More then anything cell phones have had a great impact on my generation, along with many others.A recent Washington Post article points out that there are more cell phones than there are people (Cecilia Kang 1). It’s impossible to escape the fact that we as a society are dependent on cell phones. Walking out of class every day I witness my peers glued to their cell phones, just sitting there waiting to go to class. Our dependency on cell phones gets worse every generation. The older generations are very unfamiliar with cell phones as a whole. They usually only have cell phones to make frequent calls or conduct searches. But our generation is completely dependent on our cell phones. We use our cell phones to go on twitter, Facebook, or instagram, which are very popular apps. It would be hypocritical for me to say that I’m not dependent on my phone because I am. However, I do believe that cell phones are doing more harm than good, such as destroying the English language.

Cell phones have many negative effects in our generation. One of the most important negative aspects is it completely murders spelling and grammar. Before there was a full keyboard on any phone they had the regular ABC which was under the number one. People would have to repeatedly hit one of these numbers to get one letter, which was a pain to deal with. This is where we started to murder the English language. We started texting 2 instead of to, also started saying b instead of the word be. However, there are people like David Crystal who disagree with this claim. He believes that cell phones aren't actually murdering spelling and grammar, but are actually having an opposite effect.  He states that abbreviations have been around for hundreds of year, so it’s only normal to abbreviate. However, there’s a difference between abbreviating all the time and doing it every once and a while.