These days, a cell phone is used for various proposes. Making a call and sending a text massages are the very basic cell phone. People listen to music, watch TV and movies and take pictures with a cell phone. Thus, it has long   been that we consider a cell phone as a necessary thing. Through this change, we have had more convenient lives, but there happens to be many problems against us. Some peolple use their cell phones so frequently, even for unnecessary purposes, that they are in touble with their cell phone bills. These people are cell phone addicts, who feel very nervous when they don't have a cell phone wth them, which usually happens among teenagers. However, we should help them check their cell phone use in their twenties, for they are the first generation using cell phones from their teens. Thus The Islander asked 200 students at CNU, Cheju National University about their cell phone usage.

 

 

 01. When did you use the cell phone?

Among 200 students, 0.5 percent students said they started using cell phones from the time they were in elementary school, and 12.3 percent started from middle school, Students who started using cell phones when they entered university were 34.5 percent, and 52.7 percent of the students started high school. This tells that cell phone use among students in high school was very popular from the end of the 1990's to he begginning of the 2000's



02. How much do you for your cell phone, and who pays the bill?

    




Thirty-six percent of answered that their cell phones bills are over 30,000 won, and 38.9 percent of students pay 50,000 won per month. About students paying huge cell phone bills, 13.3 percent of students are paying over 80,000 won and 5.4 percent of students are paying over 100,000 won. Surprisingly, these cell phone bills are mostly paid by parents, at around 58.6 percent. 20.7 percent of the students said they pay thieir bills with their parents' support and only 19.2 percent of the students pay their bills by themsleves. Other students are paying their bills thanks to acquaintances(0.5%) or by some other means(1%) .



03. Do you think you are a cell phone addict?


     
According to the result of the self-test of cell phone addiction, 49.8 percent of the students depend upon a cell phone, and 35.5 percent students depend upon a cell phone excessively. Only the 14.8 percent use a cell phone properly. 



      We commonly can see pelple who fix their eyes on a cell phone and don't pay attention to others around them. Some uses cell phones all the time, in buses or theaters, others do so while driving or going everywhere. Cell phones are prodused to make our lives convenient, but we are controlled by them and feel nervous without them. Remember the times when we didn't have cell phones. Did we feel inconvecienced or uneasy? Rather, our life with cell phones seems inconvenient so that we lose our own time thanks to them.





    

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