Are You A Considerate Mobile Phone User?
Monday, November 30th, 2009Here in the west nearly everyone now has a mobile phone. We should all be aware that around half of the worlds population will have never made or received a telephone call.
This really highlights the technological gulf that exists between the developed countries and the developing countries.
But many would argue that, while mobile phones can be enormously useful, they can also be incredibly irritating. Have you recently used any form of public transport?
I routinely travel by train to and from London and I’m forced to listen to various telephone conversations that, before the mobile phone revolution, would have never taken place. On my homeward journey I regularly listen to people calling their partners just to tell them: ‘I’m on the train’. And every evening I have to listen to the same people making the same calls with the same useless message. How did they manage before mobile phones?
I’m also forced to listen to teenagers engaged in long drawn out conversations that don’t appear to make any sense. Their conversations seem to be focused on their boring lives, the television programmes they’ve been watching or criticising their boyfriends. In one conversation that was heard recently a young lady described a recent sexual experience with a young man in far too much detail. As she proceeded to describe her experience in far too much detail everyone in the compartment was squirming with embarassment.
Forcing other people to listen to one side of your telephone conversation is just one aspect of modern mobile phone use that is incredibly annoying. Another is people who use their mobiles to play their music far too loudly without any thought for others who might not like hip hop music.
Everyone needs to be reminded of how lucky they are to own a mobile phone. Owning a mobile phone is not a god given right, it’s a privelige that should not be provided to people who use it to describe their sex lives, loudly.
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