Mobile phones and internet

Just after the beginning of new millennium, mobile phones and internet has dramatically changed the scenario of the world. Distances are now the matter of history and communication is matter of a blink. Information spreads by the speed of imagination and one can get the relevant information on his will, anytime.

I can remember the time when we used to wait for the postman for the letters of our dear ones. Notices and information were collected through mails not e-mails. We used to wait for the news on T.V. or used to get informed through newspapers. Channels were limited and it was difficult to get newspapers in impassable areas. Transportation was also limited and most of the remote places were deprived by the growth because of lack of proper roads and transportation facilities.

Communication through mobile phones and internet has not only shrunk the entire world but also generated the demand for actual communication through transportation development on ground level. Communication made the people closer to each other hence generated markets for the products of various places. All this resulted infrastructural development and economic growth.

Information also brought development in other spheres of life like science and technology. There is huge amount of sharing of ideas among the people throughout the world and those ideas are being implemented on various research facilities. Technological and medical advancement of present world are result of that. Life is being easier and we have more money to spend for better life.

Prior to mobile phones, people were connected through land lines which were available only when the user was close to it. This was a difficult mode of communication because a person cannot sit around a telephone throughout the day, so the use was limited. Mobile phone gave the liberty to man to go anywhere, staying connected. Hence he could attend the calls anywhere without sacrificing his visits. Internet on the other hand created a platform for sharing data over the communication networks. Text, audio and video are now easily available through this channel anywhere in the whole world. Banking is now fully operational through this channel. Money is now virtualized because of the wire transfer that was once calculated in cash. Pockets keep plastic money instead of big bundles of cash and hence pickpocketing is a risky business now.

There are undoubtedly many benefits through these communication mediums, some drawbacks are also being arisen most of them are on social areas. We are although connected to our loved ones by means of these channels; we don’t feel the requirement of actual meeting. The reasons are psychological. We need someone when we have shortage of him and because of this virtual communication, we never feel that scarcity hence don’t require the actual meeting. This has created a huge social and psychological imbalance in relationship. We therefore have the new challenges in the entire new arena. We are needed to find out the intelligible uses of these communication channels without sacrificing our relationships then only we can say that we are on profit state.