I Have Too Many Cell Phones

We use a cell phone for every reason and for every excuse known to man.  We have a personal cell, a work cell, and some of us may have a cell for extra backup.  Were does the madness stop?  Apparently, we haven’t reached that place yet.

The cell phone craze began slowly during the 90s, and as with a small snowball rolling down hill it becomes larger.  The mushroom affect and the gravitational pull, create a huge rolling mountain of snow.  This is how we created a huge mountain of cellular activity and access.  Today, more than 1 billion people have cell phone handsets.

Today, we all have them; even our children now carry cell phones.  They use them to play games; we use them to stay in touch with everyone under the sun.  The many models available today from Motorola, Sprint, Nextel, and Nokia just to name a few, offer so many features that there is one for every customer.

If we need internet connectivity, there’s a phone with this feature.  If we need text messaging, we now have this as standard fare.  What about a camera phone?  Got those, too.  In fact, you can buy cell phones that double as webcams, digital cameras, web access devices, and even music can be downloaded and stored there.

The manufacturers continue to invent, and we continue to buy.  To the point, that sometimes we don’t know which phone is ringing.  This is a clear indication of “cell phone addiction”; one to three, you’re ok.  Anymore, and you have a real problem.

So, as we continue to roll through the age of information revolution, and the technology we have access too continues to improve and create more opportunity, we will continue to see situations where we simply have too many cell phones!