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opinion:
our view
Cell
phones out of hand
How impersonal and self-centered can people get? Students
and faculty members alike stroll around campus daily, averting
their eyes from passers by and keeping generally oblivious
to the world around them.
Except for those little electronic saviors clasped into sweaty
palms.
Yes, this campus and the world in general have become far
too dependent on their cellular phones. People walk out of
class and immediately call someone with whatever hot news
they learned in their class or the hot gossip they overheard
two rows back.
It is not just on campus that cell phones rule. They are in
movie theaters, restaurants and even in gyms. We cannot believe
that anyone has something so important to say that it cannot
wait until after they have finished their five-mile stationary
bike ride across a fictional mountain range.
We have all been disturbed at the movies or in a classroom
when a little Nokia chimes out "Fur Elise" only
to have someone answer their phone with the sage statement:
"Nothing, what are you doing?"
Americans' dependency on cell phones has reached a sickening
level. We are so sorry to say that nobody is so important
that you cannot wait until you get home or at least to your
car to call him or her and tell them whatever supposedly hot
news you have.
Americans, particularly those that are our age, are already
becoming more and more detached from reality and from real
interpersonal relationships. Cell phones are a great convenience
and are definitely useful, but they have gotten out of hand.
So what can be done with this bleak situation. We suggest
turning the cell phone off and talking to someone in person.
Instead of calling your boyfriend or girlfriend across campus,
meet them someplace.
The state of communications among the general public is at
stake here. We hope that students across the nation would
rather see eye to eye with each other, then listen ear to
ear.
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