A Cellular Generation
There is no escaping them. They are everywhere such as in the stores, at the movies, in restaurants, in church, even in the classroom. And just what is this causing the constant buzzing in your ears and the persistent ringing in your head? Teenagers with cell phones! It seems that everywhere you turn there is a giggling, gasping, gossiping girl or a babbling, bellowing, blaspheming boy chattering away at a buzzing, ringing, palm-sized piece of plastic. In a national study by Teenage Research Unlimited, it was reported that nearly six million teenagers own a cell phone today (Lee,“Tailoring Cell Phones for Teen,” par. 7). Where has this craze come from? Why the obsession over wireless phones? While cell phones cater to the modern teen’s addiction to instant gratification, the “need-to-know-NOW” syndrome, they also serve as a mark of status, maybe a representation of maturity and certainly as source of comfort to an insecure and developing teenager.Before cell phones were the hip thing it was pagers. And before that, it was little electric diaries with which you could beam messages to your friend sitting on the other side of the classroom. If you were really cool, you had one with voice recognition that
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Approximate Word count = 1001
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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