In "Are Smart Phones Really Destroying the Adolescent Brain?" Published in Scientific American, Carlin Flora concludes that how cellphones affect a teen and their brain depends on many factors that are relevant to the teen, such as how they use it, what they aren't doing and the social context in which a smartphone is used. Flora alludes to 3 main ideas when addressing her thesis. Her first argument is that the issue of how cellphones affect teens is a very complex world and is hard to research due to the variability among the use of their cellphones. Second, Flora believes that the use of social media doesn’t negatively affect a teen and how they interact in the real world. On social media, a teen typically interacts with the people that they