A Cellular Generation

There is no escaping them. They are everywhere such as in the stores, at the movies, in restaurants, in church, even in the classroom. And just what is this causing the constant buzzing in your ears and the persistent ringing in your head? Teenagers with cell phones! It seems that everywhere you turn there is a giggling, gasping, gossiping girl or a babbling, bellowing, blaspheming boy chattering away at a buzzing, ringing, palm-sized piece of …showed first 75 words of 885 total…

…showed last 75 words of 885 total…idols appear to work – at first. That’s how they become idols” (“Promises, Promises”, par. 5). Cell phones are a basic necessity for this generation of youth and a staple need in our present culture. The decade of the sixties is remembered for its hippies and protesters. The seventies are remembered for their discos and drugs. Certainly teenagers with cell phones is an image that this decade will be associated with for many generations to come.