Saturday, November 8, 2008

Journal#3

Cell phone


Who does not annoy and distract when someone’s cell phone rings in the middle of class, test, or meeting?

Some people consider it an annoying tool because it spends their time, or because misusing it from people who do not care about others’ feelings.
In contrast, some people consider it as an important tool especially this period of time to reserve or cancel their appointments or to use it in emergences cases. Recently, it is rarely to find a person adult or young without a cell phone. Here is a list of countries by the number of cell phones in use.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_mobile_phones_in_use
We can notice the number of cell phones in use comparing with the number of the population in each country.
However, cell phones attract people by their types, colors and sizes. We know that all cell phones’ companies compete to add new characteristics to their products to attract people. Also, they offer some safety tools such as speaker which lets people talk on their cell phones easily and safely when they drive, cook and work. Therefore, each person is responsible to be safe and aware in using it.
The article in our book shows that not only cell phone causes cars’ accidents but there are several other causes. Also, it shows that cell phones cannot cause brain cancer directly and people need more research and accurate studies to prove that cell phone can cause it. I agree with these facts, and I know that there are some negative aspect of cell phones, but I think cell phones are not the problem, but the problem is in misusing it , and people need some consciousness to know how to use it and when.

Finally, I would say that cell phones will not disappear any time soon, and people cannot get a long without them. Therefore, we have to choose either accept it with all its negative and positive aspects or to work hard to increase people’s consciousness.

1 comment:

Eilidh said...

I agree with you - that it is not the invention, but the way people use it that is the problem! I really wish that we didn't need totalk about this, and that people would just know that certain ways of behving are rude and disruptive, but it seems some people are just oblivious to their surroundings... I recently bought my first ever cell phone, but I am very self-cpconscious about using it in public, and try not to do that as much as I can!