Cell Phone Etiquette

The argument that the author was trying to make was that in today’s society cells phones are becoming a rude annoyance in public. The author believes that although cell phones definitely have a place in our busy society, people are abusing their convenience. Annie Nakao argued that people are using their cell phones everywhere, and usually are rude and do not consider the people around them. Annie Nakao makes her argument by giving specific examples in her daily life that she has experienced. By adding her own personal experience and annoyances, her argument is presented more effectively. Her opinion on the topic is very clear, and convincing.

Yet although I agreed with many of the arguments that she presented in her article I believe that she was exaggerating the moral effects it has on today’s society. I do believe that cell phones have majorly impacted today’s society, but I do not think that, “People abuse cell phones so much, it’s become a moral issue”. There is always an exception to the rule, and there have been occasions where people have been rudely talking on their cell phones, yet these situations are few and far between. It is unfair to put all the people that have cell phones in a category of being rude and disrespectful.

I was also very interested to read many of the statistics that were presented in the article about cell phone users. For example I was surprised to read that, “mostly women who now make up the majority of American cell phone users-are yet to be made in a country that lags far behind Europe and Asia in per-capita cell phone sales”. Yet I was not surprised to read that their studies showed that, “those who don’t own cell phones tend to be more annoyed” by cell phone disturbances than people who own cell phones.