A report by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said there were about six billion cell phone subscriptions at the end of 2011-roughly one for 86 of every 100 people. Up to now, this number has continued to increase dramatically. This proves certainly that cell phone affects our society more strongly and more deeply in many aspects. No one can deny that cell phone is playing a very important and necessary role in our society because it not only helps us to keep contact with everyone but also provides us a great source of entertainment. Therefore, it is a common scene to see everybody keeps his /her ear attached to a cell phone. But in spite of all its benefits and plus points mobile phone has very dangerous and destructive effects on our society. The purpose of this essay is to discuss 3 main negative effects of cell phone which must be concerned: waste of time, money, distraction and health problems.
The first negative effect of cell phone on our society, and also a very common one, is that you can waste a lot of your time and your money if you can’t leave your cell phone for any second. For example, there are many people are wasting lot of their time in sending unnecessary messages to one another, or calling just to say some non-sense stories or gossip through their cell phones. This is totally a waste of time and money. In addition, if you are addicted to the Internet or playing game and you want to surf the net or play game at anytime, you will have to pay fee for services or applications on your cell phone and this may cost a lot of your money. There is one more reason for many people to waste more and more money on this high-tech gadget is that a cell phone can show how up-to-date and fashionable you are, so many people are ready to spend a large amount of money to catch last technological fashion of cell phones without any consideration. Of course, this is not good at all.
The second negative effect, the