Interview with former Johnston County Sheriff

John Smith, former Johnston County sheriff who is now a pastor for Rock Harbor Church, said he has seen a growing paradigm of cell phone use as a continuous form of communication that people do not want to relinquish, even when on the road.
“There’s just an explosion of cell phone use,” Smith said. “Everybody you see now has a cell phone- well, not everybody, but three out of every 10 drivers I see are talking on cell phones.”Smith attributes this incessant use of cell phones, even while driving, to increasingly active families busy with after-school extracurricular activities, like sports and band. To maintain the family-schedule as a cohesive unit, family members need the reliable and easily accessible communication that the cell phone encompasses.