1. In “Public Display of Disaffection” by Anne Kingston, she talks about why cellphones are either good or bad. There are more bad points then good points in the article. Three main points are that she talked about how “It’s an addiction, she says, one that puts personal and business relationships, both of which rely on making others feel valued, at risk” making it hard to communicate with friends without being distracted by your phone and making your friends mad at you, or mad that you don’t listen to them and it could make them feel like you don’t care. Also she says that many people are “narcissistic multi-taskers holding up lineups” which you don’t need if you are in a hurry to buy something and leave and go somewhere else fast, and with “diners instagraming their entrees, dinner companions obsessively checking messages as if waiting to perform an organ transplant” all the time it is not a rule that you have to check your phone every time you get a message, some people could find it rude if you are eating dinner with them and you insist on sending someone a picture of your dinner, or if you are texting your other friends about whatever. You probably aren’t paying attention to who you are out for dinner with. On a website called Retrevo they took a survey and found out that “10 percent of people under age 25 didn’t see anything wrong with texting during sex” which is kind of weird. I’m sure that the person you are having sex with someone they wouldn’t like you to be texting and not paying attention to them. It would be sort of awkward if someone started texting when they were having sex I think.
2. I agree that texting on your cellphone is addicting. I like to text and I always have my phone with me to text my friends. Sometimes I shouldn’t be on my phone and texting but I do anyway because it is so addicting, just because I feel like I always have to reply to my friends or sometimes my parents will text me and I reply to them. When people hold up lines because they are texting and don’t realize they are holding up people it makes me mad. If you can’t text and walk or pay attention and you are making other people wait you shouldn’t do it because people have things to do in the day. I don’t know if you should text during sex because it could make the other person feel really awkward and it seems sort of rude. If someone would let that I guess it would be okay, but I don’t know who would actually do that.
3. Acceptable times to be on your phones are when; you have no more important stuff to do, when no one is talking that you need to pay all your attention to, and when you are at home. Unacceptable times would be when; you are driving, at the movies, or when you are eating.
I don’t think they should do the cellphone jams because that would suck that you wouldn’t be able to text your friends or family when you wanted to. It would make it a lot harder to plan stuff like when your parents can’t pick up your siblings and they want you to they wouldn’t be able to ask you. It wouldn’t be cool if they did that because then I wouldn’t get to use my phone a lot and talk to my friends all the time.
I don’t think they should do the cellphone jams because that would suck that you wouldn’t be able to text your friends or family when you wanted to. It would make it a lot harder to plan stuff like when your parents can’t pick up your siblings and they want you to they wouldn’t be able to ask you. It wouldn’t be cool if they did that because then I wouldn’t get to use my phone a lot and talk to my friends all the time.
