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Position Paper 1

            Imagine being so addicted to something that you must use it as soon as you wake up, as well as right before you go to sleep, if it was not a factor in keeping you awake. Not to mention, you have to use it so often throughout the day, that if you do not, you feel like you might go crazy. Well, that is how most of us are with our phones, me included. That is not an easy thing to admit that I am so dependent on a rectangle, but with how technology has evolved, it is hard not to be. Having the ability to get answers to practically any question, issue, or need within seconds just at your fingertips makes the addictive usage of phones seem justified. Not only the ability to access information makes phones to useful. Phones can connect people who are states, countries, and even continents apart, almost instantaneously. Justifying an addiction seems like a way to seemingly deny the fact that it exists, but technology controls practically everything...