Too much of the cellphone use is unecessary and misused.
Parents walking with their children on the street are focusing on their phones and not their children.
As much as we are trying to stop the Loshon Hora, cellphone is making it more rampant. If someone tells you something you immediately call someone to spread the “news”, whereas without the cellphone you would rethink it till you got home and then realize that it’s not something to talk about.
With cellphones, more children will end up needing some special ed services. Instead of remembering 5-6 items when going to the store, the parent gives them a phone and they call home to know what to buy. So no practical practice for memory which is important for any type of learning.
Written communication such as writing letters is almost obsolete.
Even if you call your parents 100 times a day from your cellphone it does not come to one visit. I read of a Buuby who said she’ll get rid of the phone so people will once again visit her.
So the list can go on and on.
People are not smart enough to realize that all phone conversations both cell and landlines are recorded. This is the way too many people arrested were very easily fingered.
…as it says in Pirkei Avos “Ayin Roah V’ozen Shomaas”….