Geoffrey Fowler's "Texting While Walking Isn't Funny Anymore" is about how people around the world are getting hurt while using there phones and how addictive cellphones are. People are walking into fountains, constructuion sites, and in front of cars because they are texting while walking. Statistics shows every year that people are being hurt and smartphone inventors think they have a solution. According to the picture in the article china has already taken action fining people for texting and walking and other coutries might follow there lead. Texting while walkimg has become a worldwide thing and since 2006 emergency visits have tripled. Texting while walking has become a big eye opener and soon it would be illegal to text in walk in certain states. Thesis: " cellphones have taken away something from us too." Cellphones have taken away how people communicate, children dont go outside to play anymore, and humans have a short attention span when they are using cellphones. Cellphones have made our lives easier and …show more content…
Phones have games, social media , and people love to take pictures with them. Every one or two minutes someone is grabbing there phone because they are addictive. No one pays attention when they are looking into these cellphones and it's leading up to injuries. Fowler stated in the article, " the risk of people getting hurt while texting and walking has rising since 2006." Pedestrians have broken bones and some even lost their lives because they were not paying attention to their surroundings while looking into their phones. Although this maybe true, smartphone inventors are working on a device that would stop usage of phones when pedestrians are approaching intersections. Even if this could stop some people from getting injured pedestrians are still hurting themselves because their attention span becomes limited when they are looking into their