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Those who disagree might say that mobile phones do not do an important role in people’s freedom. However, in my opinion, people can get a huge amount of freedom by mobile phones. This is mainly due to the fact that people are able to communicate with others easily and obtain a lot of information quickly.
To begin with, we can get more communication with others than what we did in the past. Before mobile phone emerging, People had to send a snail mail or they had to meet each other face-to-face. However, today we can just call or text when we want to talk to our friends and it makes us save lots of time and money. I will illustrate my own experience to explain this. When I was thirteen, I met Hyeji. We had a copious amount of common grounds thus we became a best friend very fast. We always got along together and when people saw us they thought we were sisters. When we were 15, she had to go to England for her study. I was so frustrated because I thought her as a member of my family. However, we could keep in touch thanks to the mobile phone. We could talk to each other and even could see each other during phone call through our devices. Therefore, until now we are still a good friend and keep talking with our messengers. Without mobile phone, I would have never met my friend or I might have gone to her country.
On top of that, we are able to attain a large amount of information very quickly. In the past, we had to go to the libraries to get resources what we want. However, nowadays, people can get information very freely through their mobile phones with just one touch. For example, a study was conducted by the University of Calgary in 2009 to determine whether mobile phone could affect student’s assignment ability. There were two groups monitored. The first group was formed of people who had dictionaries and books. They were asked to write a long essay with a given theme. The other group consisted of people who had mobile phones and were given the same direction. The researchers compared the outcomes and recorded that the latter group were able to finish their tasks faster and get better grades than the former group. This was because people with mobile phones could search the information quickly and also they could get information affluently. Also, they could compare the resources whether it is true or not because people usually exchange their opinions in the internet. This study demonstrated that mobile phone can be a useful device for students to make them free from place and time.
To sum up, because of the mobile phones, it is possible to communicate with people who are not in a same place and get a lot of information freely. In this regard, I firmly believe that people can take advantage of mobile phones to gain more freedom. |