The use of the mobile phone is as antisocial as smoking. Smoking is banned in certain places so the mobile phone should be banned like smoking. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays mobile
phones
are everywhere, everybody has one and spends a large amount of time looking at its screen. It is argued by some that these electronic devices can have antisocial effects, as
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is the case of smoking, and
therefore
mobile
phones
should be prohibited in certain places as the policies
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the use of cigarettes. While I agree that
phones
can have a significant antisocial impact, it is
also
true that it has a social component as well, as well as smoking. Mobile
phones
have become part of our
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. We take our phone everywhere we want to go and we feel anxious if we forget it at home, or even worse
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if it gets lost or damaged. These devices can influence our
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behaviour
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behaviour
and people can even develop a considerable level of
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dependence
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. As I said previously, I totally support the idea that
phones
can be antisocial, as
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certain occasions individuals can pay more attention to them than to other people around them.
However
, in
this
day and age mobile
phones
also
contain an array of social applications that the public use to socialize online,
such
as WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat or Facebook. As regards
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smoking, some detractors (and I include myself) would say that it is an unsocial
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, due to the fact that there
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many people who cannot stand being close to
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smoker and,
as a result
, they would leave the room
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.
Nonetheless
,
this
activity could be
also
considered at a certain point as social. To illustrate
this
point of view, we can have a look
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the breaks workers use to take for smoking purposes, which are
also
a social situation, as they normally go with other colleagues and socialize. In conclusion, it is no doubt true that
phones
can be as unsocial as smoking in certain situations, but I do not think
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should be banned as
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tobacco
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, owing to
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social potential and
its
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importantace
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importance
in everyone's
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lifes
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lives
life
.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • antisocial
  • social interactions
  • negative impacts
  • banning
  • regulated
  • completely banned
  • education
  • awareness campaigns
  • responsible
  • mobile phone use
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