Social Uses/ Implications of Technology and Media

A technology that gives shape to my daily routine: It has to be my cell phone without a doubt. It wakes me up, it tells me when to go to class, people can text me on it, I play music on it and oh yeah, I can do this cool thing where I can speak to someone on it and we can have a full conversation. I am absolutely amazed at how much my cell phone controls me. When I was younger, I was one of the last of my friends to get a cell phone. “I don’t need a cell phone!” I would declare, so green with envy it could have killed me.
It’s really sad because I usually have my cell phone set on vibrate, and randomly throughout the day I will feel a vibration and go to see who’s calling and nobody will have called me or anything. THAT is how much it is controlling me. I think it is like that with everyone by now, at least my age. Your cell phone is your life. In the world of cell phones, your cell phone is you. It is almost as if we don’t even exist anymore. People do not call you; they call your cell phone. Your cell phone is your key to the social world. The day of knocking on doors and calling home numbers is dead. People don’t want to ask your mom if you’re home, they want to talk to you. I think a little part of us would rather our ankles break then our cell phone. I mean who wants to miss that text from Kelly down the hall?