Thursday, October 16, 2008

Walking through campus, I look around & what do I see... nearly every single person with their cell phone. Mostly texting. Some chatting. Others just taking a glance - waiting for a missed call/text. Checking the time, or e-mail. Surfing the Internet. Taking pictures.

Our society has become so obsessed with cell phones. It's hard to imagine that just 35 years ago, no one had even heard of a cell phone. Now people literally don't know how to live without them. In class, the majority of students have their cell phones out... most text throughout a lecture. And you always have those people who forget to silence them, and they go off in the middle of the professor's talk.

I'm not saying I'm not one of these people, who permanently has their cell phone on them. But sometimes it just becomes too much. I would absolutely love to just have a week with no cell phone. But, in reality, I don't know if I could deal with it (at least for the first few days). When I'm bored, I text. I can't help it. It's become such a habit for me. And I think people would worry if I didn't. Ha.

But I do think I feel an experiment coming on soon.