Cell phone
It is popular for everyone to have a cell hone. By having a cell phone, we can be convenient to communicate with friends and send messages all the time. When I have something to talk to my friends I usually use my cell phone instead of using telephone. Is it the trend to people to have a cell phone? I think t is not. Just take me for example, now I get accustomed to use cell phone, even if my cell phone doesn’t ring, I still take it very often. I think it is not a good habit to get used to have a cell phone and rely on it. I remembered when I didn’t have a cell phone, I called my friends because of some emergency but now I call my friends just because I want to talk. It is really a bad habit, it is not only waste much money but also waste much time. Maybe I should change my attitude to have a cell phone.
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Your first couple of sentences are verbose: they have too many words. You can say the same thing like this: "Cell phones are popular because they make it easy to communicate with friends." This sentence is only 13 words; your two sentences are 29 words. Learn to omit unnecessary words.
Examples of incorrect English usage:
1) "When I have something to talk to my friends" ==> "When I have something to say to my friends";
2) "Is it the trend to people" ==> "Is it a trend for people";
3) "Just take me for example, now I get accustomed to use cell phone, even if my cell phone doesn’t ring, I still take it very often." This is three sentences comma-spliced into a single grammatically incorrect monster. ==> "Just take me, for example. I have become accustomed to using a cell phone. Even if my cell phone doesn’t ring, I still take it very often."
4) "I remembered when I didn’t have a cell phone, I called my friends because of some emergency but now I call my friends just because I want to talk." It's almost never necessary to say "I remember(ed)" when you are recalling something like this in a story. ==> "When I didn’t have a cell phone, I called my friends because of some emergency, but now I call them just because I want to talk."
5) "It is really a bad habit, it is not only waste much money but also waste much time." ==> "It is really a bad habit. It is not only a waste of a lot of money, but also a waste of a lot of time."
6) "change my attitude to have a cell phone" ==> "change my attitude about having a cell phone".
Clear enough for business letters, but annoying because of the incorrect usages.
You have put your finger on one of the major problems in contemporary society. Not the cell phone, but the need that so many people seem to have to have one and to use it regardless of how much time and money it costs them. I have a cell phone strictly for emergencies, for business, and for personal convenience (namely, there isn't always a public telephone available when I need one, and even if there is one, it might be broken or busy or take a form of payment I don't have, e.g., a normal phone card or an IC card). But I hate to use my cell phone. I'm happy when it doesn't ring. Whenever it rings, I'm afraid that my wife is calling to tell me that our son is sick or hurt and in the hospital.
I also hate to chat on the phone with people I can talk to in person. I do spend a lot of time talking on Skype to my friend in Tokyo and to my mother and stepmother in the USA. Even that bothers me. My friend in Tokyo and I usually talk for an hour or two. Too long.
My cell phone came in handy when I was in the hospital two years ago, though. It was easier to answer that than to answer the phone next to my bed.
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