Analysis on Cell Phone-Dependency – Are They Our Best Friends?

Imagine this: you wake up, go to work, run errands, get back home and you are never ever interrupted by the funky melody you selected on your cell phone. No way, you might think! Or, to others, this might seem like the worst nightmare. What, no cell phone? What life is that, when I am not connected to people, to the outside reality? What if something happens? What if I need something urgently? All these might sound familiar to you, if you are one of those cell phone-dependant individuals who lost the much needed item once and had to deal with the tragic loss for at least one day. One horrible day, right? Ok, but is this attitude and, let’s say it straight: dependency… desperation healthy? Just ask yourself: how did people survive like 15 years ago, when there was no mobile phone in sight?

The fact is that the cell phone is just a tiny example from what can be called “the technically optimized world”. The phrase “I can’t live without Internet” is redundant by now – wow, that happened fast! – and the cell phone seems to be the runner up on the “Things I Can Not Live Without” list. Or, for that matter, on the “3 Things to Take on a Deserted Island” list – who needs matches and knives to eat and survive, when you have your tiny silver friend with digital camera and mp3 player, have loads of fun, chat and call for food or help?

But we have to give the cell phones some credit. It might not be healthy to depend on a device that runs on battery, but the thing is that at least, the mobile phones promote communication between people – as opposed to other “I Can Not Live Without” technical wonders that, let’s say, computer games, which promote detaching from the real world and entering, enjoying and basically living in a fantasy. So, as long as we remain fixated in the reality and we relate to people and not imaginary friends produced by high tech and science, then cell phones gain points.

But let’s not leave aside the number one flaw of the mobile phones, namely the stress they cause. Why doesn’t he answer? Why doesn’t she call? Why do they call me every other second?, plus the constant bugging and interrupting from any type of daily activity. But hey, we created it, we wanted it and now, we can’t live without it. It is just how it works.

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