I remember getting my first cell phone in high school. It basically did four things: turned on, made calls, received calls, and turned off. I think it might have had a game loaded onto it?
It definitely didn't have music, wi-fi capabilities, GPS, internet, thousands of books, email, calendars, alarms, calculators, videos, cameras, magical women named Siri, ways to go meet new people for dates, maps, or even Angry Birds.
How did I ever survive with out it?!
Just kidding. I definitely miss those simpler times, especially when I'm out at dinner with friends and suddenly I look around to see we're all on Facebook instead of talking to one another.
Teenagers definitely get the worst reputation for this. The stereotype of the modern teenager is a person who can't look up from their phone for more than five minutes, but sometimes adults can be just as bad.
Recently, a photographer in Redondo Beach, CA photographed a man so engrossed in his cell phone that he missed the once-in-a-lifetime view of a humpback whale breaching the waves just a few feet in front of him. Eric says the whale flipped and jumped, but the man never once looked up from his phone the entire time.
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Smith told ABC News, "He could have been texting his mom in the hospital for all I know, but I thought it sucked that he missed such a wonderful moment happening just two feet in front of him."
