Cell Phone Benefit or Detriment

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Samantha Laudick Dr. Cynthia Nitz Ris English Composition 289 10 January 2011 Always Connected a Benefit or Detriment Cell phones have been all the rage for the past 15 years. It used to be that texting wasn’t even an option and who would have ever guessed access to the internet could be reached whenever and wherever as long as you have your phone at all times. Most owners of cell phones do have their phones with them every hour of every day but are phones helping or hindering in today’s society. While the two pieces of writing show a discrepancy within concerns, the proposal made by both emphasize rise in invulnerability when in reality more precautions should be made when dealing with cell phones. The research article Call If You Have Trouble by Jack Nasar, Peter Hecht and Richard Wener utilize studies taken from OSU undergrads. The surveys illustrate feelings and actions associated with cell phone use. The research indicates the sense of safety provided by a cell phone urges risk-taking behaviors and subsequently generates more of a chance for victimization. The study supports the argument “Carrying a mobile phone may cause the user to feel safer. That sense of safety, in turn, might lead to riskier behavior” (Nasar, Hecht and Wener, 2). Mobile phones often provide users with a sense of being untouchable. This is the thought that talking on the device when walking alone will prevent anyone from approaching. “On the evening of 22 November 2003 college student Dru Sjodin was in a mall parking lot talking on her mobile phone with her boyfriend, when she said something and the phone went silent. Her body was found five months later. She had been abducted from that parking lot, raped and murdered” (Nasar, Hecht, and Wener, 1). Talking and texting on cell phones kills a user’s full focus on anything else causing them to become less aware of
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