Topic > Mobile communication as the glue of society - 992

It is important to mention the reception that mobile communication has received these days: this communication technology has been adopted by billions of people around the world and these people literally send trillions of text messages a day. However, the mobile phone has become essential in society which knows that it is the medium of interaction. Mobile communication has become the glue of society interaction, but it has changed natural social interactions with negative effects. There are different aspects in life where the cell phone fits into work, family and social life. Initially, the cell phone found a place in the workplace. Or you can say that the work has found a site on this device. Initially, those who had cell phones were important executives. It was a luxury. When cell phones were first introduced to the public, they were bulky, expensive, and some even required a base unit that had to be carried along with the phone (Castells, 2004). For example, it was so common to have a cell phone to catch up on the stock market or do business. In the movie 'Little Miss Sunshine' the dad is about to make a deal with his boss, so he needs a cell phone to enter mail and communicate. It has become a tool with which even President Obama sends emails from his Blackberry (New York Times, 2009). 89% of married families with children own multiple cell phones and almost half own three or more mobile devices (cellular-news, 1970) because the father or mother who works in the offices were busy people who did not allow them to attend to family duties. It's not an unfamiliar situation, so a lot of cartoons show that kind of mother or father in the story. An example was Angelica's mother of......middle of paper......or the expectations of our social networks (Ling, 2012). We are becoming the humans of Wall-e. They are so involved in technology that they are next to others, but the only thing they see is that mobile communications have a way of life. «Wall-e supposes that the human race of the future will become a flaccid mass of mindless idiots, literally too fat to walk. Instead they zip around in flying wheelchairs surfing the Web, chatting on phone lines and gorging on food (...)' (Ford, 2008). Cell phones have made us less human and more self-absorbed. We don't see what's happening in our environment. We only see images and videos, but not people. It depends on us: do we want to be like the humans of Wall-e or change the future and preserve the essence of interaction: seeing the other and loving him with actions, not with texts.