The Mobile Phone
In this century, we can’t live without our mobile phones.. On the other hand, we cant live with it too…
Imagine, when your mobile phone breakdown, stolen, lost, etc.. you are in a lost world. A world which you are out of connection with loved ones, family, friends, etc.. You are afraid that someone might just called up while you are unconnectable. Important calls would be missed and opportunities were lost. Datas and contacts numbers are lost too.. You have to start to gather the lost information.. Letting friends know that your phone is lost, asking them to relay the msg all over the world so that one of the days, all the datas are retrieved. Or for the hardworking ones, they will store a backup somewhere. (I am the lazy one.. once my phone was stolen, i just gonna wait for my friends to call/sms me.. then i had to repeat myself slightly more than a hundred times why their no. were no stored in my mobile, … ) ;=P Been thru the exprience should had taught me a lesson, yet, i dun backup my mobile, thinking it was indestructable..
One day, the one of the mobile which datas were kept died on me!! Cos i was too hard on it.. :p letting it getting knocks everywhere. Thus, the cycle of getting just the mobile nos of friends started again. This time round, with the help of MSN Messenger, i managed not to repeat myself too much.. haha.. just a posting of the header on MSN will do most of the job.
That’s how important mobile and IT are to us. The people of the modern world.
How different was it during the days with only telephones back then.. waiting for calls, we had to stay at home. During those periods, i was home-bound, or maybe i was too young to hang out too much.. :p Nevetheless, i was at friends’ place more often than not.
Then it came the era of PAGERS!! there were friends of mine whom envied me carrying one before it became common. BUT guess wat, it was my parents’ way of tracking my movement. That is the beginning of mobile communication but the end of freedom.
Then NOW, the freedom is almost gone. A phone call away, people know where you are, what you doing, etc… The freedom of being alone.. There are times when a person wish to be alone, dun have to speak to anyone, UNCONTACTABLE. But this era is gone. Unless you dont intent to answer to the call but by not answer the call, later in the day, you still have to return the call, rite? Or the smses..
Once again, imagine this situation, there are unknown no. or no. that are not familiar to you. Wat are the percentage of answering the call? Especially when the mobile are closely related to our career?
Recently, i had been recieving such calls/smses. Guess wat? Politely questioning the other party for information, they were trying to be funny. Asking who are they and where they are from, have you ever gotten answer like "I am stranger" or some names that you have never ever heard before? Well, not only that, they could ask you back "where are you staying". For me, to this extend, i think i am entertaining these people enough, i would angrily told them off, not to call or sms me again!
Did anyone playing a plank? Did anyone keying any no. just to call the other party? Or someone taking revenge?
Why would i said such a stuff?? Well, one of the conversation i once had with a taxi driver, he told me that for most of the passengers whom placed a booking but failed to turn up, etc.. they would passed these no. around to their other colleagues drivers, especially those who drove at night. Then the plank calls would start.. So readers, just take note of this!!
The other lost of freedom is that when you are working, it is the interruption which they caused. One could be rushing for deadlines, but phones calls will still be coming in, whether you are in office or out for appointments, etc..
Althought those are the cons, there are pros too.
Wat if you are in other countries, and you need to call back home for assistance? that is fastest way to get help. Or should you miss some one? I have missed a friend so much that i almost called. The urge was great but somehow, it was not possible due to the time differences. Neither should i wake anyone up in the middle of the night.
The modern world of ours. Would you prefer the simple world of the past or this one?
