When I started this cellular communications project. I was very focused on trying to prove that cell phones are bad. I saw people all over the Community College campus with their heads down, their headphones on or their phones to their ears. No one seemed to be “here” anymore. Everyone was involved in their own world that others weren't invited into, and they seemed to prefer that. I wanted to know why. Why were so many people content to engage so much with their phones and so little with the people around them? I'm not saying I'm innocent in all this. I'm guilty of texting and walking down a busy hallway, responding to a message while speaking face-to-face with another, and excusing myself from a conversation to answer a phone call. As much as I wish I didn't do all these things, sometimes it's hard to stop. It seems so often that we don't even think about our actions, especially when it comes to texting, that it has become a habit. We hear this vibration or ringing and it produces this feeling of needing to look, of needing to check in, to respond, to see if anyone is trying to talk to us and respond. My question is: why? So I started researching our interactions with cell phones. I knew cell phones couldn't be that bad, after all, they give us the ability to stay in touch with people we wouldn't otherwise be able to. Cell phones also allow us to transmit information to each other quickly, almost instantly and at any time. But even with these seemingly good qualities, I began to wonder: Is it good to be connected so instantly, at all times, with so many people? So I created a survey to see what my classmates who were in college and who used cell phones thought. their own communications via cell phones. After completing the survey...... middle of paper ...... former explores relationships, texts. " McClatchy - Tribune Business News May 9, 2009. ProQuest. Web. November 21, 2013. Rice, Alexandra. " Tired Students don't sleep to text. " The Chronicle of Higher Education 58.14 (2011). Academic OneFile. Web. November 21, 2013. Robinson, Sherry and Hans Anton Stubberud. " Communication preferences among university students. " Academy of Educational Leadership Journal 16.2 (2012). Academic OneFile. Web. November 21, 2013. Silverhart, Todd A., PHD “SMS is here to stay.” LIMRA's Market Facts Quarterly (2013): 57. .Tarter, Steve . “The cell phone revolutionizes communication.” Knight Ridder Tribune Business News: 1. July 16, 2005. ProQuest Web November 21, 2013. “SMS Etiquette, 2013. LexisNexis Academic Web... 2013.