In todays world, most especially in our close society at Babson, we have demonstrated that it is a social norm to have a cell phone. Why did the ownership of the cell phone become a necessity in our lives. Was it our parents who shaped our generations need for cell phones by wanting to be able to reach there children at all times? Or are cell phones really a essential part to keeping in touch with all our social contacts in this new technological age. Somehow our parents and our parents parents got by without cell phones. So do why do we need them? Personally, I have been without my cell phone for a week and it has made me think more about our generations dependence on cell phones. Some where along the road the cell phone industry transformed our want for cell phones into a need. They were able to use the media to make there point of having cell phones to be a social norm. Now the media is trying to transform another one of our wants into a need. With new smart phones that come equipped with numerous applications, the media is trying to say it is not enough to just have a regular phone. Slowly we are all becoming more an more dependent on our phones and losing sigh of some of the personal mediums around us.
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ReplyDeletePeter, you need to pay attention to some symptoms of your writing style, and make these following changes:
ReplyDelete1) end a question with a question mark (even if it's a rhetorical question)
2) avoid big, vague words (e.g. "the media" is trying to ... who's the media? specify)
3) learn to lay out a theme, make an argument, instead of casting ideas around without going into depth into any of them; don't write like the "stream of consciousness"
You can do better next time! :)
b.c.e.
pete
ReplyDeletei think it is an interesting point on why cell phones became a necesity. but at first i do believe that it was from our parents necesity to know where we are at all times. i could tell you this from experience because specially for me coming from mexico, it is not aa safe place, and my parents would freak out when i didnt pick up my phone. however it has made them more paranoid and dependent on technology.
salo
Pete you bring up an interesting point on how our society has developed the necessity to always have our cell phone. i know i am one that if i dont have my cell phone with me at all times i feel like i lose a life line. its pretty scary how much our society today relies on the use of technology. i couldnt imagine what it would have been like 30 years ago with communication.
ReplyDeletePeter,
ReplyDeleteI can remember when my parents began to rely on cell phones. I was fairly young at the time, but I can also remember how we lived without them. Life was a lot different because I actually had my friends house phone numbers memorized. I could recite ten phone numbers off the top of my head. Now, I rely on my contacts list. It has been an interesting progression for sure.
Peter: you have spotted a bit point about society within our demographics. I think we are not only addicted to our phone but we are trapped with them and slaved to them. Ok, maybe the law in Mass has changed that it is illegal to text and drive now, but that doesnt change the fact that around campus most students still walk and text on their blackberries. Moreover, if i don't pick up my cell phone when my parents call i usually get a rude voice mail blaming for not staying in touch with my parents, so what if i was at the gym and left my phone at home, i feel our generation is truly enslaved to the media and cell phones.
ReplyDeleteI agree that parents have been instrumental in our needs for cell phones as they want to be able to contact their children at all times. I also think the corporate world has increased people's reliance on cell phones. Cell phones allow us to instantly interact with other people, whereas if we had to rely on office phones, it may take a few days to get in contact with someone.
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