Final paper post 2/20/09

Blog entry # 4
FINAL PAPER
ON
CELL PHONES
My thesis statement is “Cell phones interrupting people’s private life.” Cell phones have become so popular these days that almost everyone in the family owns one, starting from an infant, who gets easily amused by the different pictures and musical tones played on cell phones, which is very annoying when you are talking on important matter, the little kid tries to grab the phone in his little hands and takes it right into the mouth, that is where the little baby gets the germs.
It is so annoying when people get interrupted by their cell phones in important meetings, dinner table, restaurants, and churches while you are deeply praying, movies, Phillies game or any other game where you have to concentrate, in grocery stores or out in public when you start to talk so loud because of the interference. I still remember when the ear piece just came out; I thought it was a hearing aid attached to the ear or when I noticed people walking and talking with the ear piece, it felt like people are crazy talking to themselves.
We see a lot of media convergence for example, the cell phones are connected to Internet, where they have an access to their e-mails and people have a tendency of checking their messages or text messaging unnecessarily while driving which can run into serious accidents, that shows that cell phones can take people’s lives, like in the recent movie “ Seven Pounds”, in which the driver used the cell phone for a minute and took several people’s lives in split seconds and later on the driver had such a guilt trip that he donated his own body parts to several people to save their lives.
Text messaging on the cell phone is ruining our newer generation’s language, their grammar, reading and writing skills, through short form of text language. The children abuse the text messaging to distract the class or other kids. The other media convergence, Video games are now Internet compatible, cell phones have a capability of playing video games and little cameras to watch movies on iPod, another waste of time for the kids.
Podcasting is done through cell phones, net roots limited to computer savvy people; the rest goes to the grass roots the original simple devices.
The articles that I have chosen for my paper are from the High Beam Research (www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1) Research archive from the newspaper article telling how the cell phones can pose danger to aircraft operations. The federal Aviation Administration and Federal Communications Commission ban the use of cell phones during commercial airline flights. As I have mentioned above how dangerous it is to use the cell phones or text messaging on cell phones while driving, the same or stricter rules apply for flying.
The second article is from National Institute on Media and the Family. On Cell phone = Internet.
The article is about surfing the Web on the cell phone, which has the Internet access to MySpace profiles, send e-mails, upload pictures to You Tube, and how these gadgets on cell phones can be very expansive and un affordable for the parents, as I have stated above how badly cell phones are affecting our kids. Young children can download inappropriate pictures or messages off the Internet and send them to others.
In general constant access use of cell phones can be very distracting and harmful for everyone.