<p>I had a cell phone in middle school…absolutely worthless. It was clearly only a distraction and what I gained out of it was minimal. The distractions, for that matter, easily outweighed the gains, and that’s why I consider it worthless, although, really, I should consider it worse. It was even stolen one time, and I had to go through a lot to finding the culprit and getting him suspended to give it back. I got it back, but without a sim card…</p>
<p>Now I never use a cell phone and if I ever have to communicate with anyone I do it face to face or through a messenger boy (or something like that). It really is important to feel like your in control of life, rather than feel that without a cell phone you can’t survive. If you feel like the latter, it only mean that a cell phone has truly taken over your communication life.</p>