mobile madness

                                                Mobile madness

It is about twenty years since mobile telephones first entered our lives. Mostly in communications terms they are an absolute boon making possible communication across vast distances by means of texting and also pure and simple phoning. In fact to remember the days before mobiles were invented it is easy to wonder how we ever lived without them.

Almost everybody has one these days apart from a few technophobic individuals.  The technology is ubiquitous. Now of course the question is how did we ever live without them. Smart phones have married technology with new developments such as global positioning and use of the internet.

However human development has not always kept up with their use.

It is a common sight to see people walking along the pavements and across roads so thoroughly engrossed in what is going on that they are oblivious to what is going on around them. It would be interesting to see how many accidents are cased by this. 

The other development is of course people speaking loudly on their phones in places such as buses. This is quite amusing to me as I always wonder what these people would feel if they could hear themselves speak.

The scene is clear . You are sitting on the bus and somebody gets on speaking loudly about their lives and their relationships with people.

I sit with the thought “I don't know you from Adam but I know all your business” You hear people describe such intimate details of their lives in such loud and penetrating voices that you begin to wonder if this is a display of public exhibitionism or whether these people are intentionally unaware. Of course at the end of the conversation you feel that you know them as it is impossible not to listen

People describe such intimate details of their lives on these devices it actually boggles the mind. I have heard details of their business relationships, the deals they are doing, Who they are going to sort out, who they live with and such like.

In an age where there is a lot of worry about the spying of government agencies and such like and the question of the privacy of the individual it certainly means with some of these people monitoring would be so easy. You could just imagine recording a conversation and anybody could know everything about them. Surveillance would be so easy!