Argumentative Essay On Cellphones

In this day and age it seems like everyone from the youngest to the oldest has a cellphone. I’ve seen children as young as 5 years to adult over the age of 80 years olds using a cellphone. I believe I don’t need a cellphone. Cellphones and its accessory such as the cases can be very expensive. Don’t get me started on the monthly bill. When you first open an account, the wireless carrier claims they are giving you the best plan ever, and that the monthly rate will remain the same for a least one year. However, within a month or two you look on your bill and see that you have to pay at least $40 more than when your service started. These are the hidden fees and cost that the carrier does not tell you about when they lure you in to choosing

Instead of communicating verbally, one tends to text. People have lost the skills on how to look each other in the eye and talk! Without a cellphone I am able to have face to face conversations. I am able to look someone in the eye without hesitation and speak. I’m also able to hear the sincerity in someone’s voice that I’m speaking to them or the anger in their tone. Through text messages a person’s tone is always misinterpreted. A message that may have been sent with no mal intentions can be interrupted by the reader as sarcastic or rude. Cellphones can take that person to person connection

Have you ever been to a restaurant and watched a couple or group of friends sit at their table and everyone was on their phone; either texting, playing a game or probably on social media. No one was communicating with each other. I don’t want to be that person that everyone stops to stare at when at a restaurant with other people and I choose to be on my cellphone. There is also nothing more inappropriate than when you are in a middle of a conversation with someone and they stop to answer their phone or to look at a text message and respond to it. That can be very disrespectful and offensive to the person that is speaking to you. I don’t need a cellphone because when I go to the movies I can pay attention to the big screen in front of me instead of the small one that’s in my handbag. If I don’t feel like carrying a handbag I don’t have to worry about the phone falling out of my pocket. That will prevent spending hours explaining to customer service how I lost my phone or damaged it. I don’t have to stress myself when the customer service representative tells me I have to pay for the replacement phone because the phone insurance does not replace lost