These days, it’s more difficult to find someone who doesn’t own a cell phone than someone who does. So obviously, there are lots of reasons why cell phones are good things. They help us keep in touch, they point us in the right direction when we’re lost, they keep track of our apointments, they let us surf the web, and they provide countless other services that help us feel connected to the rest of the world.
 
 So there’s really no need to expound upon why cell phones are wonderful, but despite all the positive things they do for us, there are several reasons that cell phones are downright annoying. Here are three of them.
 
 They tend to make people yell. For some reason, it seems like at least once a day, you come across someone on a cell phone in public (usually in a small or quiet space) who feels the need to yell into their telephone in order to make the person on the other end hear them.
 
 They allow people to get ahold of you any time. Sure, you can ignore a call on your mobile, but then you have to feel the pang of guilt associated with deliberately ignoring whoever is calling. Unlike when you’re just not home and legitimately miss the call. And this point goes both ways, for example, when you call somone on their cell, and they answer, but immeidately ask if they can call you back because they don’t have time for you right now.
 
 They inevitably ring at the exact moment you do not want them to. Whether the phone is yours or someone else’s, like at a movie or a lecture or during an important one-on-one conversation, it seems as though a cell phone interrupts moments where they have no place. And to top it off, that ring is guranteed to be obnoxious.

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