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How Cell Phones are
Changing Our Society
I
would
not
be
wrong
in
stating
that
cell
phones
are
one
of
the
greatest
inventions
by
mankind.
Cell
phones
have
changed
the
way
world
citizens
communicated
and
expressed
themselves.
It
has
now
become
simple
and
affordable.
This
was
the
good
side,
but
the
bad
part is that it has led
to addictions and many diseases. The good and
the bad changes are two sides of the
same around you, on
your desk, others'
desks. Did you just press a button on your phone
to
check if you have received any
notification or a text? Are the others
around you busy texting, listening to
music or surfing on their phones?
You
want to know how has the cell phone changed our
society? That's
what I am going to
discuss in the following paragraphs.
Talking about how cell phones have
changed our society, a change is
measured or defined from a point of
time in the past to the current
point
of
time.
In
the
case
of
cell
phones
this
time
span
was
a
surprising
2-3
decades.
It
has
undoubtedly
gained
the
status
of
the
most famous gadget
today.
Cell Phones - A
Journey from Being a Luxury, To a Need, To
an Addiction!
Boon
:
Thank
God!
Graham
Bell
invented
the
telephone,
making
communication
simple!
The World
Has Become a Smaller Place
Got
a
friend
or
a
loved
one
who
has
moved
away
from
you?
It's
no
problem
staying
in
touch
with
them
anymore.
Calling
up
grandchildren
and
keeping
in
touch,
even
if
they
can't
meet
them
often
has
made
the
lives
of
Grandparents
easier.
Crossing
over
the
seven seas to speak to a loved one is
now child's play. The scene just
about
a decade ago was such where making international
calls was a
big
deal
and
a
matter
of
expense.
Cheaper
calls
have
made
communication more affordable and
efficient.
It is Easier to
Keep in Touch
Going
back
to
the
'days
of
landlines'
where
to
attend
an
important
call we had to
cancel our plans and wait back home instead. That
is
not
the
case
anymore.
A
cell
phone
has
made
communication
so
feasible that you can actually talk to
or at least say a
your
friends
every
single
day.
We
now
can
have
endless
video
conferences which was only tagged for
the affluent class just a couple
of
years ago.
Easy Access to
Knowledge
The Internet which
was previously limited to a computer, then graced
the
laptop
and
now
phones,
has
made
spread
of
knowledge
and
information easy and quick. Now who
needs the newspapers to know
about
what's happening
in
the
world? Your cell
phone
is your most
trusted and
portable encyclopedia.
No
More Letters - Just Texts
It
will not be wrong to say that writing letters
today has become an
ancient
practice.
What
people
now
do
is
to
simply
send
texts
or
emails
through
their
phones.
In
previous
times,
one
would
actually
spend a day or two
in structuring and completing a letter, then spend
extra money on mailing it and finally
waiting till the letter reaches the
desired
person.
People
from
our
generation
will
consider
this
as
a
strenuous activity.
One Stop Shop
Cell phones, especially Smart Phones
have everything you need! You
can
listen to songs, read books, access news, social
networking sites
and play games - all
on your phone. It has in fact changed our very
ways of life. From paying your parking,
food, shopping bills to credit
card
transactions,
measuring
temperature,
checking
the
weather
forecast
to,
taking
pictures
and
videos,
painting,
drawing,
playing
your favorite
instrument virtually, all this and much more is
what the
capacity of that little gadget
has.
Essential Source of
Spending Downtown
Phones
have practically become an essential source of
spending time.
When you have nothing to
do or no one is with you, all you need is
your phone to be your companion or the
special unit you can do an
activity
with.
Just
pick
up
your
phone
and
either
listen
to
songs,
watch
movies,
call
up
a
friend,
check
your
emails
or
your accounts,
click photos, and play
games. With all this and more why would one
need anything else?
Phone Numbers Have become Personal
Identities
Companies,
institutions, and organizations who once needed to
take a
customer's or a client's full
address to communicate with them, now
only
need
their
phone
numbers.
They
send
greetings,
invitations,
meeting
notifications
and
information
directly
on
your
phone.
So,
your
mobile number is your identity.
Curse
:
peace.
Graham Bell, thanks, but, No Thanks!
The
same
points
that
were
seen
as
a
boon
for
cell
phones,
can
also
been seen as a curse, if excessively
used or misused.
We Do No
Work/ We The People - are becoming
Lazier!
Now, we don't need
to go out to buy groceries to pay our bills, and
to
go
out
and
play.
All
we
need
is
a
cell
phone
and
we
can
get
the
groceries delivered at
home, our bills are paid on the dial of a number
and we now love to play soccer and pool
on our phones. Cell phones
have made
our lives simpler, but have made us lazier too.
Substitute for
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Not meeting your friends or family
face to face, is an easy possibility.
Because you interact with them every
day on Facebook. Both, you and
your
loved
ones
are
updated
with
whatever
is
happening
in
each
other's life, what are you anyway going
to talk about when you meet?