It’s hard to imagine a time where we didn't have the choice of
simply picking up the phone and calling our best friend, our mothers, or
customer service when something goes wrong. This is especially true
for those of us known as Generation X or Y. Even my mother, a baby
boomer sometimes says, “What did we do before telephones were
invented?” Let's face it, once upon a time people didn't have land lines, or cellphones, or smartphones. They simply wrote a letter, put a stamp on it, and sent it via the mail.
Telephones have drastically changed our day to day lives. They make
our lives so much easier because we can call anyone we want, anytime,
anywhere. Phones make it possible to call our friend to just talk about
the weather, to contact a loved one visiting another country, to call
in sick from work.
From where they started, telephones have definitely
evolved and possibly even consumed our lives. Land lines have been
updated and evolved into cellphones. Once cellphones looked like bricks
and now they have been transformed into sleek touch phones that have
so many gadgets and gizmos that people rarely even use their phones to
call people.
Phones now contain apps, internet, email, cameras,
facebook, twitter, tumblr, games, anything you can think of. Above all
things, people now use their phones to text more than anything else. Be
honest, haven’t you ever seen those teenagers walking through the
store, face glued to their phone about to run into something? Heck, my
own mother was texting at the dinner table last night even after
yelling at my sister and me so many times. After all, why call people
when you can just send a text?
