To many of us in the developed western world it would appear that everyone and their dog now has a mobile phone. But it should be remembered that around half of the world’s population have never made or received a telephone call.
This fact highlights the technological gap that exists between the developing countries and those lucky enough to have affordable access to modern communication technology.
But many people think that mobile phones are actually more irritating than they are useful. Have you recently used any form of public transport?
On my routine journeys to and from London on the train I am forced to listen to various telephone conversations that would never have taken place if it wasn’t for mobile phones. On my homeward journey I regularly listen to people calling their partners just to tell them: ‘I’m on the train’. And I see and hear the same people making the same calls with the same pointless message every day. How did they manage before mobile phones?
I’m also often forced to listen to the conversations of teenagers who appear to speak a different language. Their conversations seem to be focused on their boring lives, the television programmes they’ve been watching or criticising their boyfriends. In one conversation that a young lady chose to share with the occupants of a packed commuter train she cheerfully derided a young man’s sexual prowess with grizzly attention to detail. As she proceeded to describe her experience in far too much detail everyone in the compartment was squirming with embarassment.
Inconsiderately forcing people to listen to one side of your mobile phone conversation is one way in which modern mobile phone use is anti-social. Another is people who use their mobiles to play their music far too loudly without any thought for others who might not like hip hop music.
We all need to be reminded of how lucky we are to even own mobile phones. Owning a mobile phone is not a god given right, it’s a privelige that should not be provided to people who use it to describe their sex lives, loudly.
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