People who prefer cell phones often have very different lifestyles than people who prefer landlines. As you decide whether to switch to a cell, ask yourself: Do you want to be in the phone book? If so, you’ll need a landline. Do you want to be easy to reach? Many people prefer to use cell phones because it allows them to be available to family and clients even when they’re traveling.
Distracted Driving: Technology has become an obsession among many Americans. Over the years cell phones have gone from a business necessity, to a personal necessity. As a result of cell phone dependence and the need for a person to always be accessible, Americans continuously endanger themselves and others by texting while driving. The Vermont texting while driving law is widely ignored because it is severely flawed. Texting while driving has been forbidden in Vermont since July 2010.
Texting is ruining social skills, which are important to building personal relationships, because there is no body language to show any emotion. This is because excessive texting is ruining people’s ability to communicate effectively. Some people are afraid of real intimate conversations and hide their true feelings behind a cell phone or computer. Texting via cell phones or chatting via a computer does not show a person’s emotions since one cannot determine whether the other one is happy or sad. Through text messaging via cell phones and social networks, people can become more individualized, distant, afraid, and indifferent.
People would rather text than have a phone conversation because it makes them feel awkward. Also, texting is dangerous while driving because it can destroy bonds by killing people. Video games are also another source of social media. People who play video games all day long do not realize it can destroy their
Besides every one has to have a phone because many bad things have happened lately people really need to communicate. I especially think that it doesn’t matter how old are you can use your phone. In fact last time that I check our parent are paying for our phones. They should let our parents decide in this case and give their opinions. Also there are some good reason why this law should be aloud.
(51) | I can’t really say how this affects me. It makes me upset to an extent, because I’m a social person. I like talking to people, meeting people, and I would rather it be face-to-face. But even when I’m at the mall, 80% of the people there are on their phones. I wish we could all just sit down for a few minutes each day without any technology and see that the world wouldn’t end without it.
Recently I started to work at Texas Roadhouse and constantly notice couples on their phones rather then interacting with each other. Even overheard a woman ask her partner why he wasn’t responding to her text. Have you gone through a dinner date without checking your phone? People make it a priority to constantly check Facebook status or messages that they seem to forget about the person next to them. Technology has made a large number of us rude and oblivious to our surroundings.
Secondly, Ingram argues that hearing other people talking on mobile phones is very annoying due to “it breaks the basic communication model”. Thirdly, he points out that people interrupt a face-to-face conversation to answer their mobile phones. Another problem he indicates occurs among professional people. There is not clear limit between “work at work and work at home”. Finally, Ingram claims that because of the speed of communication requirement in today’s world, young people have dificulty to keep concentrate.
Technology is a really over-powering thing and a growing epidemic and I feel that it's really taking a tole on young people but at the same time advancing the communication between us. To know that teens are using their phones on average 60 times a day is quiete saddening because there are so many other things you can be doing, such as doing home work, studying and spending time with family.
When Siegler tells about going out to eat with his mom and having to check his phone under the table, it contradicts the whole point the rest of the article seems to make, Siegler admits that “cell phone usage is frowned upon in restaurants for a good reason, it can be annoying”. But as he boldly explains later in the article “What’s annoying to me isn’t someone