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Kids & Cell Phones Part 1. By Robert Lett
Is it safety? Is it security? Or is it just cool?
Have you ever noticed how many kiosks have popped up in you favorite
mall? And just about all of them are selling cell phones. Teens can actually
design their own graphics and have the graphic airbrushed on the face of the
phone itself. They face plates and antennas that light up on each ring. Just
drop by a kiosk next time your at the mall, you'll see what I mean.
In a resent Los Angeles Times article, they stated that teens with cell
phones were at around 16% on average. I think by 2005, it will more of an
average of 50% or even more.
Cell phones seem to be a great security feature for the parents. They can
now be 'connected' to their children 24 hours a day, 7 days week, and 365 days a
year. And of course, it allows the child to dial 911 if an emergency arises. And
now with the GPS Location Sensitivity feature, your child will be located during
that emergency with ten feet of the phones location.
Of course, with all this technology and added security, there are a few
problems. The school systems are being cluttered with phone calls in the middle
of class. And there is always the problem with calls in the hallways and
bathrooms going on continuously. Most schools are adopting the "use it
during school - you loose it" policy. This has become a real burden on
school administrators. Their parents as far as carrying the phones themselves
back the children. So this isn't something they can take away and keep until the
end of the year. They must give the phones back at the end of the day. This is
usually enough of a deterrent to keep them off during school hours.
If children and most adults new to cell phones could just remember to put
their phones on silent or vibrate alert, these problems would never occur. These
are the same issues with many other public places including movie theaters. Of
course, it's easier for some wearing a belt to put their phone on vibrate, then
you still know if the phone rings or not, regardless if you answer it or not.
But for most women, they usually don't wear belts, this creates a problem. If
the phone is in any mode other than "ring", they never know, (without
checking from time to time), if they have missed a call or not. So usually, the
phones are left in the "ring" mode and probably on load, sitting
somewhere in the bottom of a purse. Even with the purses with the little pocket
on the outside for the phone, the phones are still left in the "ring"
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