NOTICIA 3 GISELA BOADA

Married to Their Smartphones (Oh, and to Each Other, Too)

This is the title of a recent news that I’ve found in the digital newspaper “The New York Times” the 4^th of November 2016. This news talks about how smartphones interfere in couples, so we can consider it’s a technology-social article.

This is the link where I’ve found it http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/style/smartphones-iphone-marriage-husbands-wives-technology.html?ref=nyt-es&_r

RESUM

This article talks about smartphones in our life, but most specific, about mobile phones and the couple.

It says that there is a direct influence between the use of smartphones and the stability of the couple. Recent studies demonstrate that using it in front your partner makes the other one think you are not interested in him and it can cause bad consequences in the relationship.  

Another interesting thing in the article it’s about the importance of talking with your partner before go sleeping, because this couples that do it instead of chatting or using their smartphones, are the ones who most hard relation have.

The article shows us an example of a situation where a couple argued because of the smartphone.

COMENTARI DE TEXT

Nowadays using Smartphone is something really comun, in fact…  not using it is what’s strange. So we have to learn how to use it and more important… WHEN.

Even the age, all couples communicate each other by using sms, facetime, whatsapp, Facebook Messenger… and it has its advantages and disadvantages….

In one hand, the use of smartphones makes couples be in touch at every time, and if your partner lives far from you, it’s fantastic being able to watch him in a screen. Another advantage is that these services are free, so you don’t have to pay for phoning him as people used to do some years ago… even if you are in another country, only with Wifi you can do what you want.

In the other hand, if you get used to be connected every day with the other person, you can end up obsessing. For example, if one day you don’t speak with him, you may think something had happened, even though it’s only because the other person had been doing other thinks and hasn’t got time to text you.. You don’t know, but always think the worse. It can be stressful….  In addition, people aren’t really conscientious about the big difference that there is between chatting with your partner with a screen or done it face a face… Couples need more live conversations.

To sum up, I want to do a reflection… There are couples that although they live far one from each other, they speak more face a face (with skype, facetime..) than other couples that are used to see each other every day… Because the last ones, when they arrived home, instead of talking with their partner, they decide to use the smartphone.

GLOSSARI

I haven’t found any word that could be confusing because I have used an easy vocabullary.