While the media is inundated with updates on the latest in the field of mobile technology like smart or multimedia phones, a more fascinating and frightening aspect is how cell phones have changed the face of communication.
There are more people preferring to speak through various mobile applications than have a plain face-to-face talk. Even close-knit families are facing the heat of technological innovations as individual members of the dying unit talk more with each other while in further peripheries than the closeness of a drawing room and in person.
People are exchanging unwanted day-to-day information in a far-frequent manner that is required like I am eating, watching, playing or plain breathing. A lot of unpleasant information including divorce finds easier via-media through the nuances of technology and maybe, even blind dating the end of which results in varied crime statistics including death.
A large prospective cohort study of cell phone use and its possible long-term health effects was launched in Europe in March 2010. This study, known as COSMOS, enrols approximately 250,000 cell phone users of age 18 or older and will follow them for 20 to 30 years. There are mixed reports on whether spending more hours on the cell phone is bad or good for health.
There is also interesting interpersonal data that you can collect through mobile conversations ? for example how the talks tend to get longer when it is an incoming call, or how you will blabber more when the phone bill is being paid by an external source, miscommunication through emoticons and the easily confusable SMS language and most importantly, how people will only attend to calls that are of use to them and rarely return a call that calls for responsibility or an odd job like charity.
In a new report entitled ?The Mobile Consumer: A Global Snapshot,? research company Nielsen looked at consumer behaviour, device preference and usage in 10 different countries, including the US, UK, Australia, China, India and South Korea. This is interesting as cell phone is more a style statement and sometimes used to just create an impression to the outside world of your connectivity to it, often a sum of the various psychological complexes the user suffers from. I have known people pulling out a mobile phone and talking in the air to avoid a conversation with a person walking into their personal human network range with enthusiasm.
Lesser number of people are using up their grey matter as the glittering gizmo in their hand is the only thing that can memorise all things including your spouse?s birthday. And if the little wonder falls into water or gets stolen, God bless the money in your ATM credit or even personal information about your existence. We?ve reached a stage where people can live without their closest contact but not this small device. Youngsters who have found ways to forge it into exams and riders who know how to escape even an attentive traffic cop while animating in hectic conversations end up with untold road rage.
According to Silicon India, the total number of cell phone subscriptions worldwide has been estimated at 5 billion. The mobile phone usage report of 2011 by GSMArena, points out that in some places, more people use their phone as a wakeup alarm than they do to make calls. More people use music recognition in North America than in any other place on Earth.
Researchers at the University of Michigan have found that the cell phone use is ubiquitous, and socially contagious, too. People are more likely to pull out their phones to check their text messages or email if they?re with someone who has just done the same, the study found.
Interestingly, for everything, including thinking and feeling, we have started to rely on a handset. Excessive mobile usage, sure, is making a lot of us immobile!
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Category: Opinion
Source: http://postnoon.com/2013/03/10/a-mobile-that-makes-us-immobile/113321
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