Impact of Mobile Phones

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The mobile phone is considered as one of the greatest invention in the 20th century which highly boosts the community development of human race. Within the past decades, developing countries from the world have seen a remarkably rapid establishment of mobile phone networks which is still ongoing till now. It is a commonly agreed fact that the invention of mobile phone brings far-reaching impacts on our daily lives. As the percentage of mobile phone user increases directly proportional with the development of technology, humans are getting more and more dependent on technology as it has became a kind of necessity in life. Thus, it is very crucial for us to find out what exactly are the socio-economic impacts brought by mobile phones to human life. In the aspect of economy, improvement of major technology invention such as mobile phone is a kind of driver of growth. First of all, the invention of mobile phone increases job opportunities such as mobile phone retailers, telecommunication services and so on. It also promotes the overall growth of economy of the nation as mobile-money service helps us to manage our money online and or money transfer online. Next, it gives birth to different brands and models of mobile phone which makes the technology market to become more competent in terms of money making. The innovation related to electronic gadgets especially mobile phones are adopted more quickly in developed countries and hence, bringing a larger effect on developed countries compared to less developed countries. The impact of mobile networks on the environment sector is very significant. While the number of mobile phone user continues to grow, it causes environmental issues to arise and affects our daily life more or less. In t... ... middle of paper ... ...in real life. In advance, they are too eager to express themselves in virtual reality and how users interact and communicate in it clearly shows a lack of real life social interaction among mobile phone users. In the long run, an awareness among every mobile phone user should be created so that they are on high alert over the ill effects mobile phone while using one. Being a wise mobile phone user, all we can do is to minimize the unfavorable impact of using mobile phone by not using it addictively so that it continues to benefit us in every single way. Even though I strongly believe that it is impossible for us to go back in time before cell phones was invented, but the development of mobile phone must be in parallel with the community development so that mankind evolution won’t go backwards instead of forward, caused by over-development of science and technology.

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