I find cellphones useful, so I don't have to use public phones that only God knows what touched'em and its also a nice way to avoid using the phone at the CS desk at walmart when I lost track of my party.
Texting is nice, but the dependence on it has ruined humanity's ability to have a proper face to face conversation, its bugs the crap out of me that I can't use what I learned 10 years ago, people can still converse face to face, they just have gotten rude.
Once my 14 year old sister that steals my cellphone, I cought her posting my phone number out on myspace, I notice a lot of kids do that these days and its dangerous and annoying(annoying if you share). Especially if you find it on sites like http://www.spokeo.com which I encourage people to check out because you will be surprise how much of your private info is out there, make sure and search up not just your name, your email(s) and phone numbers too.
Kids these days need disciplin, parents need to only give the phone only if they are out with their friends, family outing, home alone and on trips. Waiting til' they are 16 years of age is not a bad idea to actually give them the phone. Because they need to know theres more to socializing than how much money you get for texting.
I'd say if you still have a home line, you have your kids call their friends instead of sitting around texting and if they need to text use sites like http://textdrop.com or Yahoo IM.
(Back thought: who needs iPhone game apps when you got a DSi/DSiXL/PSP.)
We have it easy these days, I know parents are so happy that they can give their kids what they didn't have, but to be honest, parents have become just as bad as the kids. I suppose this world has become a world ruled by giant kids or has it always been like that. I've always felt like I aged or matured backwards, perhaps because I lived in a world of adults, I guess being homeschooled can do that to you?
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