Those who like to chat with others might say that mobile phone make people free because whenever they want to talk, it allows them to contact others. However, I disagree with the opinion that cellular phone let us free in two aspects: reducing our free time and exposing our privacy to others.
First, as far as cellular phone contributes to reduce our free time, it does not make people free.
In a sense it is true that invention of cell phone without the limitation of time and space we could keep contact with people. However, you can not deny that thanks to this advatage of cell phone, it takes away our free time. it lets us not only recieve calls from company during our vacation days, but also have to call friends and familiy to celebrate thier birthdays.
This means that we can not be alone away for a while from stressful reality as long as we have cell phones. If we turn off our phones to enjoy our free time, others can think that we are someone who get stresses by huamn relationships. This is not good for us in such a human network oriented society. According to how we use cell phones, we can give bad or good impression to others. This social atmosphere make us always bring our cell phone.
Second, it limits our freedom in that it can invade the right to keep our privacy.
By using cell phone there are many dangerous ways to release our private imformation.
From recieving a call in a pubic place taking about our work and daily life to having a possiblity of losing cell phone which be able to write our daily memo or our friend's cell phone number, there is nothing riskier than having cell phone as a way to expose our privacy.
I realized this when i lost my celluar phone in a subways last year. After the day i lost it, a strange man sent texts to my co-workers and my friends with my celluar phone, he asked them to borrow money pretending that I wrote the message. Although I stoped using the previous cell phone number, I still feel displeased in that all my priavate informaions were exposed to others.
In summary, I believe that celluar phone limit our freedom since it decreses our rest time and it plays a main role to release our privacy.
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