Each year a new generation of phone comes into existence, each upgraded phone with more features than the last. Smarter phones are making dumber people.

Downloadable applications made getting information and staying in touch fast and simple. Unfortunately, it also affects our brain use.

With so much information available at the touch of a button, it seems faster and easier to use the phone’s brain rather than our own.

From using a calculator for a simple math equation to using the GPS feature to drive down the road, smartphones have taken over our lives.

Between Googling and using your brain to remember facts from elementary school, using the internet usually seems faster. Thinking through problems, or using your memory to remember schedules or homework seems irresponsible now that there are convenient memo pads within your phone.

Smartphones have become just way too convenient and common. Using your own mind and smarts is losing importance.

Relying on technology to do work is now a theme in society. Before it gets any farther, people should take the time to spend a day without technology. Without relying on smartphones to do all the thinking for them, people may realize their potential for knowledge and wit.

Smartphones are drowning out personality and talent as people hide behind their laptops or phones instead of getting involved and being social out in the real world.

Convenience is not worth losing the great aspects of sociality, and mental sharpness. Challenge yourself to take a day, or even a week, without a smart phone doing all the thinking youself.