Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Cell Phones and Kids
Cell phones in today’s society are a must have, it seems like if you don’t have one or one of the newer style phones you are just out of the loop. I remember I had to wait until I was sixteen years old to get a cell phone, and I felt like I was the last person to get one. Now, I see all these really young kids with them, my little cousin who is in the fifth grade got a cell phone for her birthday this month and said that she was one of the last kids in her grade to get a phone. I mean personally I think it’s crazy the way that this young of a person has to have a phone, maybe in emergency, but it just feels like kids are starting things at such a younger age now. There are also so many different styles of phones now with internet on them and everything, it’s like all you need is your phone anymore. We’ve come a long way since the day of the bag phones, but the most interesting is that these kids have to have cell phones to fit in with our pop culture.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
It always gives me a weird feeling when I see the third graders at the elementary school i work at texting each other. . .this post is so true!
My little brother is 10 and he has a cell phone. My mom got him an unlimited texting plan, and he texts constantly! When I was that age I had to beg to get a $6 barbie doll. When I was in high school she would only pay for dial up internet at $10 a month. But now mom shells out $40+ a month for his cell phone. It's weird that parents feel they have to "keep up" buying their children things they don't need just to fit in. Isn't it so embarassing when you are in 5th grade and your friend wants to send you a really cool pic and you have to say you don't have a cell phone? I just hate that
I'm twenty-two and I don't have a cell phone. Nowadays kids don't get to see how cool walkie-talkies clearly are, because they've basically had one attached to their face since they were three.
I feel like cell phones for kids is a good thing for safety reasons. But to let you know I am 24 and when I was sixteen only like a third of the kids in my class had cell phones. So, that tells you how fast technology moves.
Post a Comment