It is true that all of my friends have their own mobile phones; one of them even said that she cannot live without her mobile phone and that mobile phone is her best and most reliable friend. There is no doubt that mobile phones have made our lives much more interesting and easier, however, instead of owning their phones, some people let their phones “own” them and manipulate their life. Should we totally rely on our phones?
I think that my life is filled up with my mobile phone. In the morning, I am waked up by my mobile phone; during the day, I check my emails through my mobile phone, read about news on my phone and chat with my friends through my mobile phone; I always use my mobile phone when I am taking the train or bus to kill the time; the last thing I will do before going to bed is check my phone for texts or emails. Mobile phone has been part of my life and it is the part that I cannot live without. In today’s society, mobile phone was such a common facility among people’s daily life. The reason why I say that I cannot live out with my phone is that I even cannot remember the phone number of my best friends, actually, the only number I can remember without checking my phone is my dad’s. Since I can save all the contact details in my phone, remembering the numbers has never bothered me, but occasionally I am still a little worried that what can I do if there is something dangerous happened and I cannot use my mobile phone, and even if I have some mobile phone available, there is still few people i can turn to because I cannot remember even one of my friends’ numbers.
Mobile phones today are not luxurious items that only the wealthy or powerful people can have. The number of children who are using mobile phones today is increasing rapidly.. As Ling reports for Norway, only 3 percent of 13 years old had cell phones in 1997, while this percentage has risen to 50% in Nov 1999 and to over 80% in 2001.For 16 years old, the percentage was less than 20 in 1997, but about 80% in 1999 and almost 100% in 2001. (Ling 2001a: 7).
Actually, none of my friends has no mobile phone. Some of the people I know have already seen their phones as a symbol of themselves; they will spend a lot of time and energy on decorating their phones and they seem like will never get tired of changing the wallpaper of their phones. Mobile phone today can be seen as a mini-computer. Taking photos, playing games, having video-chat, and watching movies…it seems like mobile phones today can been seen as mini computers and is kind of personal e-secretary. But the problem is that are we really the master of our phones, can we control our use of our phones?
It seems like we use our phones every day, but the fact is that our phones have all the information we need--we have to turn to our phones to check our daily schedule, find out somebody’s phone number and the most basic function of our mobile phones is also the most important that we cannot live without, that is to contact with other people. Sometimes, the mobile phone can be very distractive to people. I was too addicted in playing games on my mobile phone one day and forgot to get off at my station, instead of missing one stop, I messed 4 stops in total. As a result, I had to walk back to home in dark for almost 30 minutes.
Not only adults have their mobile phones, most of teenagers have their mobile phones at a more and more young age. Many parents want their children to have a mobile phone so that they can know what their children are doing whenever and wherever they are, meanwhile, in the parents’ mind, the mobile phone is a must in case their children run into some dangerous situations. However, things are not always like what people wish. Many a students are probably play games or text their friends on their phones in class, a lot of students are looking at their mobile phones instead of reading their text books or listening to their teacher. Mobile phones are not a contact tool to them, but an entertainment of life. In order to have the students keep their concentration on study, my high-school teachers in China asked students not to use mobile phone in school, in fact, we were not allowed to bring mobile phones to our high school. Anyone who against the rule and bring his or her mobile phone to school would receive very strict punishment, even had some really bad record in their resume.
Nothing is perfect, neither do mobile phones. We cannot deny the fact that mobile phones do bring us a lot of convenience, at the same time, the limitation of using mobile phones is very obvious, we should keep an eye on our use of mobile phones and don’t let our mobile phones manipulate our life.
(Cell phones mean safer hiking, but don't rely on it --An example of the strong power of mobile phones as well as their limited power. )
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