Mobile phone technology, more than any other, has the ability to envelop its users in a sphere of perpetual contact and instant access, touching every aspect of their daily lives.
In analysing the meaning and significance of mobile phone use in the everyday lives of users, three discrete yet interrelated questions arise:
The co-configuration of the technology and the user have led to the production of new needs in terms of use, and this has had a profound effect on the ways users present themselves to others and conduct their social networks. The mobile has changed human capacity in terms of memory and concentration, whilst also producing new forms of emotional experiences such as duplicity and anxiety.
The overall consensus is clear; communication is essential for society to function on both macro and micro levels of interaction, and developments in communication technology have played an integral part in the rise of modern societies. The mobile allows us to communicate whatever we want, whenever we want to, with other people who possess telecommunication devices. This increases the number of people with whom we are able to communicate and the speed with which we can do it. “Network after network: you can virtually see the globe being encircled in a fine mesh of little connecting links.”
Meaningful human communication depends primarily on language, both spoken and written. Research into human interaction using communication technologies such as text messages and phone calls could consequently deepen understanding of how social actors negotiate and manage their everyday lives in contemporary society. Like for myself, I send daily 175 friends messages in morning and stay in daily contact with them, which would have been impossible through anyother method.
Mobiles have so practical usefull uses too like in Japan, mobile phone companies provide immediate notification of earthquakes and other natural disasters to their customers free of charge. In the event of an emergency, disaster response crews can locate trapped or injured people using the signals from their mobile phones or the small detonator of flare in the battery of every cell phone; an interactive menu accessible through the phone’s Internet browser notifies the company if the user is safe or in distress.
There are side effects too : like my wife will notify me on FB that dinner is ready and I sould comedown immedeately for the left overs will be gifted to the dogs :). While I am working on just the upper room. On ‘Face-Book’ we could go on for another discussion….!
Overall there is no doubt the mobile has changed our everday life for good or for bad.
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Good One very informative…
thanks 🙂