How Have Cell Phones Changed Society Research

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Although throughout the years, there have been bounteous inventions, this main invention has entirely changed how we live. There is an amount of many inventions being created today. But, I believe the phone has changed the way all of us live daily.
Phones have changed the way we live by so many ways. First, so many children have phones at such young ages. In my opinion, children do not need phones until they are old enough to take on that responsibility. An abundant amount of adolescent children have cell phones. Children do not have enough of responsibility keep up with phones, and can very well misplace phones at times. Most likely, if a child misplaces the cell phone, they will not find it, and if they do it is months down the road. Therefore,
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With games, texting, social media, and all the distractions, it takes away from everything else. When cell phones were not in our everyday lives, we spent more time outside, and with our families. Phones also take away family time. If everyone has a phone, or a type of technology device, more and more families will end in divorce and split up families. Families need to have quality time. Phones take this time away. Setting down daily to talk to your family members, and friends are the most part that cell phones take away from us. Even though phones take these things away, they also add some positives. Talking to friends that have moved away, and family that live out of town. Phones do have some downs about them, but I believe the world is changing, so we must change along with it. It is very possible to live without a phone in this hectic world, but also very difficult to do.
With needing phones at work, getting hold of family, taking care of bills over the phone, and every other complex problem in today's world, it is almost impossible not to have any type of phone. Cell phones have impacted many lives, and will continue to. Phones have even impacted the lives of our elderly. They also have to change with this complicated world, but some choose to stay with a flip phone, or just none at

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