Imagine you, your mother, father,siblings or anyone in your family did not have a cell phone. Imagine that your only form of long distance or even "I am at the store, what do you want communication" was through land lines.I imagine that life to be slow, troublesome, and to some degree lonely. With that being said, cell phones have had a positive impact on the American family.
To truly be connected with or be a "family," a family needs communication.Cell phones help families come together because of the degree of communication it gives people. No matter where you are in the world you could communicate with whoever has a cell phone on the other side of the world without the restrictions of cables. This freedom makes family communication more frequent and less stressful.
People may that that having cell phones damages the time that family members can spend together because of how a cell phone can trap people in their own worlds. That is a valid argument, but when weighed that against the positives of cell phones such being able to contact someone the at you are looking for when you have no idea where they are; or if you are extremely far away from home and you want to speak to family, cell phones make that possible at whatever location both parties maybe. That ability alone makes cell phones very valuable to the relationships that people want to preserve in their families. With that being said I believe that cell phones have brought families closer together and will only continue to as the capabilities of cell phones expand.
Valid points!
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