Not only are they useful for staying in touch with everyday life, but they are also useful to have if you are in trouble. The impact of cell phones on today's youth is astronomical. All teenagers own a cell phone, they know how to use it and how it works. However, cell phones have become a problem for teenagers as cell phones develop and as teenagers love to use them. In education, students can use phones to take photos of notes and have the ability to look back at them when needed. So banning phones in school is a really idiotic idea. Students spend most of their day using technology anyway, so why not use it to your advantage? Today's teenagers can carry on a conversation that some adults can't understand. A conversation every day is fun because everything is abbreviated. For example, "UR lol @ me, IDKW" is written in slang and means "You're laughing out loud at me and I don't know why." It's just a way for lazy teenagers to text by typing less