| Have you left your house recently without your cell | | | | phone is really a wonderful device. Many people stated |
| phone? Do you get that panicked feeling at being | | | | that their purpose in getting their first cell phone was |
| without your lifeline to the world? As I hopped in my | | | | for emergencies. While they may have been just |
| car the other day without my cell phone, I thought I | | | | giving a good excuse for buying the irresistible device, |
| would just be gone for an hour or so I really didn’t | | | | the reason is actually a very valid one. Not only are |
| need to climb the stairs back up to my apartment and | | | | you connected to everyone you know at a moments |
| get it. It turned out to be true, but as I drove down the | | | | notice, but you are also able to connect to emergency |
| street I started to get a worried feeling in the pit of my | | | | services in the event something happens. And not only |
| stomach. What will I do if the car breaks down? What | | | | that but there have been instances of bystanders |
| if there is a really great sale on summer sandals at the | | | | using a cell phone to call for help for another person. |
| mall, how will I tell my sister? | | | | That is the really great benefit of cell phones. |
| It has become increasingly obvious that today’s cell | | | | The technology has advanced to such a degree that |
| phone user can’t go for too long without their | | | | a person carrying a cell phone can be located if their |
| favorite gadget. The complete and total saturation into | | | | cell is on. This has great implications for the parents of |
| the consumer market of the cell phone has been one | | | | children who are missing. If that child has a cell and it is |
| of the most astounding that has ever been witnessed. | | | | on they should be able to be located. The technology |
| Watch the people as they drive down the street, a | | | | is not fool proof and that does not mean that we can |
| good 60% if not more of them have cell phones | | | | put our guard down and not protect ourselves. It only |
| plastered to their ears. Walk through a mall or in a | | | | means that there are a greater number of options for |
| coffee shop you will find that most of the customers | | | | locating missing people. |
| are busily talking to someone else while they are trying | | | | So the question remains, what did we do before cell |
| to conduct business with the shopkeepers and | | | | phones? Well, I guess we broke down in our cars and |
| baristas. What did we ever do before we were able | | | | walked to a pay phone, or we found the great sale at |
| to contact anyone we wanted anywhere we | | | | the mall and had to wait till we got home to tell our |
| wanted? | | | | sister. We managed to get through life without them. |
| As much as people complain about their use in cars | | | | But now that they’re here, who wants to? |
| and while standing at the checkout in the store, the cell | | | | |