Who doesn't have a cellphone?

   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?