Smart Phones – A Friend or Foe in My Social life

Smart Phones : In My Social Life

As long as you have a cell phone you are never alone; if not, how will you locate your family members in your own house without it? It is a fact that we are absolutely dependent on our mobiles or smart phones. To be honest, these are creations by a devil that has taken away our natural life and thrown us into the mysterious virtual world.

How did mobile telephony, the technology of mobile phones, start? Let’s learn this first. Mobile telephony service is provided through cellular networks. Cellular network divides land into small cells by setting up transceivers at different locations. These transceivers have unique set of frequencies for each of its cell interfaces. Cellular networks work on public switched telephone network technology that has been developed since 1993 by ITU-T, a committee of International Telecommunication Union. 

There are two types of mobile phones that we commonly use – Mobile Phone and Smart Phone. In the early phase of cellular telephony, we used basic mobile phones only to converse with our near and dears. Later, modern mobile phones started to support text messaging, e-mails, multi-media messaging, gaming, infra-red and bluetooth services.

A smart phone has all the functions of a basic and modern mobile phone but it supports third party applications also i.e. we can download, install and operate other’s applications, the applications provided by mobile operators and mobile manufacturers. The smart phones commonly use Android, Blackberry, iOS and Windows software platforms. Generally, we use applications on Google’s Android platform, which are downloaded from the application store of Google Play, Amazon Application Store, etc. In other cases, we can use iPhones (Apple’s), Window’s Phone Store, Blackberry App’s Store. Some of the most used applications are: Facebook, Pandora, What’s App, We Chat, Viber, Skype, Hangouts, You Tube and G+. These applications are used for discussion, conversation, mobile commerce, etc. 

Market Share of Mobile Software Platforms

Mobile applications help us to continuously stay in touch with our community and help us to share our experiences with them. We can listen to music, watch video and learn new things through these applications. Some of the applications help us to protect from deceit or hidden threats. They connect us socially and we can even showcase our talent, our mood and our status to our acquaintances through them. It’s a new phenomenon; it has its impact largely on youth. The children in their early childhood use these phones as play device for playing games and they fail to share playgrounds with their friends. It adversely affects their health and psychological development. The adolescents have started to connect with the virtual world and sometimes it leads them to face fraud, stalking and harassment at the hands of mysterious people. 

Sharing and Connecting

It’s a debatable question if the rapid technology development in mobile telephony has negatively affected our behaviour and health. Somehow, your answer would be yes. However, there are some applications of smart phones that can compute our health parameters. Cutting edge technology of smart phone will permit us to record behavioral changes in near future.

Mobile phones are not only an instrument but more than that which can protect us like a lethal weapon, but you should be aware of how to use them successfully.

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