Jan 17 2009
Could you live without your cell phone?
Could you live without your cell phone? You know like back in the day when people didn’t have it glued to their ear 24/7. Could you live without texting someone every minute of every hour of every day??? I was watching the news a couple of days ago and they had a story on about a girl who had sent thousands of text messages that month. It averaged out to 75 texts per hour. That is more than one per minute. That is insanity. This girl would have time to do nothing else except text all day. I guess I am getting old, but I don’t get the allure of this type of communication. I understand if you are in a crowd or some setting where you wouldn’t want all to hear your convo, but otherwise, I don’t get it. I would rather pick up the phone and call a person. Plus, it is dangerous, even more so than talking while driving as it takes the eyes off the task at hand. Remember the horrible train wreck in California I believe, a few months ago. Texting was the cause. My students at school swear they can text without looking, but I still think it is crazy. Also, it is destroying their grammar and spelling. I fight the cell phone issue daily in school. These kids can’t be away from their phone for a minute. They are addicted, and their parents and adults in their lives don’t respect boundaries either as they are calling and texting them non stop while their child is at school. I keep hoping this will phase out as most fads do, and the phone will go back to being just an important tool in their world and not an extension of their hand. I also heard on the news a few days ago how there was chip being added to car keys in which you could program your child’s phone number in, and while the ignition was running it would disable their phones so they couldn’t text or talk while driving. I want one which will disable it in the schools. Serena
