I'm gonna have to get back to you on that.  I really need to sort out my thoughts.  :)

I think cell phones are good in case of emergency; however, they do disrupt bees' signals. Therefore I think that maybe people should use them only for emergencies and not for extra stuff that you can do on a computer anyway.

Hi, We don't use a Cell phone. I have just heard they are not very healthy.

I have a cell phone, and I've found it really comes in handy. HOWEVER, that does not make it okay to be talking all the time AND TEXTING DURING PLAY PRACTICE!! *deep breath* Sorry, rant--my friend was doing that the other day, and it made me angry. 

I think they are the same as telephones in some ways. Is it wrong to talk with your friends on the home phone? Is it considered unhealthy?

I think the only problem with them is that they are so often missused. Driving while talking on a cellphone not only endangers your life, but the lives of those around you.

And texting is fine, as is emailing, as long as you don't put it above other people, such as interrupting if someone's talking to you and answering a text.

Well, that's opinion! :):)

I have a cell phone, but I only use it to contact my parents when I really need to. I occasionally text my dad as well, but he would never admit it. I try to use it as little as possible, but I think that they are a good way to contact someone if you really need to.

All the kids at Hebrew school seem to have them. I don't. :( Don't really want one, but then everyone would look over my shoulder and beg for a turn even though they have their own...yeah.

I got a cell phone as an early 13th b-day present. I use it only to call my parents and older sister when I need to and the only people I text (and I don't text that much at all) are my parents and sister as well. I hardly ever carry it around. I does come in handy alot, like when I get lost, which I do all the time.

Cell phones cause brain damage. Regular phones, however, do not. People should never talk on their cell phones while driving.

I have one. And I think it should be allowed in public when its not an emergency. How will buisness people comminicate without a cell phone (e.g Blackberry)? Or how will a daughter tell her mother where she is?

Rude is when someone is talking on the phone to someone else in the middle of someone's conversation about something that really doesn't need to be discussed at that moment. Understandable is when it isn't gossip, or frilly things like those. Like if there's been a change in plans or a relative who lives far away just wants to say hi or something. You know?

Cell phones do make it hard to develop personal relationships. Because people tend to say things they would never say in real life on a cell phone. Its just to save the trouble and shame. Like telling secrets. You can't tell if someone is going to laugh at your secret if you are texting them. But then, when you're with that person in real life, it's hard to really just to talk to them because you didn't build an authentic relationship.

Sorry if that's a lot!

I'm on the same time as Kinaya!

Wow!  That's a lot of posts in just three days!  I'm bewildered, baffled, humbled, amazed, ecstatic, jubilant, etc.

OK, I'm over my paralysis.  Now my opinion now that most have posted their own. (I didn't earlier because I didn't want to create a subconsious predjudice with my post.  People need to be open-minded--or closed-minded, I guess--to have a good debate.  Sorry, when your mom teaches college-level psychology, it tends to rub off on you a little. Also, it would have put Admin. to sleep reading because it would be so long!)

Anyway, my view is that the cell phone is a handy tool, but our generation misuses it.  Most teenagers that I know would rather talk on the phone to a friend then talk to the one walking home from the bus with them who had just been talking to them and then that above-mentioned teenager says that they need to call someone, it's urgent, then just gossip to their boyfriend about nothing in paticular!!!!!!!!!!  Arrggggggghhhhhh!

Sorry, that particular friend is my source of constant grievence.  The above actually happened, and later she told me that she broke up with that self-same boyfriend through text messages.  Text messages!  It blows my mind. However, that does bring me to my answer to my question on whether cell phones interfere with social interactions.  Anyway, I'll end here, as I am probably boring all of you out of your minds with my rant about my cell-phone-obsessed friend.