Has the Use of Mobile Phones Lowered Active Social Life and Has Become an Addiction?

Taking a photo and sending it out is easy and instant when you use a camera phone. A growing concern is the abuse of camera phones by teens you take nude/naked photographs of themselves. This obviously does does allow for healthy and normal social interaction. Many teens face criminal charges and psychological trauma that will most naturally adversely affect their present and future.
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“Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands — or worse, everyone’s hands, via the Internet — and leading to criminal charges”

“They were pretty graphic,” said sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Yehle. “I think they just do it to impress their boyfriends. When he breaks up, he ‘vents,’ in his words, by posting them. He apparently didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. He didn’t know it was illegal.”

“I just don’t understand why kids would do a stupid thing like that,” said Rochelle Hoins of Castle Rock, Colo., where 18 students in her twin sons’ middle school sent around nude pictures of themselves last year. “We did dumb things when we were kids, but not like that,”

“A person is in an unhealthy phase of obsessive and constant cell phone use. This may be caused by the newness of the device or by an emotional problem that makes them use the cell phone to isolate from others who surround them. Or, it might be that the increasing use of the cell phone by everyone else causes the person to get one of their own.”[[http://www.helium.com/items/1915501-why-cell-phone-are-an-anti-social-invention]]

More often than not; people use cellphones to pull themselves away from a crowd or ring themselves to get out of an uneasy situation/conversation where they have to confront themselves emotionally. Text has no tone; breaking up by thumb-text is so much easier than a face-to-face or phone conversation where you hear the crying and wailing. Real social interaction which forces you to develop an emotional conscience is thus inhibited.

[[http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2010/11/10/police-search-for-cell-phone-muggers-in-nyc/]]
Drivers,maids and homeless people have fancy cellphones now; cellphone robberies are common. And just like smuggled/stolen/fake designer wear fancy cellphones are everywhere. What carrying a gigantic expensive cellphone/Blackberry/Iphone does is make the average person a potential victim of a robbery,mugging or worse. All the functions of the cellphone thus become void.

[[http://www.jamaica-star.com/thestar/20100703/news/news1.html]] [[http://pakistancriminalrecords.com/2010/10/23/karachi-mobile-phone-van-robbers-collared-by-cid-from-shershah/]] [[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1383155/Mobile-phone-robbers-to-get-18-months.html]] [[http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Girl+of+14+is+gang-raped+after+chasing+mobile+phone+robbers.-a081673614]] [[http://latest-mobilephone.info/sc-couple-says-robbers-threw-them-in-river-naked.html]]

internet on cellphones comes at an exorbitant cost.
[[http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/CollegeAndFamily/RaiseKids/does-johnny-really-need-that-iphone.aspx]]

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Face to face communication is preferred over thumb-texting.
A constantly ringing phone/device can be a nag for workers and students alike.

Many kids and grownups feel that the cellphone is a leash they want to break away from; they keep their cellphones off to keep nagging parents from calling them 24/7 and to preserve their cellphone’s battery life.

Not all cellphones have trackers on them. People can always lie about where they are and what their doing. [[http://cellphonetrackers.org/]]

Studies continue to emphatically expose the adverse effects of cell phone radiation; without refutation.

[[http://www.truthaboutabs.com/cell-phone-damages-crotch.html]]

Tell that to all those crack callers I keep getting missed calls from. Badgering strangers or not is possible on both the internet and on a mobile. The difference is privacy policies and Cyber-laws protect the average internet browser; whereas, there are no protections for those being harassed on their cellphone.

And no I’ve tried the add to screen list option; the calls still come but the phone doesn’t ring and calls I ‘do’ want to receive are impeded.

all you need is a phone number; some creeps even dial in random numbers and then wait and see who picks up.

Cell phones are even more versatile than public payphones for those who change Sims often; so they don’t worry about call tracing. This is why cellphones are central to crime and terrorism.

Demo:
Get disposable phone; insert disposable Sim

Call anyone from anywhere.(fellow criminals, stalker target, person to blackmail etc)
Give phone to complete stranger or throw it in a trash bin; from which any random person can pick it up.

Avoid being traced.