▶ Your Answer : Some people think optimistically that mobile phones enable people
enjoy huge freedom in terms of their life styles because it is available for
people to keep in touch with friends and use internet wherever and whenever
they want by using phones. However, in my opinion, the advent of mobile phones
is rather pessimistic with regards to people’s excessive dependence on the
phone.
To begin with, these days, most people tend to watch their mobile
phone screen without any special purposes. In more extreme cases, they seem
even to feel overly anxious and get addicted to the phones. These symptoms
resulted in breaking of communication among neighbors. From my personal
experience, compared to the past when people used to have talks with next
person, nowadays, all people just look at their smart phones with their head
down in subway. In the dreary atmosphere, I realized that even I kept my eyes
on the screen.
On top of that, people cannot do some tasks without cell phones,
even if they were able to do that previously. To put it in detail, while people
could find out their destination by using paper map in the past, now they got
used to using smart phone’s application which has a function to navigate, so
lost their ability to navigate. In addition, they don’t memorize even their
family members’ numbers, relying on the mobile. These behaviors indicate that
people have been excessively depending on cellphones, weakening original
human’s capabilities.
To sum up, people’s over indulgence on mobiles cannot be considered
as desirable conclusion because the usage made communities heartless world
without interaction face-to-face, and people have been more poisoned with that.
In this regard, I don’t agree with the statement that mobile phones have provided
people with freedom.
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