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Pros and Cons of Cellphones

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“In homes, in social settings, and at workplaces, where people once interacted with each other and engaged in actual conversation, silence has now taken over as everyone’s attention is dominated by their email, their text messages, and their social media.” Nowadays, many cannot imagine life without a cellphone. Yet, as much has cellphones have plenty of pros, they also come with a whole lot of cons. In what ways are cellphones changing the way we live today? According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, a cell phone is a small telephone that people can take with them and use outside their homes. To most though, a cellphone is more than just that. It is difficult to imagine that once, not even very long ago, cellphones were hardly used. The first cell phone was created by Martin Cooper on April 3rd, 1973. Cell phones are radio receivers and transmitters that use electromagnetic energy to send and receive information. Energy travels in waves. The distance from one wave to the next is the wavelength. Frequency is the amount of times the wave oscillates up and down per second. The higher the frequency, the more energy. Frequency is measured in Hertz. One Hz is one wavelength per second. Different electronical things are operated at different rates of hertz. At this point, the fastest connection runs at a 2.1 GHz (gigahertz) range-- that’s 2.1 billion wavelengths per second. Cell phones use low radiation called radio frequency (RF). A cell phone sends and receives

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