What do you think of kids with cellphones?

"lol"

literally, a voice says the words "elle-oh-elle" it's like -_-

Payhphones are almost extinct and landlines are becoming more and more rare (they're even taking payphones out of schools). Sorry Luddites, but cell phones are here to stay and will only be more common. When I was a kid, we were taught in school to know how to use the phone wherever we were to call the police or a trusted grown-up if we were in danger. I feel that a cell phone only makes this easier.

This doesn't mean you give your kid a new iPhone 5... that old but perfectly functioning Nokia sitting in your kitchen drawer that you had with a contract a few years ago will be more than adequate.

I think it's despicable. Parents are idiots that just want to keep the kids "out of their hair". They've stopped being parents and are instead being "pals that pay for everything". I can remember when it was 'Phone privileges' that you had to work to keep, NOT every kid having a "smartphone". It's completely ridiculous. Everywhere you go. For example: A dad brings his daughter, probably 12, and 4 of her friends to a baseball game. They are all between 9 and 12 years old. Do they watch the game? NO. They're on stupid effing Facebooks and Twitter the whole time. Why even waste the money? And it's like that literally everywhere you go. Heck, even a lot the so-called "adults" are all sitting there screwing with their damn phones. Even DRIVING down the road.

I get that technology is useful and all, but it needs to STAY as an ACCESSORY NOT an INHERENT DEPENDENCE. These kids are growing up with a phony sense of social structure, and they're staring at little letters on screens ALL THE TIME. Get a degree in Optometry, it's sure to cash in 20 or 30 years, if society as we know it even makes it that far, which is unlikely, considering the feeble minded, BS standards of unprincipled living people are espousing.

Some are to young.

some kids need them. im not talking like a 5 yr old with an iphone. more like kids who hang out outside or go places with their friends often that need to get ahold of their parents having a pre-paid phone. but honestly (at least in my opinion), if your kids (no matter or their 6 or 16) are going anywhere without you, they should have a phone on them

I could understand a prepaid simple phone. But a lot of kids have droids and Iphones and are on Facebook with them constantly. I think a lot of parents don't have any control.

lots of pre-paid services have droids and smart phones. there's a little girl down the street from me that has a droid, but she has virgin moble.

If a kid is getting a phone just for emergencies and talking to their parents I don't see the need for any
kind of smart phone.

sometimes, that all you can find. i know when i went to look for my oldest daughter a phone, and the closest thing i could find to a simple phone was a rumor touch.