Evolution of Cell Phones and Their Impact on Society

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In 1973 an inventor by the name Martin Cooper developed the first cell phone that was approved for commercial use. Since cell phone first invent they have gone massive changes and become more advanced, from bag phones to phones look like bricks, and from tiny phone to every day smart phone, cell phones are always changing. The advancement in technology, changed our relationship with the phone and changed the way we behave. Making calls in public places, some love it, others hate it. Today we live in a world of continues communication, everywhere we look, people are calling, texting or taking pictures with their phones. In fact people are going against their better judgment and continue to text even during activities that considered dangerous …show more content…

Cell phones now has been known to kill thousands of people. Lately there has not been a day where there is no accident, death or injury due to someone driving while using their cell phone. On May 17th, 2013, fox 4 news “teen dies in accident while texting”. Fox9.com “police: Byron teen killed in crash on first day of school was texting”. CBS 6 news “Girl’s heartbreaking story will make you think twice before texting while driving”. These were just 3 examples of how texting and driving could be so dangerous, yet we chose to ignore it. Over the past years there have been way too many innocent people that are losing their lives due to the reckless drivers that are around. Drivers must give a 100% of their attention to the road. We are living in an era where technology has been taking over our …show more content…

Some of us love them so much that constantly have to have them in our hands. Sure that our whole life might be on cell phone, however we should not let it be the reason to end our life in a car crash. Many of us use our cellphones while driving, because we naturally like to think that nothing bad could happen to us, and that we are always in control. But usually that is not the case. According to text and driving safety.com “77% of young adults are very or somewhat confident that they can safely text and while driving. 55% of young adult drivers claims it’s easy to text while they drive” Rather than having a safe point A to point B trip inside our vehicle, we rather flex our awesome multitasks skills and use our cell phone while

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