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Should teenagers have cellphones?

mfleury87 · 2010-05-21 06:31:22

I graduated in 2005, and I had my first ever cellphone my senior year-- my parents always we're against the idea of me having a cellphone until my senior year. I had a job during my high school where I could have paid for my cellphone, but didn't want to spend money on a cellphone bill. Not only that but I probably had to have a co-signer as well, but what really bugs me-- is teenagers having cellphones.Granted the world has changed in five years, today I downloaded the PenPal app for my iPhone, and the way it sets up, your messages are sent randomly to anyone around the country, and world. I thought it was a neat App and I especially wanted to write foreign people. Well I got a message from a 12 year old in class. A 12 year old with a cellphone!I don't know I grew up in a different world, and it sure has changed in the past five years, but I just don't see why a 12 year old should be having a cellphone! It's ridiculous if you ask me, what do you guys think?

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#101 Avechbobo

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A lot of this crap today is based on Respect and how much respect you have for your parents. so chances are I wont really have to worry much if I can teach my kids how to respect me.xhellcatx

Actually, a lot of this crap today and in earlier times is and was based on parents just demaaanding respect and not showing any to their children. If you just demand respect and do with your kids what you said you would, you probably won't get any. And you'll deserve it.

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#102 xTheExploited

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I got my first phone when I was 12. I think most kids by the time they start going out on their own to the movies or whatever with their friends should have a mobile phone and most of the time this starts around the age of 12 and entering Middle School. Its mostly about safety, its a messed up world out there and the easier you can contact someone you trust the better.

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#103 EMOEVOLUTION

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Its mostly about safety, its a messed up world out there xTheExploited

The world is not as messed up as most would have us believe. Our culture of media is extremly negative, and so people start to think the worst of things.

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#104 xTheExploited

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[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]Its mostly about safety, its a messed up world out there EMOEVOLUTION

The world is not as messed up as most would have us believe. Our culture of media is extremly negative, and so people start to think the worst of things.

I'm sure you'd say that if your child was kidnapped.

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#105 EMOEVOLUTION

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[QUOTE="EMOEVOLUTION"]
[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]Its mostly about safety, its a messed up world out there xTheExploited

The world is not as messed up as most would have us believe. Our culture of media is extremly negative, and so people start to think the worst of things.

I'm sure you'd say that if your child was kidnapped.

You have no idea how my reactions would be. I'm not a typical person. Certainly I would feel bad, but that doesn't mean I would ignore all the good that goes on the world. I would not lose focus on the big picture and that is without the bad we have no way to feel good.. we need contrast. If one bad thing happens to me.. there are millions of good things happening for somebody else.

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