The curious case of mobile phone..

Ancient Chinese ruler built wall around their vast empire also known as Great Wall of China, so that invaders could not be enter their empire easily. In case there was any war commence at wall, soldiers at near tower along wall sent smoke signal by burning wolf dung and fat. When soldiers at next tower saw smoke they also did same and in few hours’ information sent to capital that war is commence at wall.

Now the time has change and due to impressive scientific development there is no need to send any smoke signal or anything like that. Towers are replaced by mobile phone towers and smoke is replaced by electromagnetic waves. Heights of these towers are far greater than height of the roof of the home and they make to believe that there are no walls between people. As the information technology is developing, the virtual distance between people is decreasing irrespective of their physical distance. Mobile phone is one of the innovative and revolutionary solutions to communicate between people. Due to its mobility and accessibility among mass of people, it has significant social impact.

Probably, In Ramayana Raja Dashrath did not die that way if he and Lord Ram had mobile phones. Father and son could talk to each other whenever they want and it did not cause much emotional impact on Raja Dashrath. Nowadays also sons and daughters are leaving home but for higher education. Imagine the case if there are no mobile phones, life will be tougher for such parents and also for the students who are leaving their home first time in their life. Mobile phone is their son and/or daughter for their parents while they are studying away from home.

A song from movie PATANGA(1949) “mere piya gaye Rangoon, kiya hai waha se telephoon…” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAwCZMKItMM) was much ahead from the invention of the mobile phones but this song had given the glimpse of the future. People like to hear commentary of cricket match on radio when they cannot see the match. Similarly some people giving commentary of whatever happening in their life to someone special, day and night. I know I am wrong; it should be day to night, not day and night. It looks like a madness from outside and I don’t know from inside because I was [or am] never inside. People use mobile phone to maintain their special relationship healthy. Mobile phone becomes one of their body parts like finger. And that’s why they love their mobile more them themselves. They will not allow you to even touch it and obviously you will require pass code to access their mobile. Here ‘You’ stands for people like me.

Although mobile phones provide an easy and quick way to communicate but sometime due to excessive use it produces some negative effect. Some people become addicted of mobile and they start to cut off from surrounding environment and people. This makes them less social and they started to think about the things that are not happen in front of him/her. So a technology which make people more social, have reverse effect on them. You can easily make someone fool by telling lie on mobile and some selfish people often do it for own benefit. There are also some adverse health effects like carpal tunnel syndrome due to excessive use of mobile phone keypad.

Finally an interesting fact: India has more mobile phones than toilets. (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7593567/India-has-more-mobile-phones-than-toilets-UN-report.html)