Dealing with terrible phones and sharing them. The majority of American have given up their landlines in favor of cell phones. Kids have their own smartphones these days, and if they want to talk to their friends or a crush, they totally can without the embarrassing entanglements of phone use in the days of yore—no bad cordless phone reception if you move more than 10 feet away from the case, no tangled cords if the phone wasn’t cordless, and no parents picking up the extension to talk and embarrass. Of course, people text and stuff now instead of actually talking on the phone, but still—kids these days don’t know how good they’ve got it with the phone privacy.