The advent of mobile phone had significantly contributed to the efficiency of communication. With a mobile phone, people can call their friends or family whenever they want and regardless of distance and place. But when it comes to the matter of security and privacy, the advent of mobile phone is rather disastrous. People can no longer live personal life because their daily life can be monitored through mobile phone and because of the mobile phone with a camera, many people became vulnerable target of paparazzi.
To start with, one’s private life should be always kept hidden even when it is immoral or scandalous one. Each and everyone has right to protect themselves from disclosing their personal life. However, after the advent of mobile phone, keeping private life secret became almost impossible. To take a personal example, my life is always in control of my mother since the day I bought my mobile phone. Whenever I feel like my phone is lost, I can always find it from my mother’s hand. My mom tries to monitor every single aspect of my life by checking call list and message. I cannot put a password on it or delete the call list or message, because if I do such things, my mom immediately suspects that I am hanging out with bad friends and if she finds anything suspicious on my mobile she nags me for almost all day long. I always feel that because of my phone, my right to protect my personal life from others is seriously damaged.
On top of that, because of the mobile phone with a camera, people can take photo from wherever and whenever they want. This made our life more convenient but it also has negative effect. Since the mobile phone camera is portable, small and unnoticeable, it is often used in malicious way. For example, some perverted people take picture of other people’s private part such as leg or breast with their mobile phone and some reporters, blinded by the desire to report exclusive news, record or take photo of top star’s scandalous and private life that they want to hide from their fan with mobile phone. These kinds of side effects of mobile phone are making our life unreliable.
To summarize, I strongly believe that mobile phone manacled our life instead of giving us more freedom. Because of advent of mobile phone, freedom to have private life was significantly damaged and the right to hide one’s embarrassing moment from public as well. |