Is cell phone usage beneficial or a hindrance to our culture? Cell phones were meant to be used in a way to maintain contact with others while on the road, in different cities, states, or even in different countries, and of course, in emergency situations. But that is not the case in today's culture. In today's culture, it seems that everyone has a cell phone and are constantly on them, regardless if the call is important or not. If that is not all, there are numerous apps, games, music, movies, ebooks, selfies, texts, sexts, twitters, and instagrams all done on the cells. It seems to me, even though that cell phones are a breakthrough in technology, we are forgetting the etiquette of face to face conversations with people and even with our
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I can understand family emergencies occurring to which it is necessary to be on the cell but not for every time one of their friends call just to shoot the breeze, knowing full well that the person that they are calling are at work and both are interfering with work time to converse with them, knowing you are taking away productivity from work and distracting your co-workers from their jobs. It is just bad manners and shows disrespect to those you work with. There is a time and a place for everything and using cells should be no exception to the rule. People are getting too dependent on this kind of technology. New technology has the capacity to tear all of us apart as it brings some of us together. (Kottak p30) Schools have a hard time to keep students from being on their cells, let alone keeping them from bringing them to class or schools in the first place. Both kids and parents cry out that it is the only way they can get through to each other without going through another person, meaning the school office relaying the message to the child from the parent. People tend to forget that before cell phones came along, we managed without them. It has gotten to the point where even kindergartners have cell phones, I cannot fathom why a kindergartner needs a cell at that age. Cell phones are not substitutes for parents supervision, which many parents use to check on their children when they are outside playing or given as a distraction when the child is being fussy or cranky while in lines at
I can understand family emergencies occurring to which it is necessary to be on the cell but not for every time one of their friends call just to shoot the breeze, knowing full well that the person that they are calling are at work and both are interfering with work time to converse with them, knowing you are taking away productivity from work and distracting your co-workers from their jobs. It is just bad manners and shows disrespect to those you work with. There is a time and a place for everything and using cells should be no exception to the rule. People are getting too dependent on this kind of technology. New technology has the capacity to tear all of us apart as it brings some of us together. (Kottak p30) Schools have a hard time to keep students from being on their cells, let alone keeping them from bringing them to class or schools in the first place. Both kids and parents cry out that it is the only way they can get through to each other without going through another person, meaning the school office relaying the message to the child from the parent. People tend to forget that before cell phones came along, we managed without them. It has gotten to the point where even kindergartners have cell phones, I cannot fathom why a kindergartner needs a cell at that age. Cell phones are not substitutes for parents supervision, which many parents use to check on their children when they are outside playing or given as a distraction when the child is being fussy or cranky while in lines at