Cell Phones!

So, I read the cell phone article because it was the one that interested me the most being a cell phone user. I have never really thought much about how my talking on the phone could really interrupt someone’s day. The writer of the cell phone article goes to explain how cell phones are like cigarettes. No one wants to breathe in anyone else smoke, and in the article conversation is like smoke and no one else wants to hear your conversation. Have having a cell phone for the past 5 years I haven’t really thought about my talking or texting being rude really, but I have caught myself getting annoyed when I’m talking to someone and they are texting so I have really tried to cut back on that. And even just right now, sitting in the library I answered my phone and had a conversation! I tried to make it as quiet as possible though. So it really does make sense when he says that cell phones are like cigarettes, but I don’t think he should go as far to say that they should be banned from public places because that is a little ridiculous, most of us wouldn’t carry and use our phones unless we needed them, so they shouldn’t be banned. I also really liked that he gave some statistics about cell phones, such as 61 percent said that it was ok to use a phone in a grocery store, and 62 percent find it ok to use them in the restroom, but in 2001 only 39 percent did. These statistics just really show that we have come to rely on our cell phones more heavily over the years since more and more people are getting them.