Kevin+A.

Considering my age and the world we live in today, I think its safe to say that I grew up around technology. Arguably the most important piece of technology I have, my cell phone was first introduced to me when I was 17 years old. I was entering my freshman year of college and since I was going away from home, my parents thought it necessary to get a cell phone. It was around that same time, freshman year of college, that I received my first laptop. Although, I do find it necessary to mention that there was a desktop in my home all throughout high school. Getting back to my cell phone, a few years ago, my cell phone was important but not as important as it is today. Having a full-time job and being in graduate school, it is imperative that I have a constant form of communication. I learned to use my cell phone but by diving right in. Learning how to operate the device on the go; just playing around with different features eventually got me to figure things out. Although I say that I first got a cell phone my freshman year of college, it was not until 2nd semester. The 1st semester of college, I did not have a phone. The experience that i went through not having a phone was excruciating to say the least. I felt a sense of disconnect with the world without a constant form of communication. I was forced to email as much as possible and borrow my roommate's phone ever so often to try and keep up with those dear to me. This of course was not sufficient. On top of that, there was also a social stigmatization I endured for not having a cell phone. This I believe was due to the age we live in; people and their technologies are inseparable now more than ever. From the point in which that experience ended, i vowed to never go a day without have a phone and I have maintained that promise to myself ever since.