At dinners, family get togethers, parties and weddings, everyone is busy using a mobile rather than talking or interacting with humans. Are we losing our sanity and socialization to the smartphones?
Henna i think we are becoming a CONFUSED nation because of the excessive use of these gadgets. We are losing everything good.
It becomes so irritating when you are talking to somebody and he/she is busy in texting and other applications on cell phones. People do not use these technologies for constructive things, they mostly misuse just to pass time and mislead others.
It should be teached in schools how to use mobile phones and when people should not use them... (is also a question of education).
Lets hope it is only fashion which will pass after some time. Although vendors, SW developers and content providers are taking great care to keep market still dynamic.
However, after years of almost uninterrupted reading about "knowledge-based economy", about general happines and welfare which is supposed to happen right after everybody is FTTH connected, I am only glad to read some negative opinions too.
Agreed Jaoa, Ayesha, Sahifa and hope this phase passes away Tomy, but for now its creating serious problems in our society. There is a specific term used for this mobile attention behavior, does anyone know that term?
We had something similar here, although probably not so serious. After 89 it was possible for the first time to buy freely videoplayers and better quality TVs. Shops lending videocasettes were in every third street on average. People were taking three casettes home per every night. They were also exchanging them with neighbors to save money. I still can remember one lady who came into shop red-eyed because lack of sleep and constant watching TV bringing back seven casettes. And she took with herself even more.
It almost destroyed all social life here, including pubs (and pubs are serious matter here, really). But after some time people got bored with it and started to socialize again. Now I am not able to recall, when and where I saw such shop.
Louis C.K. has some funny views on your question:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEY58fiSK8E#t=127
Dear All,
Mobile phones (use) are only a symptom. A symptom of alienation and that of a battle against time and we lose it surely and try to substitute with remote control surrogates the lost human connections. We know well: out of sight, out of mind. Our tragedy is that our way of life changes quicker than our ability to tolerate these changes. But never mind: we are living in the best world of all possible worlds.
We are, indeed! Just as András says.
However, I would be more cautious and optimist. My personal worry is the fear against new technologies, new discoveries and new knowledge. I have no doubts that the internet via our smartphones has make our lives better in that we get more (and depending on ourselves) better information.
It is, after all, it seems, a customary discussion between the younger and the elder generations. Historically the elder generations have been somehow against the new technologies. Plato, an old wise man, protested against written philosophy, just to recall the first case, probably.
I get the message on most of the posts above. I am in favor of a personal control against dependency on these gadgets. No problem with that.
The very fact is that we have been living for less than one generation with smart mobiles, peaking demographically. Certainly the pace is fast and speedy. However...
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