No, this is not about the Apple application; it's just about mobile phones.
And that's a long way one has travelled- from being portable phones- 'portable' in french or mobile phones or simply 'mobiles'; there is now the 'IPhone', the 'Windows Phone', the 'Smartphone', the touch screens and many many more. Like almost every thing which stems from a need, phones also are now a 'statement'. I don't want to get into the hows and whys- enough posts/articles about that already.
No- my reason was simple. The other day, i had gone to pick up my younger one from school. There were 10 people waiting. 8 were glued to their mobile phones. I actually felt so isolated that I picked up my phone and called my husband at work. There was a time and not too far back, when people or in this case- mothers, would try and strike up a conversation with others. Now, one uses the phone as a tool to aid the opposite. Just sit on the bench and play with your downloaded games- you could still manage to look 'importantly' occupied. Or the classic- pretend calls to avoid talking to someone, except don't forget to kill the ringer!
And that's a long way one has travelled- from being portable phones- 'portable' in french or mobile phones or simply 'mobiles'; there is now the 'IPhone', the 'Windows Phone', the 'Smartphone', the touch screens and many many more. Like almost every thing which stems from a need, phones also are now a 'statement'. I don't want to get into the hows and whys- enough posts/articles about that already.
No- my reason was simple. The other day, i had gone to pick up my younger one from school. There were 10 people waiting. 8 were glued to their mobile phones. I actually felt so isolated that I picked up my phone and called my husband at work. There was a time and not too far back, when people or in this case- mothers, would try and strike up a conversation with others. Now, one uses the phone as a tool to aid the opposite. Just sit on the bench and play with your downloaded games- you could still manage to look 'importantly' occupied. Or the classic- pretend calls to avoid talking to someone, except don't forget to kill the ringer!
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