Mobile Boon or Bane

IN the present millennium , science has bestowed on us a number of innovations n one among them is - MOBILE PHONES. Mobile phones have become ubiquitous in our society. In fact, telephones have been around for several decades in some form or another tracing back to the invention of telephone way back in 1870s by Alexander Graham Bell. Alexander Graham Bell's success with the design of telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph which was the most widely used electronic communication device.
The technology began to take shape in the late 1940s, when the idea of a mobile phone was introduced. Mobile phones are looked upon as a modern invention. However, their origin can be traced to the time when radio messages began to be captured successfully. .
Just about 20-30 years ago, people always wanted a device which could connect them with their families, business associates and loved ones all around the world at any given time possible. But as people always love innovation Motorola made the World’s first ever Mobile Phone. Nobody at that time could imagine that a device like a mobile phone could keep them connected, on the go to their loved ones despite being kilometers away.
Arguably, mobiles phones have become one of the best gifts that humanity has ever received in the twenty first century because of its numerous benefits. It is a fact that having a mobile phone nowadays is a sort of a necessity and it is an inevitable truth that the mobile industry is taking everyone by storm. A mobile phone is a device with so many advantages contributing convenient living for both the old and young generations.
Apart from serving as a great medium in telling lies (i.e. both caller and receiver can be deceived since one cannot tell where exactly the other person is), there are so many advantages to the user. This includes keeping you in constant contact with people you consider important, helps you seek help immediately during emergency cases, and gives a sense of being financially uplifted in the past, lessen your boredom, example listening to your..

Why Cell Phones considered as a boon

 

Advantages /Multipurpose of Cell Phones

·         Through cell phones we can communicate with people far away while doing the necessary work and even when travelling.

·         If our hands aren’t free ear phones are provided through which we can talk and hear without the movement of our hands.

·         Cell phones can also be used for recreation. There are many games which are available in the software market. We can load them in the mobile phones.

·         We can even watch movies in Cell phones just like we watch one in the computer. The movies should just be loaded in to the mobile phones.

·         One can listen music and radio

·         Take beautiful photographs of your loved one’s

·         Send money through mobile banking

·         Find the location with GPS

·         Can send Text Message ( SMS)

·         Can make word, power point,excel document, store numbers and databases

·         Reminders for your schedule

·         Get latest alerts, get cricket score, breaking news, stock quotes

·         It can act as torch when there is a power failure

...Thus everywhere you turn,you see people with cell phones. Cell became a multipurpose toy that everyone wants to have it and enjoy. It became part and parcel of everyone in day today life. Life became so easy. Often they may be irritating ,but we cannot imagine life without them. Thus cell phones can be considered as a boon.

Disadvantages /Misuse of Cell Phones

But life became so difficult to the people.

·         One’s privacy is lost; and were monitored by every one and every moment. Quite recently,with the availability of new camera enabled cell phones,serious debates have occurred ,over the intrusion of privacy.

·         People also misuse them for illicit purposes like morphing of photographs.The misuse of cell phones can lead to many unwanted problems.

·         The wave emitted from them can change our skin tissues.

·         Another drawback of cell phones is one get disturbed in meeting with unsolicited calls from marketing people.

·         Cell phones have often been linked to cancers and tumours. Even if this was ignored by all cellusers.

·         Increasing road accidents are due to “talking while driving”. About 40% of road accidents are caused by this.

·         Cell phone hacking increased some privacy issues and security (Some people stores their system passwords ,credit card no and many passwords in cell phones)

·         Stolen cell phones also used for some impractises

New phobias for mobile users

·         Nomophobia: The fear of being out of cell phone contact. It’s the abbreviation for ‘no-cell-phone phobia.’ It could be a result of low battery, broken phone, a no-cellphones-allowed sign, no signal, low balance, etc.

·         Phantom Ring: Imagining the cellphone to be ringing or feel it vibrating in the pocket, when it’s actually not.

·         Pocket Patter: Patting your pockets to check if the cellphone is still there.

·         Human Antenna: Stretching your arm to hold the phones at a height in the hope that it’ll get the strongest signal.

Cell Phone Parental Control Options
For some, the idea of monitoring a kid's cell phone is wrong. It's too controlling. It's equivalent to spying and that flies in the face of trusting your kids.Definitely a pain,but one can live without it.Life without cell phones will be like the burger without the party. Its a catch-22 situation. We hate them(sometimes),but cannot do without them. Cell phones shall remain a boon if we realize its role in the society and use it sensibly.