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Vehement Anti-Cell Phone Guy Finally Caves into the use of cell-phones. As with other pieces from The Onion, parody and satire guide the writing. But none-the-less, a friend of mine passed along "I'm surprised they knew me well enough to write this article about me..."

After calling the device "the item single-handedly responsible for the erosion of our nation's social and cultural foundation" for close to a decade, Jason Whiting gave in to social pressures this weekend and bought a cell phone.

Personally, I have found the cell phone of great value as I have sought to connect w/members of the campus community, family, and a larger base of people while on campus and/or on the road. Particularly, during times of last minute familial, ministry-related, and medical decision making. As a matter-of-fact, a couple close to us underwrote our family's cell phone plan so that we could be in touch when health issues arose (by-the-way: I have not had an episode since Easter and have not had a major episode since July 2004).

Would love to hear what you think about cell phone subculture that has become mainstream as growing number of people go cell phone only.