In today's era, we have lost the part of personal communication that evolved our society, where two or more people have a face-to-face conversation. However, our society is so quick to have a thread of messages back and forth that they consider it a complete conversation. Our Millennial generation and Generation Z are at the center of cell phones' negative effects on communication because they grew up with cell phone access literally at their fingertips. In the next pages we will take a closer look at the negative effects that occur with cell phone use today. The negative effects of cell phone use in communications are causing emotional, relational and educational problems in society. As a society we develop social anxiety, stress and frustration due to the negative emotional effects of cell phone use. Relationships are sometimes "made or broken" based on your interpretation of the text message. Text messages shouldn't have to be interpreted or decoded, they should be what they say and nothing more. Which also brings me to the fact that our text messages have lost the proper English that we tried to learn in the school systems. Personally, I believe that texting has stunted our mental and emotional growth when it comes to communicating and being in a relationship. We all agree that sometimes texting can be more convenient, but the younger generation claims it is the preferred way to communicate with other people. We chose to use texting as an attempt to convey our feelings, rather than an alternative way of having a verbal conversation where the other person can see the emotion behind the said context. In the newspaper article T... middle of paper... a short time, the sender begins to feel the anxiety and stress we talked about earlier. This type of stress and anxiety could be easily resolved if the two people had a face-to-face verbal conversation. (Maciel)Works CitedLuo, Shanhong. “Effects of texting on satisfaction in romantic relationships: The role of attachment.” Computers in Human Behavior, Volume 33. April (2014): 145-152. Print.Maciel Jamie. “Texting killed the phone call.” University Wire, February 24, 2014. ProQuest. Network. April 1, 2014. “Text Messages Affect Your Ability to Interpret.” New Targeted Service [Calgary] February 17, 2012. ProQuest. Network. 3 April 2014.Toribio, Elyse. “The effect of texting on grammar is debated.” The Record, August 13, 2012. ProQuest. Network. April 1, 2014Weisskirch, Robert. "Relationships and communications". Psychological Reports Volume 111. Number 1 (2012): 281:288. Press