Brrrrng....brrrrng...Hello? Did you hear? Cell phones are the new thing! How many people do you know who have a cell phone as compared to those who don't? The imbalance is staggering, but that's today's world. Everyone has one, it's more common to see kids talking on their new razor than playing on the basketball court. With such a monumental form of communication, our world has shrunk to just a few numbers and a dial tone away.
It's the norm, your strange if you don't have one. Cells phones are the biggest thing since margarine. And why shouldn't they be? With every age comes some new advancement, sweeping the globe with it's high grade performance. What people today like and desire is speed, and convenience, which the cell phone most definitely provides.
With two thirds of the adult population of America owning a cell phone, it reflects how many children do. They use them at the park, at the mall, at home, everywhere, feeling they just have to stay in touch and must do it now! While this is all good and well, it takes away from other forms of communication. Writing a personalized letter is all but extinct, and teens don't need to meet up at some community location to chit-chat when they have speed dial.
With the options of calling, and texting, cell phone communication has become the absolute quickest way to spread the latest word. In a school setting, everyone knows almost as soon as something has happened. Out in the working world, the old saying 'the word spread like wild fire" is too slow to describe the rapidity with which rumors can multiply. No one need feel uninformed about life in the world, just perhaps misinformed.
So while cell phones are the coolest, fastest, sleekest things to hit the market, with new designs and models coming out all the time, perhaps there is something to be said about the value of a slow conversation, the meaning of something which is given the rightful time to be said. Perhaps our fast paced planet should use the five senses we have and save the sixth cell phone sense a rest.
