Sternly Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 You all know what a mobile or cell phone is. Do you think they have improved the quality of life? and why? I don't think they have basically because here they are a social instruments rather than a working tool. You could find that strange, but If you had had any contact with Latin America, you might have noted that our references are Europe and the States and most people stick to what's going on there. We are pretty much a fashionable and consumist economy and people (historically, I'm talking as a whole, we feel less than Europeans so we've taken a lot of their traditions and instruments to sort of be at the 'same level') and what's happening now is that everyone feels the need to have a mobile just because the person next door has one and, for example in young people it's really rare to see a person without one and If you don't have one you are nearly oblied to buy one by comments such as "you are not loved because you don't have a mobile" or "I am better than you" or simply "what's your mobile number". It does have quite a lot of advantages, but it hasn't improved, as I see it, the quality of life and that for me means how well you feel as a whole (the combination of relating with people, being well with yourself and so on). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Pin Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 :thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambergris Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 That's so naive^^ I think we all know that already and there's no mind talking about it. People feels happy with them, so that's enough. If you do not agree don't be itchy and just do not buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_t Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 i dont have a cell phone and i never had :D shoot me :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambergris Posted May 25, 2005 Share Posted May 25, 2005 Done:_ :borg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sternly Posted May 25, 2005 Author Share Posted May 25, 2005 I'm not oblying anyone to answer, so why do I get those kind of replies? First.- "We all know" means we ALL know, and I assure that that's not true. Second.- Just because a thing is there and everyone lives with it, it doesn't mean we cannot talk, argue or think about it. Sometimes I think we are too tollerant and passive with the things that are going on. If anyone here will start with a "Tolerance" speech, I must say I am quite a good listener but I do not tolerate what I think are flaws is people's character or situation, so I am not a "all-tolerant" person (that was just a small note) and last but not least, I wouldn't waste your time If I'd thnk what I'm talking about it's nonsense. I do at times, but usually it's not my intention to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sternly Posted May 26, 2005 Author Share Posted May 26, 2005 i dont have a cell phone and i never had :D shoot me :P Neither do I. I don't really think there's much point in it since I live in a rural area and we don't get signal and when I'm at the city I just use public phones, but most people in my school have one (even though they don't have signal) and I could say that more than 2/3 of young people, at least in the Capital, have one (1/3 of the population lives there) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Pin Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 I see your point and it happens the same here but some ppl use them for work all the time especially ppl around 25-30 and ppl around 15-25 just for social fun in mst cases. It depends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sternly Posted May 26, 2005 Author Share Posted May 26, 2005 I know that, but that's not really my question, My question is wether it has improved the quality of life or not and first by the way it got here I don't think so. Some of my classmates believe they have because we live in a rural area and they live in remote farms and normal phone doesn't get there so the only contact with the "world" they have is through the mobiles and that enables them to received calls and connect to the Internet. That's a very expecific case, but even then, I don't think there's mucyh improvement. You could say it is obvious it's just a commercial thing but I wonder how on earth have they become so popular and used If they are not really necesarry? I mean there's public phone booths and regular telephones, then why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Pin Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 well i dont really see a chance except now.. i just got a multimedia mobile and the things that i love is that i can get piccies from my family in italy or sms's right to my cell wherever i am and sometimes im out all the time so im not missing anything...lets say i feel more 'connected' to those i luff but are far away. but like you said, 10 years ago just a few ppl had mobiles, now is everywhere :stunned: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_t Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Done:_ :borg: :lol: u bastard :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_t Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 well i dont really see a chance except now.. i just got a multimedia mobile and the things that i love is that i can get piccies from my family in italy or sms's right to my cell wherever i am and sometimes im out all the time so im not missing anything...lets say i feel more 'connected' to those i luff but are far away. but like you said, 10 years ago just a few ppl had mobiles, now is everywhere :stunned: wt village or city do u live in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojo Pin Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Lima - Peru..im a city boy and cant live without my cell phone, mp3-player and the noise of the cars outside my house :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 currently mines is causing me depression so no. well depressions a little far but im very unhappy. it should make me joyful but is not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joss Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 Mine got stolen Urg i wish i knew the person who did so grr. Anyway i think it was for the best.. God knows how much i spent monthly on that darn thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*Justine* Posted May 26, 2005 Share Posted May 26, 2005 i dont have a cell phone and i never had :D shoot me :P I had one and got severely ripped off because the company put me on the wrong plan from the start and charged me incredible bills. When I questionned them about it, they turned a blind eye and hardly helped me at all. I ended up paying $200 to get out of my 2-year plan. I will never get a cell phone again (unless it is pay as you go). I don't like how people have become so attached to their cell phones, but I can see how they are useful in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sternly Posted May 26, 2005 Author Share Posted May 26, 2005 that they are useful sometimes they are, I will not argue on the 'obvious', but I repeat they haven't improved the quality of life, we must make a difference there and that was the original question (I make the point there, and I'll keep doing it because at least here, we are sold the productt with the argument that they will in fact improve our quality of life and they don't! They make our life easier in a way, but not for that they improve it!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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