Mobile boom!!

Mobile boom!! Boon or a bane?? !! There has been a tremendous growth in the mobile phone usage for the past few years. Competition among the service providers, avialability of mobile phones for cheaper rates , free talk time, Closed User group facilities, SMS, various attractive schemes and offers, Radio and Internet facilities etc., etc., tempt people towards its usage.

Last week in Young World,I read a short storyof a student whose studies is spolied by mobile phone.That's true I would say. Once used to it, they are getting addicted to the use of mobile phones. That too when they start chatting by sending the text messages. When the sms is free of cost,tats it... (Ketkave vendam)!! That story clearly explains how a guy who scored good scores in his twelth standard spoiled himself by getting addicted to the mobile phone. They think that by continuosly sending messages, they are staying in touch with their classmates or so called friends. But they really miss many good things like talking with their parents, sharing with their true friends and relatives who have helped them, reading good and valuable boks etc., etc., I think this is a high time to realise the importance of time, its proper usage and balance the life without getting addicted to all these things by the name of modernisation. The ultimate aim of using the mobile phone is not attained I fear. People tend to think that the mobile phone they use, its cost and its features play an important role to reflect their position in the soceity. Though the aim is to contact a person whenever required irrespective of where they are, Sending some stupid forwards, transferring obscene pistures and vulgour jokes has become a part of its usage which has to be avoided. Also there is a saying in Tamizh which highlights the importance of Dressing :"Aadai illa manidhan arai manidhan". Now I would like to reframe that as "Mobile illa manidhan manidhane illai". The boom has been so much that if you don't have a mobile even after employed, people will look at you like anything. It has become a very basic thing which everyone has to have by default. The last few lines out of my own personal experience!! :) . In this context, I would like to thank Anna University and other colleges which strictly banned the mobile phone usage among the college students.

A few days before, I read an article that mobile phones are coming up with advanced features like, the message(sms) sent can be heard as voice messages so that visually impaired can make well use of that. There are pros as well as cons for any technology. No exception to this mobile phone and its usage as well.

We do know that mobile phones emit radiofrequency radiation from the handset and that these low-energy electromagnetic waves travel into the head. But do they cause injury to living tissue, possibly triggering a brain tumour or other disease? There has been contradictory answers to this.
Where ever possible:
1.use a land line;
2.use text messaging rather than voice;
3.and for voice calls on a mobile, use a headset.

I strictly follow point number 1 and use my home land line to make calls as my dad takes care of paying the phone bill :)