The Significance of Mobile Phones in Today’s Society

The cellphone has become in an essential device for everybody. On the streets, trains, supermarkets even driving a car, you can see people on their phones. If you forget your cellphone at home, probably you’re going to come back to get it even if you are late to work. The importance of the cellphone in our life has changed over the years. This device was invented to communicate with people easier than before. For example, in an emergency, you can call for help at any situation, and the cellphone has an emergency button, which connects you to emergency services and allows them located you via satellite.

Cellphones allow you to keep in touch with your friend and family at all time, making a phone call or texting a message, , but with the development of new technologies, smartphones are capable of storing data, listening to music, taking pictures, sending e-mails, surfing the web, making business deals, watching television and updating the social networks. This relation between the Internet and the necessity of be connected 24/7, the cellphone has become in an indispensable tool in many aspects of life.

Mobile and Social Networks

You can access to the different social networks from your cellphone. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc, are icons that appear in the screen of your cellphone since you buy it. This social network help you to keep in touch with your friend and relatives, sharing a picture or posting a status, allow your friend or followers knowing where are you and how you feel. People avoid making a call or having a conversation face-to-face, limiting itself only to place a photo on Facebook, like or comment a post or twitter or checking the Facebook’s profile of friend, but what happened with the personal contact. Social networks is helping to make the right connection? To have access to social network so easily helps to lose contact with the people around us, and let you fall into addiction to these networks. A lot of people spend much of their time reviewing new post on Facebook and twitter without thinking how much time they have wasted on it, and that they could have done more important things during that time.

Mobile and Business

Companies using mobiles to contact the personnel at all times, whether in or out of the office. A cellphone make a member of the business reachable any time. In the other side, employees use their cellphone to be focused, and update of any change or operation in the company. They recipe and send email and use new-age tools and applications to do presentation or modify documents. Also Mobile phones provide programs that allow users to organize and schedule their day in order to maintain productivity and meet goals and deadlines.

Although cellphone and the access to the Internet help companies to organized and control their business operation there are some disadvantages in this situation. The fact that you can be contact by your co-workers at all-time make animportant question about the line between your private life and office work. Phone calls or important email can disrupt important moment that you share with family and friend. There is no way to disconnect from your work and enjoy your free time

Mobile and Entertainment

Besides people use their phone to connect to social networks, they use it for entertainment. With a cellphone you can surf the Internet, watch news in real-time, listening to music or watching videos, even many phones offer the option to watch TV and movies. These devices are a good option when you are bored, but what happen when they interfere with our interpersonal relationship. In many occasions as hanging out with friends, eating out, watching a movie to the cinema, etc, people forget that they have someone at their side and focused on their cell phone.

In a conversation, the other person may be playing some new application that he has just installed on the phone, tuning out the people who are actually in the same room as him. Although the phone is a good tool to entertain us in leisure time, you cannot allow it to affect your social relationships. Be aware that technology can be turned off, and that it's important to connect with people in person.

Over the past decade, the increasing importance of cell phones has made them almost a necessity for most people. It offers many services that make their users life easier than years ago, but also affect the social relationships. Like other technology it is not good or bad, it is how it’s used and who i’s used with. The greatest challenge is figured out how to achieve a balance between personal and social relationship and the benefits of the used of cellphone.