Cell Phones
This is just a quick page about something I
feel strongly about. Why does everyone need a cell phone, and more importantly, why does
everyone have to be on it all the time.
Everytime I see someone in the car, jabbing away, not paying attention to driving, it makes me go insane. What is so important that you have to be talking to someone while you are walking in the street, getting on the elevator, going to the bathroom, etc.? I know what most of the conversations are... "No, I'm out, I'm on the cell phone. Guess where I am? I'm in the car..."
The whole cell phone phenomena is basically a novelty, the fact that you are so important that you must have instataneous connectivity at any given moment. I know how useful cell phones are, I have one myself. I use it when I am broken down somewhere, or meeting someone and I don't have specific directions. The conversations last approximately one minute. I understand the use in business where communication is the edge.
What my complaint is the frivilousness of conversations and the technology that enable it. Does a 12 year old outside the movie theater need to be talking to one of his friends for twenty minutes while online? Or what about that woman in the pizza place screeching to her pals about what who said this and that. I have been on the train watching a woman having a personal crisis about he boyfriend, crying hysterically, with no regard to the fifty other people within her vicinity.
I get a call from one person everytime he is in a bar, and he is so distracted, we talk about nothing, and he gets frustrated and hangs up. People, I want you to realize one thing; if someone is calling you while they are on line somewhere, or driving, it's because they don't care enough about you to visit, or call you with undivided attention.
My last plea is to you cell phone abusers, use your phones where there is no alternative, and for the love of Pete, just because you get free minutes, that doesn't mean you have to have empty chatter to use them up.
