Jenna Wortham, the technology reporter for the New York Times writes about the serious problem that people are having nowadays, which is the fact that they cannot live without their smartphones even for a little time. She starts out the article by drawing the reader's attention through a personal experience that she had, in which she had to spend time in the pool without her smartphone. It was prohibited to enter the pool with any electronic device, and at first she was frustrated since she couldn't use her phone, but later she realized how good it is to spend some time just with her friends. She goes on by explaining how this situation should seem silly to those who do not use their smartphones all the time, but how for most of the people, it is hard since they feel JOMO, the feeling of missing out. Then she ends her article by saying that these people that cannot stay away from their phones are like adolescents, and that they need to use it less, and use it grow up and mature.
The purpose of this article by Wortham, is obviously to purchase people to spend more time with people and nature, than reading and looking what people are doing in social networks. She says it is impossible to notice the beauty of spending time with people and interacting with each other. Nowadays, it is not only the adolescents that are addicted to them, but the adults do not stay away from their phones. The writer thinks that this problem shouldn't be adults' problems, and this should be changed.
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