How We Use Our Cell Phones

Cell phones really sprang up around the 2000s and we quickly moved into the smart phone era. It won’t be long before cell phone makers quit making the Nokia bar phones and start producing more phones that emulate the iPhone or Android.
 
This presents a problem to our world as more and more of us become increasingly dependent on our smart phones. I, for one, can’t imagine going back to my Samsung flip phone with no data capabilities and T9 texting. I have also noticed how my mobile manners have just gone down the drain as I continue to upgrade my phones every two years.
 
I used to interrupt conversations to answer calls, sometimes texts, but now that my phone updates me on every Facebook notification, tweet, and email that I receive, it’s nearly impossible to sit through an entire meal without having to pick up my phone once ore twice.
 
We toss around certain rules that we would like for everyone to abide by when it comes to using our phones in social or professional settings, but the truth is, no one wants to call anyone else out for being rude on their phones because they don’t want to be held accountable about their own cell phone usage.
 
Perhaps part of the reason why we’re just unable to leave our phones alone when it buzzes or beeps is because deep down inside, we all think that we’re very important people and if our phone is going off then it must be urgent! Either that or we’ve become enslaved to our phones- they dictate our lives and command us to drop whatever we’re doing to answer its call. Literally. There have been times when I have leaped over books, climbed over tables, jumped over couches, and flipped my purse inside out to make sure I don’t miss my call. Have you?
 
So what how do we deal with these blinking, buzzing, and beeping gadgets? Are there certain cell phone habits we need to do away with, and if so, are you willing to give up the same habits that you feel others need to give up?