Negative Effects Of Cell Phones

Today’s cell phones are more than just phones; they are high-tech devices that some would consider mini-computers. Today’s cell phones allow people to surf the Internet, conduct text conversations with others, take pictures, record videos, download and listen to music, play games. For children and teenagers, this allows for anytime, anywhere communication, especially when it comes to friends. With cell phones, children are always only a few buttons away, highly connected and almost always available. Parents who allow their children to have cell phones feel secure that they can contact their children at a moment’s notice.
Technology gives teens, and some adults, more ways to do something other than what they are supposed to such as homework. In the adult world, it is a common experience that the lines between work and leisure have been blurred. Adults often work at home and play at work, by e-mailing and text messaging friends and family, passing along jokes and family photos, or reading the news. Business owners are increasingly relying on spying programs to spy on their employees to make sure that their activities are both appropriate and work related. The students’ “bottom lines” are academic achievement and success.
Socializing on cell phones while trying to do homework or study, no matter what anybody says, is not the best option for the best learning environment possible. Also realize that you may not even hear a child talking on the phone. Realize, however, that children can use their cell phones for a variety of purposes that goes beyond talking such as updating their social networks such a Facebook or Twitter, text messaging, or posting photos to their same social networks.
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...need to be able to efficiently manage the use of their cell phones. We must be able to hold ourselves accountable for texting at appropriate times. We have to be able to know when it is a right and wrong time to engage in texting. If we do not, the government will continue to have to waste its time, effort, and resources to ensure that individuals are not abusing the convenience of text messaging. So, it is on a personal level that society must correctly use this amazing power. When driving a car, a person must have the clarity of mind to put down their cell phone. When their body physically hurts from over texting, they must put down the phone and take a break. The text message has so many potential upsides that it is crucial that society learns to be responsible with this power. Only then, can we realize the full potential that the text message has to offer.