write a letter to your younger brother tell him disadvantage of mobile phone and use the it as less possible
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February 26, 2013 10:19 pm
Your cellphone is a bad friend, preventing you from making new, human ones with its constant demands on your attention.
People use their cellphones to carry out more tasks every day — everything from making vending machine purchases to watching movies. But at the same time, cellphones are becoming one of the main hindrances to real interpersonal communication. Your cellphone may be helping you stay close to distant friends and family, but it is probably separating you from the person standing next to you.
These days almost everybody has a cellphone, and it’s often carried in the hand — not even in a pocket. No one wants to be parted from it. It’s as if something terrible would happen if we didn’t answer the moment it rang or vibrated.
But if you’re in the middle of a conversation and answer your phone rather than ignoring it, the person you’re talking with will feel rejected. The message you’re sending is clear: The distant caller is more important. If you’re talking to someone who is holding a cellphone, you know your conversation may be interrupted at any moment.
Constantly checking your cellphone keeps you from living in the moment. No matter where you are or what else you’re doing, your attention is divided.
This is understood at Eva, a restaurant in Los Angeles, where patrons get a 5 percent discount if they don’t use their phones during meals. Participation is voluntary but, according to a report in The Huffington Post, 4 out of every 10 customers accept the deal.
Suddenly, the real luxury is uninterrupted conversation. I haven’t been to Eva and I don’t know whether the food or the service is any good. But the next time I’m in Los Angeles, I intend to make a pilgrimage there.
Cellphones are terrible companions. As The Huffington Post pointed out, that was the conclusion of a series of studies conducted by Andrew Przybylski and Netta Weinstein, researchers at the University of Essex in Britain, who looked into whether the presence of a cellphone affects face-to-face conversation.
In one experiment, the researchers paired off 74 participants. Half of the pairs spoke to each other in private booths with a cellphone on a small table nearby. The other half spoke with no cellphone on the table. All of them were asked to talk for 10 minutes about an interesting event that had happened to them within the previous month.
The findings were fascinating. The people who spoke without a cellphone in sight reported that it was easier to build closeness and understanding. A second experiment by Przybylski and Weinstein confirmed that people are more trusting and open with each other when there’s no cellphone within reach.
From these studies, the results of which were published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, the researchers concluded, “The evidence derived from both experiments indicates the mere presence of mobile phones inhibited the development of interpersonal closeness and trust, and reduced the extent to which individuals felt empathy and understanding from their partners.”
This means that the very presence of a cellphone hinders good communication between people. And if you take into account all the information on our cellphones that we routinely share or access — pictures, phone numbers, music, news — it becomes clear that it is very hard to communicate with someone face-to-face without eventually diverting some of our attention to that small device.
People increasingly rely on cellphones rather than computers, so this problem is only going to become worse. It’s true that we can’t read documents or track down information on cellphones with the same ease as on bigger screens, but that is a small price to pay for the convenience of having virtually the whole world in the palm of your hand.
In fact, most of us can’t get by without our phones any more: Our businesses, governments and families depend on cellphones for all sorts of reasons. What we can do is set new boundaries. And we can begin by taking a cue from Przybylski and Weinstein’s experiments.
I’ve set some new rules for my own cellphone use. When I have important things to discuss, I prefer to do so with cellphones put away. When I work out, I don’t carry my phone in my hand, and several nights ago I started switching off the ringer when I turn out the light to go to sleep. In an effort to break my addiction, I try not to check my cellphone first thing in the morning: My first contact each day should be with a human being, not a machine. I’m happy to report that the world has not ended and my stress levels have gone down a few notches.
When you turn your cellphone on, you turn the rest of the world off. My goal is to keep my phone turned off more of the time — or at least at a healthy distance, as so many wise patrons do at Eva. I am sure they find the food that much tastier and the conversation that much more enjoyable for it.