I don't think adults realize just how essential having a cell phone or a laptop is for teenagers in today's society. Sure, when you were our age, you wrote letters and called each other's house phones. Maybe texting and Facebook messages have made us lazy, but that's how we communicate. That's who we reach each other, tell each other secrets, and deliver news. It's so much easier to send a mass text then to call 20 people. With texting, it doesn't matter if they're busy at that particular moment. The next free minute they have will be spent checking their phone, reading that message.
So yes, we do NEED our phones and our laptops. Congratulations on being born before the Internet generation. Would you like a gold star or a cookie?
