ell phones have impacted our society in a many number of ways, but are all those impacts positive? There are many downsides to this particular form of technology. Companies are constantly coming out with new upgrades/models each year which make the older models practically useless as time goes. This new upgrades aren’t cheap
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aren’t cheap either and a lot of the big brand names cost close to just under a thousand dollars. As well as you don’t just pay for the cost of the phone, you have to pay for your phone plan each month as well, and some people can’t afford that and have to constantly buy minutes.
buy minutes. Cell phones are a very popular product and guaranteed almost every person you ask, will own one. A lot of companies require their employees have a cell phone on them for work reasons, which only increases our dependence on them. With this over dependence comes bigger problems like addiction, over 67% of cell phone owners have reported that check their phones for calls or messages even when they didn’t feel their phone vibrate or hear it ring. (Signs...) This can be very dangerous and lead to things like texting and driving, and when all added up the number of accidents as a result of texting and driving is almost double the number of accidents as a result of impaired driving in 2016 alone. (Lagerquist)