Looks like the cordless phones we use now a days right?
But now lets take a look at the modern day cellphone that many of us use which look like this: Taking a look at both those cellphones we have clearly come a very long ways from where we started. New technology is what makes the society change, if we go back to when the cellphone was first invented in 1973 you can see all you can do on the phone is call someone. But even then the there weren't many wireless towers and you probably wouldn't be able to call across the country depending on if they had adapted to the new technology. But, looking at the new modern phones you can see that they have a keyboard for sending an SMS, a track pad or touch screen to go the different places on your phone and much more. There are way too many new features on cellphones that are hard to explain because of how complex they are. The main point I would like to address here is that the technology we discover every year that changes something on electronics is the thing that is leading us to major changes in our lives, society and in the world.
How many of know teenagers that use their land-line to call their friends, or even now go on the computer to talk to their friends? Not many right? Just a year ago MSN was still popular among teenagers because not a lot of them had cellphones. That is because cellphone plans were still a bit expensive along with the phones. But, when plans and phones began getting cheaper near the end of the year everyone all of a sudden "needed" a cellphone. It wasn't because they wanted it, it was because they "needed" it. Anyways back to msn, everyone I knew would make plans about when to go on msn and have group conversations and talk about what happened during the day or what happened at home. However, fast forwarding a year no one does that anymore because they all have phones where they can do group calling, have group texts and on blackberries have group conversations using BBM. As we can see here, times have changed drastically in only just one year because of new technology.
Do you remember when you use to sit around at home waiting for your best-friend, or business partner/boss to call you on your house phone and you wouldn't let anyone else use or even pick up the phone? Well now with cellphones no one has to worry about privacy or waiting for calls because you can carry your cellphone around with you anywhere you go and call anyone you want whenever you want. Even though many studies show that cellphones cause cancer because of the radiation waves that are transmitted it hasn't stopped people from using cellphones. Since studies have come out more people have become aware but haven't stopped using cellphones because without them most people believe that they will not be able to function properly and efficiently as they would when they did have a mobile phone. Is this telling us that without cellphones we all wont be able to function properly and efficiently without cellphones? is it also showing us that we have become obsessed with our cellphones?
In recent news stories there have been parents saying that their children use their phones at the dinner table while they are eating. They say that they wont interact with the parents and tell them how their day went at school but are absorbed in using their cellphones and replying to their friends. This here would be a great example in showing how children are becoming obsessed with their phones. It gets so out of hand sometimes that parents take away their child's cellphone. I must admit that I am one of those children that uses their cellphone at the dinner table. However, I do put my cellphone away when I do not think it is necessary to reply to a certain text message. There are limits at how much a person should use their cellphone for example; if you're in the same house as your sibling only one room away yet you text them what you want to say instead of getting up and going to talk to them. This is an example of pure laziness shown in today's society. Back in the day when people couldn't communicate with cellphones or land-lines they would go and visit the person they wanted to talk to but that has all changed. Now a days it is all about the cellphone.
All of the factors above have changed our lives drastically, it may not have affected you directly but maybe the members in your family, or your friends. Cellphones have changed the way people communicate with each other which automatically changes the behavior of society. They have also changed the social skills of many people. Many communicate through text messages but when they see each other in person they may not even acknowledge each other. In the end, I would like to say that cellphones have changed our lives but I think it has been for the worst, not for the good. Most of us have become self absorbed, anti-social human beings because of one piece of technology that most think that is their "life". Take a second and think about how in the next few years technology could make us even worse than this. Do you think it could be possible? I now leave you with this question. Thank you all for reading my blog, I shall be writing another one soon :)
