“Ding. Ding. Ding.” “Julian, turn your phone off at the dinner table,” Annoyingly yelled his mother. Ever since the invention of cellphones, the people of today’s generation lives have been changed dramatically. People’s lives have been affected by cell phones because they are a huge distraction and also causes some people to be anti-social.

Cell phones have been a huge distraction when it comes to priorities and education. For example, Jane, a crazed-texting-machine-teen, is on her phone 24/7, getting distracted from what is really important. Jane’s mother tells her to go get her sister from soccer practice in 30 minutes while she goes grocery shopping. “Whatever you do, do not be late and do not forget”, Jane’s mother told her while Jane nodded her head slowly while nodding and staring at her phone like a brainwashed zombie. After her mother left, Jane sits on her phone and catches up on all the new gossip, new fashion, and all the cute boys. An hour passes before she realizes she forgot to go get her sister. Teens like these lives are drastically changing. In addition, cell phones have even affected the classroom. Sneaky students that text during school, tweet during school, or ‘selfie’ on Snapchat during school, muffle out the teacher and not hearing a word they say. Not paying attention because of a little piece of technology can make a huge impact on your life when you’re not getting to walk across the stage and get a high school diploma.

Also, cell phones are beginning to make more and more people anti-social. For example, cell phones can be as addicting as drugs, or even more, losing all face-to-face communications. Which not only affects our lives, but the generations to come as well. In addition, being antisocial is bad for both physical and mental health. Phones are bad for physical health because if spending all time in a room alone with a cell phone, there is no physical activity, causing obesity. Cell phones also affect our life mentally. Referring back to my example with the addiction, phones make us lose face-to-face communications, because of the cool, texting slang.

Whether it’s a phone going off at the dinner table, being a distraction, or making people anti-social, in a matter of years, the world will be completely affected because of a little piece of plastic filled with wires and a glass screen.