Mobile Mania - Uses and abuses

Alexander Graham Bell gave us the telephone in 1850 and opened the world of communication to us. This world has been contracted so much that you can call to America, U.K.etc to any part of the world at your finger tips. This grandson of telephone gives you instant access to Internet, your friends, and to the world. Google maps in this device helps you to see the world through a satellite without spending trillions of dollars behind a space shuttle. Simply turn on the Google maps application and watch it. This device is so efficient that it works for as much as 20-28 hours after charging it for just 2 hours or an hour more.

This is neither laptop nor some magical wand. It is just a commonly used inexpensive device termed as Mobile(or Cell phone). This palm sized device has made the world to shrink to a global village. Anyone could talk with anybody in the matter of seconds. Video talk has allowed every body to talk while watching each other in live environment. It can take the form of many devices in the matter of seconds. It can take the form of laptop/PC, space satellite, post man, messenger and many more. Today, It has become so popular that you can see the sweepers holding it in their hands.

When telephone were first introduced, people used to distribute sweets in their neighbourhood and among their relatives expressing their joy. The one who could afford telephone was considered to be the richest. They used to draw long wires from the telephone exchange to their houses. As soon as it became popular, thousands of people owned it and the sky was bounded by the long black wires. With the flow of time and the advancement in technology, telephone got contracted to a size what we call as mobile. It uses wireless technology and allows its use without an inch of wire. This handy device is even popular today.

Mobile has made the life of people a lot more comfortable. They can communicate with the instrument which is of the size of pocket. This device serves the role of camera, directory, computer, calculator, music player etc. It can do e-mailing, accounting and lot more. This mobile phone has brought a revolution in the country and it is easily affordable to common man.

This tool is extremely useful and handy. It is so popular that if you ask a 8-10 year old child to name the latest models of mobile, then he would answer in seconds. Yet, Besides having benefits, it also has some woes. People are addicted to habit of using it while driving and promote accidents. People are so much addicted that they use it for playing games, listening to music while on job. They lost their principles and the proverb:'Work while work and play while play.'. People snap the photographs of others and encroach the privacy of others. Evil minded people also send obnoxious and offensive photographs and disturb the young minds. Rolling explicit videos corrupt young minds. To prevent this government has put a ban on the rolling explicit videos and catching vulgar photographs. This trend has followed the foot steps of mobile. People also record private conversations between people. Misuse of mobile phones in the campus break the discipline.

In positive way they are helpful to parents to know the whereabouts of their children. Use of mobile phones in school and college interrupt discipline and hence a ban is put in their use in class.

From the health point of view, they emit radiations that are detrimental to delicate and vital organs of body. However the era of mobiles is going to continue but some strict action from the government and control of its use in some ways is needed to prevent the evil activities taking place.