I believe cell phone have impacted the relationships people have with each other. People no longer have to hone their social skills in person because they get most of their human interaction through text. I believe this is particularly troublesome when it comes to job interviews as an individuals face to face interaction won't be as good as they were maybe 15 years ago. Phones make it easier to schedule and set up events, but once the people show up to the event they tend not to talk to anyone they didn't come with or know. You can't truly sense emotion through a cell phone, and people will often avoid try to avoid awkward situations and just talk over the phone, making it more difficult to read people. So cell phones make people more awkward, less emotionally sensitive, and antisocial.
When it comes to Celebrity Culture the word privacy doesn't really come to mind. Their everyday lives are publicized and they can't do anything without everyone knowing. In the case of Justine Sacco this appears to be true because she made one disrespectful tweet and got her own taste of celebrity culture. Not a good one either. She essentially became a celebrity and was the most talked about topic on Twitter at one point. This taste of celebrity culture pretty much ruined her life as she got fired and everyone in the world thinks she's a racist. This shows that anyone could become a celebrity, sometimes against their will and not in a positive aspect. So you should be more careful about what you put on the internet.
I agree with what you said about how phones could make it a problem to have face to face conversations. I also agree that it can be hard to sense emotion through text which is why we need to try to not use our phones as much as we do.
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