ModuleII Essay

Cell Phones
Cellular phones have been on the market for over 14 years and the cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA) estimates over 51 million users across the country. Due to the tremendous increase in popularity of cellular phones, many questions are surfacing concerning safety, health and environmental issues. Cell phones are a very important part of our society today. Everyone from students, businessmen to a stay at home mom rely heavily on cell phones every single day to insure protection of their families, friends and businesses. Cell phones give us many advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion cell phones do more good for our civilization than bad.
According to Hans Geser Cell phones have not interested many sociologists are trying to disconnect us from the social part of what life has to offer. “The telephone has interested very few sociologists, because it is too exclusively connected with the very lowest level of social life” said, Hans Geser. This is a very strong point that Geser made because no longer do we have to meet face to face with people in order to discuss potential business deals or just to keep in touch with people in our communities. We have become so reliant on cell phones that we no longer for the most part go to people’s houses to talk with them or discuss business matters; we just make phone calls and do everything over the phone. So where is the social face to face conservation that enhances the communication between different individuals?

Today million dollar investments and deals are made right over the phone with people from different countries. Businessmen exchange million’s of dollars without even looking at the face of whom there trading with. All they know is that the company does very well in that particular country, so they just invest in it. If things keep going as they are, then one day we may not have any social gatherings at all, because it is so convenient to do everything over the phone, and saving time.
One of the advantages of cell phones discussed in the article by Hens Geser, says that Cell phones have strengthened ties among people. “Despite its technical capacity for making any individuals immediately accessible to each other, the phone has nevertheless contributed to strengthening ties among people already familiar with each other” said Hens Geser. I agree with this statement made by Geser, because with the help of Phones people, who already know each other can talk with one another everyday to maintain strong bonds of relationship with one another. It is because of phones that relatives from different countries and Maintain a strong bond with one another by talking to each other everyday. I am originally from India, when my family moved here 8 years ago, we left behind many relatives of ours. We were able to keep in touch with them by using phones, without hearing our relative’s voices; we may have lost touch with them over all these years. So from my opinion cell phones do more good for our communities than bad.

Most media reports would have you believe that research studies on the negative health effects of cell phones use are few and far between. Many reports on the health risks of cell phones have been published over the last few decades. A study led by Dr Agarwal, Ph.D summarizes some of the researched health consequences of the microwave radiation we are exposed to through cell phone use. “Cell phones expose humans to wavelengths at very dangerous levels that could ultimately result in human DNA strand breaks and also in the reduction of melatonin, which is a hormone produced in the brain by the pineal gland from the amino acid tryptophan” Dr Agarwal Ph.D.
The use of cell phones has also been related to Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a brain disorder named for German physician Alois Alzheimer, who first described it in 1906. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease as many as 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer's destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, lifelong hobbies or social life. Alzheimer’s gets worse over time, and it is fatal. Today it is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States. So, cell phones even with all the advantages they offer humans can be very destructive to the human body.

Cell phones are very important in our society and will remain important for many years to come, because they have much to offer to the human race. Adults and Students of all ages today are already very amused by cell phones, because they allow many different forms of communications with one another. Not only can we use the phones to talk with one another, but today we can also text messages back and forth with one another saving time. It is just not the teenagers that use texting to drastic measures, but also the adults today that manage many businesses or have many responsibilities also use texting on drastic measures to insure the safety of their businesses, families and friends. Essentially in my opinion everything breaks down to saving time and efficiency. Cell phones offer both and that’s why they are so popular within our society and will remain important for generations to come.
So, in conclusion cell phones offer many advantages and disadvantages to humans. But if we can overlook some of the defaults in the cell phones, we will see that life without cell phones wouldn’t be the same. In our society today everything if about saving time and cell phones allow us to save time and have communication with anyone from anywhere. This is exactly why cell phones will remain in our lives until the day we die and will be passed on to oncoming generations. Cell phone is a device that has been created with no end. So, overall in my opinion cell phones do more good for humans than bad.