Mobile phone a good thing?

The developments of communications technology has resulted in the invention of the mobile phone. It has become an essential part of our daily lives and majority of people rely on this small communication devices to contact with one another and you always carry this device around where ever you go. We can choose to live without it but in the age of digital era communication without mobile phone is unthinkable. Since we rely so much on these devices, we keep getting constant texts and calls from our friends and relatives and we also reply back to them because if we don’t, they might ask questions like why didn’t you reply back? Are you ok? Now the frustrating part starts to kick in, owning a mobile phone can be frustrating because we constantly have to give out our numbers to basically everyone we know. It a bother and I often think is it voluntary or involuntary and is it necessary to give out numbers? Sometimes when you want to be alone you wish that mobile phones weren’t invented because with the device it seems that privacy doesn’t exist. Only thing you could say to your friends if you want to ignore them is telling them the battery was flat so you couldn’t reply back or saying u were busy, which seems like a lame excuse. You don’t want to say I ignored it because I couldn’t be bothered to reply back, you have to explain it and make sure that it ends in a good way or else they might think you’re ignorant. Friends expect you to reply back to their SMS and phone calls because if you don’t then they always think something has happened, and all you wanted to do is just having a time of your own.

I can divide mobile phones usage into three different categories personal, social and professional. Mobile phones is supposed to be personal and professorial use but nowadays its mainly concentrated on the social use which makes it frustrating as half of the times, you have to keep replying back to your friends. You can’t use it when you want to use it and where ever you want to use it, as social use has overtaken the personal and professional use.