By Norzarina Norhidullah
“I can’t live without phone. I
felt like a dumb. I don’t know what I should do. Who should I meet? How i’m
gonna set a meeting with people? Seriously, I can’t thinking a way out from
this blur symptom other than having a phone. Having a phone give me a sense of
normal people,” this is some
quoted that I got when I’m trying to asked my friend about how she feel when I
challenge her for not using phone anymore.
Then, how actually we ever survived before using a
phone?
How actually we live?
How actually we breathe?
Is it phone are already be given to us from the day we
was born?
Of course not. We don’t born with the phone. We born
with our body. We born single without followed by anything.
The true things is maybe because we already being
pampered by that kind of technology called PHONE. Phone give us facilities
until we should not move by inches just to set a meeting with someone. Phone
give us simple way of life just to share our condition to our beloved family.
Just using a phone.
Did you ever heard about ‘Kad Raya’ or any card that
given when the celebration of something happened? Once upon a time, that’s card
is a trending. In 1960-1990, postmen was very busy just to send that’s card to
people in Malaysia. But now, even the Post Office are very desolate. People
does not want waste their time just to go to Post Office to send the ‘Kad Raya’
although ‘Kad Raya’ is kind of nostalgia and memorable to some people. Why? Is
it because people being lazy? Is it because people already have their
technology on their hand so that’s why they shouldn’t bothers themselves just to go to Post Office
to send Kad Raya?
That’s the issues. How actually we survived before we use
a phone? Either handphone or smartphone, public phone or housephone, how did
people actually survived before using a phone? The time when we are 9 years old
to 16 years old, averagely. How we meet people without contact them using phone? How we finish our work without searching the information through phone? How we
send a love quotes to our beloved family and lover without send the text using phone?
If not us, how actually generation before us survived
for not using a phone?
Hey guys, regarding this issue I think that phones are not the problem. Sometimes, since the advancement of technology nowadays. it made us human to forget the traditional way as it it easier. For example, by using snail mail, there is no guarantee that the letter will be arriving and that had made us choose phones to send messages. However, it does not mean that I did not miss the old fashion trends. Technology made it so easy that it does not have any sentimental meaning anymore. It would be nice if the traditional ways of sending message becomes a trend again :)
ReplyDeletePhone is a type of technology that peoples create it in order to connect with each other easily. In other word, phones shorten the distance between two or more people. However, nowadays people are treat phone as a companion instead of using it to contact with others. When you walk around or sitting around, you will notice that people are using the phone to play games, search information, using social media to express themselves or share funny things to others. It might fulfil their life but it causes them lack of face to face communicate skills. Without a phone, people might start lonely but it depends on how they see it and use it. Phone is just a channel for human communicate. If possible, we should face to face communicate instead of using gadget as channel to communicate. It because face to face communicates is more attach with each other.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, phones today are not simply phones. Compared to the initial phone models back in the 1990s, the handheld devices we have in our pockets today are way more multipurpose than ever before. I can totally understand why people are so dependent on their smartphones. This lightweight portable machine allows us to conveniently connect with others, play games, take photographs, set alarms and even design artworks. So many applications can be squeezed into the convenience of a palm-sized device. How can anyone not use this technology? As long as we utilise our phones for good use, I do not see why there is an issue on our 'rapport' with phones =)
ReplyDeleteIn this issue, I also do not see any problem with the phones. It is just because of the advancement of technology make people change their traditional way of greetings such as the sending of 'Kad Raya' with the only send the messages through the modern way. Let us imagine, how much time consuming in order to send the greeting cards to our friends even thought it has special meaning into it? Of course it will takes some times to receive it. Plus, by using this smartphones, we still can send the virtual greeting cards to our friends. In addition, the smartphones actually helps us a lot. For example, we want to find the specific places to go. By turning on GPS on our smartphones, we can arrive that places without fail. Therefore, whatever we want to do is still applicable with the new modern way. It is just us who want to suit into that way or not.
ReplyDeleteHi Norzarina,
ReplyDeleteTechnological sophistication making telephone a gadget that immensely complex. In my opinion, telephone nowadays can simplify a lot of work. For instance, you no longer need to carry a camera to take a picture, no longer need to using pc to downloading pdf’s journal, etc. Then, I have my own perspective for its function to send Hari Raya greeting using “kad raya” instead of using telephone. This is because, until now I still received greeting card during Hari Raya. For me, there is difference between give “kad raya” compare to bidding “Selamat Hari Raya” via telephone and I prefer using “kad raya”.
It is undeniable that a smartphone is an important part of our lives. It is almost considered as our limb or a vital organ to be able to function daily. I think to compare with the previous generation as to how they survived without smartphone, is rather unfair and unreasonable. This is because we live in a world of technological era today, where smartphones have become a necessity in our lives. It substitutes other gadgets like camera, computer and etc. You cannot deny the power of smartphones today. Don’t believe me, try living a life without a smartphone.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the invention of the phone has helped us tremendously in our lives but you do have a point when you say that we have become over-dependent on it that we can't function properly without it. As for sending cards, believe it or not, I am still quite the snail mail user when it comes to celebrating a friend's or family member's birthday when we're far apart. It feels more intimate somehow though I have nothing against sending wishes through text.
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