Have you seen kids on the streets, everybody has got at least one mobile. Do not know what and whom they are talking to, but it has to be something important. I think future generation has already taken the responsibility of world on their shoulder and they are talking their way to create better future among themselves. They just have not got enough talk time to deal with the situation. Parents in vain preying intentions trying to get clues from their confidential discussions, but our little masters do it better than our Union Home minister P. Chidambaram.
In coming years mobile will become such a necessity, that God will understand the basic need and create human models with inbuilt cell phones. Imagine a kid just born talking to God on his phone “Do not worry, I came out f9. Do u want 2 talk 2 my doctor? No, OK. GTG. It is shower time.”
Call me old fashioned, but I do not welcome change easily. I like the things old ways, the way I am used to it. Technology is intimidating to me. By the time I got used to Nokia 1100, already E series, N series and God knows what, was already in the market. Someone told me about some “BlueBerry” phone, on which you can do web browsing, internet faxing and many more. My friend was showing me a mobile phone which had inbuilt camera in it. Can you believe that? It is just too much to catch up.
I joined Orkut in my first year of under graduate study. After four years of hard labour I made somewhat 300 friends. I never wrote a scrap to nearly 2/3rd of them, but that was my society. Somebody caste a spell on my society, it is loosing touch. All my friends are moving to some new social group called Facebook. People say it is better than Orkut because you can give tests to find out answers of various complicated questions like “Which Harry Potter Character Are You? Does She like me? What is the First Name of the Person You Will Marry?” etc. May be Facebook is better, but I am not the one who leaves the sinking ship behind.
Technology might have solved various challenging problems like – Here in Australia, you can SMS “NAME B or G” (B for boy and G for Girl) at 5555 to get suggestion for your baby’s name – but have generated new problems too. These social network websites may provide us global exposure, but are we sure we know who our next door neighbors are? We are dependent on greeting cards to express our emotions. I always buy my calling card from an old man’s shop. One day my flat mate asked me, “Why do not you buy your cards online? It would be easier.” I told him, “You know he is probably the first Australian who knows me by my name. Whenever I go to his shop, he smiles at me and without asking me anything gives me my card. I do not want to miss such precious human feeling.”
So what if I do not like the change; it is just too much activity for me.
