Texting While Driving.

Have you been on your cell phone?

  Lately one of the biggest issues on the road are people texting on their cell phones while driving. Especially teens and young adults are abusers of this. They aren't being cautious about what's happening on the road. Mostly they're just worrying about what's going on tonight and who kissed who.

Talking while driving is illegal, and yet everyone is still abusing the privilege of having a cell phone. They are still talking on it, and even when being fined are not following the law. Why bother banning texting when the same thing is going to happen. The only thing we'll be doing is driving more money into the government’s pocket. Let’s just face it; no one follows the laws when it comes to driving.

Texting has become a pastime. Kids cannot do anything without their cell phones with them. Everywhere there are rules about having cell phones on like the hospital, movie theatre, and schools. Does it stop anyone? NO! You can drive down the road and you will see at least (but usually more) one person talking on their phones. In drive thru's especially you see people texting and talking, and as they drive away you can just imagine that they are going to continue to text and talk all the way to their destination.

Cell phones. Were they really a good invention? Have we all lost touch with reality? Do people really even communicate person to person anymore? Even at work you will find people texting about things rather than taking the time to find you and talk to you. You find friends and family resorting to texting to actually communicate with you. Don't you find it easier to let someone down, or even be mean over a text? In reality if you were face to face most people don't have the guts to actually treat someone the way they do over a text message.

Really, I’d say that we the American people are failing as a whole. We are downgrading ourselves as a community, as a county, as a state, and as a country. Yes, we are far in technology, but we have lost touch with ourselves. Game systems, cell phones, laptops, and iPods, all ways to surround yourself with technology. Unfortunately, we are overweight, lazy, procrastinators. This is the majority. This is the new millennium. This is it.

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