Mobile Phones

Ah the Mobile Phone, how far you've come! It's transformed from a huge, heavy, cumbersome device that you'd lug around to one that can fit in the palm of your hand (or even your wrist), but the habit of making them smaller is a trend that is slowly being reversed. After striving to make them as small as possible, we're now seeing them increase in size, or at least their screens are getting bigger. But as phones have progressed, so have their features. Nowadays, the phone feature on a phone is superfluous to it's primary use as a device to connect to the internet for social networking. People are spending more and more time checking Facebook, Twitter, Vine et all., and it won't be long until they get rid of the phone feature altogether. I remember when got a phone as they first entered into the mainstream (when I was in my early teens in the mid-noughties), I would ring my friends every day. Slowly, calling evolved into texting, and now nobody bothers to talk to each other directly, they merely post an update on their social network and allow others to respond, resulting in passive conversations: Speaking to everybody and nobody at the same time. Technology has given us the ability to talk to our friends over vast distances in real time, with practically no delay, and we use it for constant, mindless updates over impersonal, virtual, social networking.

'Tis a shame.