Cell Phone Obsession or Addiction?

Do you have a cell phone addiction...or is it just an unhealthy and dangerous obsession?

There is a new religion out there. It's the worshipping of the almighty cell phone. People put it before their jobs, before their family, before safety and before common sense.

No matter where you look nowadays, it seems that most people have a cell phone. As you walk through stores and public places it seems that people are talking to themselves. Oh yeah...they are using a bluetooth headset and are actually talking to someone on the phone! Sometimes I actually believe that they are talking to me. It is hard to tell.

When I see my rural mail carrier talking on the cell phone while delivering the mail, police officers talking on their cell phones while on duty, truck drivers trying to steer their large trucks around a corner with one hand because the other has a cell phone in it, I can't but think that they are not doing the job that they are paid to do. How can they when they are devoting their attention to talking on the phone instead of doing their job or worse yet texting.

Is the employer of these people getting a honest days work from these individuals? I think not! If you are a honest person, you should do your job which you are being paid to do. The time spent on the cell phone could be put to good use for the betterment of your employer and perhaps get you a raise instead of fired!

Because most cell phones have a built in camera, your privacy is also being invaded. Videos and pictures taken from cell phones end up on the Internet and on You Tube. You may never even know that the picture or video with you in it has been posted.

Phillip Sherman, who left his cell phone at a Fayetteville, Ark. McDonald's, is suing McDonald's because the inappropriate photos of his wife on the cell phone ended up on the Internet. Where will it end.

Not all cell phone owners are irresponsible. There are many responsible cell phone owners. They pull over and stop while driving to talk, use telephone manners when taking a call in the presence of others, don't let it interfere with their job, and turn them off when attending church or funerals.

Please use caution with your cell phones. Think about the actions that you take while using your cell phone so that it doesn't endanger others or hurt them in any other way.