are now, it seems at least a bit likely that humanity could end up like that. they think that they need their devices all the time, so when issues occur, they will probably look for a way around it, like riding in chairs with a screen mounted at just the right level so the neck does not have to be bent. Avoiding a world like in WALL-E is not the only reason why teens should have limited smartphone use. People under the age of 18 should be banned from smartphones because …show more content…

The opposition claims that teens under the age of 18 need a smartphone so that they can communicate with their parents about various things(Crowe). However, before smartphones were ever made, people used flip phones to communicate with each other on the go, and they are still available today. Flip phones have limited apps and some can access the web, but with such a small screen who would want to? Also, unless they are out stranded in the middle of nowhere, there is a good chance that there is some sort of phone they can use somewhere near by. The opposition also claims that that teens need smartphones so that they can do their homework anywhere(Crowe). However, most of the tools that a smartphone possesses are available as individual things, such as a calculator, paper, or book. While these items may be harder to carry with you, they only have one purpose and cannot distract a teen for as long as a smartphone would. Teens can clearly go through day to day activities without their

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