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We are living in an age which is dominated by electronic devices
and now more than any other tech gadgets mobiledevices are playing
the most influential role in shaping the psychological as well as
physical being of modern man.Until few years before mobile phone
was said to replace many types of communications like trunk calls,
letters,telephonic communication through static land line phones,
etc. but with the advent of multimedia and Internet facilityon
mobile phone mobile technology evolved as formidable so as to
become a viable option even for manyfunctionalities earlier
attached with computing devices. Now to get in touch with your
email facility is as easy as toviewing a phone number in the
contact folder of your mobile. These enormous changes in the
technology front
revolutionized the mindset of people in regard to their relation
with everyday reality. Now we are more accustomedto depend on our
hand held device to communicate to our friends, family, relatives
and acquaintances rather thanencountering them physically. Words
and use of words are everything, there's hardly any need to relate
physicalexpression or body language and silence in between words
are just a sign of labor of expression rather than anyindication
toward a secondary meaning of the verbal or written words. If all
these delicate crisis of communicationare felt too much as a burden
of technological progress, you always have the option of conducting
video conferenceon your mobile screen just by using a compatible
handset and opting for the service feature from your network
andconnection provider. Just sitting in a distant island with a
state of the art mobile device and service package you canbe
connected with your people for days and months and years long. Just
sitting at your dinner table you can go onchatting with your
friends with the help of social networking. Every now and then over
the global interactive space ofInternet you can venture to meet and
share your ideas with a stranger and consequently all those strange
meetingplaces in the bus stop or at the corner of cafeteria are
simply irrelevant and involves more risks of wastage of timethan
the direct and cleverly fabricated as well as free space of
Internet. All these and many more factors are actingas potential
epicenter for the birth of new meaning to our individual as well as
social life which as conceived in ourpresent perception are
artifices of freedom and free association. Moreover the rigorous
business objectives andmechanisms of globalization are too apt to
convince us of the greatness and intensity of this unbound freedom
thatthe technology offers. How at one end we are experiencing new
dimensions of freedom and at the other end we areshackled by the
new hyper reality of technological innovations that would determine
the context in which we havemake our enquiry of how mobile
technology causes more social isolation.The freedom of choice and
social isolationThe freedom is the most frequently used word by the
theoretical advocates of globalization. We would zoom in ourfocus
on the real character of this freedom and how it through the
evolving market place of mobile technologycauses social isolation.
Like any goods in market driven consumer society the choice is huge
in respect of choosingelectronic devices. Moreover the market with
its evolution with technological innovations is apt to increase its
offersof new usefulness and corresponding technologies. Mobile or
cell phone being the most evolving and happeningzone for more than
a decade offers greatest variety of choice compared to other
categories of products. But thechoice being enormous and most
varied isn't it entirely driven by the producer companies? First
you areindoctrinated in the spell of new as well as unthought-of
brilliance which is likely to arouse your possessive ambitionand
with it almost the half of the work is done. In the next step the
technology would attain a higher social stigmaand would stir the
bottom of your heart with anguish over the pride and greed involved
in relation to its possession.Gradually the sweet spell of thinking
about the product would engulf you and one day you would end up in
buying
your so called dream device. But the spell is always there and
dream is continued with enough such milestones tofollow. The
freedom experienced under this spell is a hallucination in thinking
that you can replace all your naturalwishes and joys with
technological devices at your side. But in reality, you are losing
all your primary andprimordially acquired freedoms. In social place
the meeting and free association of individuals from various
familialor social places are steadily decreasing, almost to the
effect of replacing the many of the grounds of physicalcontact.
Mobile technology is driving your choice of your human contact and
relations. It is all database andnumbers which all are waiting for
your application to consume them and process them with least time
consumingexactitude. Can we at all call this a relationship or
human contact where all we are likely to do is to share
informationwith precise objectives like a robot? No doubt we all do
not actually do this through our high-end mobile devices andtry to
deal with our surrounding with the same emotion and empathy as in
real life but in doing so it becomesinsincere and falls in the
categories of games or feeble shows or almost takes the shape of
playing a role. Thustechnology makes fun of you without your
knowing it. From social networking to a graphic game of football,
fromonline astrologer to language classes, from video chat with
your shuffled friends to internet banking pranami to yourspiritual
guru, all are just on your mobile screen. By having all so easily
at your fingertips you have actually lost theessential bond with
them, the real value or meaning of each relation and thus you have
only the mobile threads with
everything in this world and in essence you are most isolated.
When we say that mobile technology causes socialisolation, to
understand the statement you have to start thinking from your
essential naked reality upon the earth and
juxtapose this theme beside your present situation.Actually the
consumerist greed that precedes the onset of many consumer devices
just as the mobile technologycauses social isolation. Only with our
conscious faculty of putting a barrier to the extreme level of use
of thesedevices we can take a step forward to put a stop to the
replacement of our sense of reality and it is crucial for ourhuman
values so as not to lose all our real bonds and earthly treasures
in the process of this camouflage andmockery.
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Mobile phones are rapidly developing these days. As the world
came to new technology generation, wecannot liv
e without mobile phones. However, many problems are appearing
caused by mobile phones.This essay will discu
ss some advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones.
There are some problems. Firstly, mobile phones cause social
probles. Many people who are using themobile ph
ones tend to want to have communications with other people than
chat with others face-to-
face. This is why misunderstanding is increasing more and more
and people can be isolated from theirsociety. Se
condly, there is medical problem either. According to a survey,
one doctor said that someonewho use mobile pho
nes all day is more higer probablity to have diseases such as
cancer than otherswho do not use phones not very
much. The most serious probles is mobile phones' addictiveness.
Itcauses a lot to especially young people. Addic
tiveness disturbs young people because they are hard
toconcentrate on their own studies.
On the other hand, there are some advantages to use mobile
phones. As people know, mobile phonesbrought ne
w technological world, so most people use it and take it. It is
one of the developestechnology, so it gives us conv
enience. For instance, if someone want to tel l something to
friend, theycan just call and tell. However, if they do not use
mobile phones, they would feel very uncomfortable.
In conclusion, there are both sides of using mobile phones. Of
course mobile phones bring someprobles, but we
can reduse using mobile phones to decline problems and it is
expected that moredavanced technological develop
ments will appear soon.
