Cell Phones: Social Advantage or Disadvantage?

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When I was fifteen I received my first cell phone from my parents for my birthday. Little did I know my life would soon revolve around this little piece of plastic and become a part of my daily life. My first phone was small and simple with call and text features along with the ability to play music. I was so happy to finally have what everyone was fantasizing over. Over the years I have upgraded from one phone to the next ending up with the smartest phone you can come by. My phone now not only does what my first phone did but you can play games, take pictures from the front and the back of the screen, and have an assortment of apps ranging from social networking to photo editing to unlocking your car from across the globe. How have these advancements of cell phones come so quickly? It is with these vast advancements that make me begin to question whether or not phones are benefitting society as a whole. The reason why I question the value of cell phones is that they are becoming the way of communicating to others rather than face to face encounters. Instead of saying something verbally it is rather said in text, fast and to the point. According to Jeff Forster, a health care worker and editor of Medical Economics and author of (insert here), “people who talk on cell phones in public are people who have a great need to be seen talking on cell phones in public” (1). Cell phones are not only a way of communication but a source of appearance and class. Cell phones do have benefits in Forster’s eyes however, such as being a tool of replacing a global positioning system and a pager for doctors. Times have changed to revolve around cell phones and cell phones have taken over the job of many devices all put together in one system. Kaila Schlimm, a staff writer of East Lake High school, knows first-hand the effects of cell phones being born into the generation that are

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