(Wrote this for my college mag)
I still remember the day when we got a landline telephone at my place after a very long wait from the time of booking. It was a miraculous moment, no more going to STD booths to make the “trunk” calls by screaming on top of your voice and talking oh so less afraid that the bill might burn a hole in your pocket. It was a proud moment, you could tell everyone your number and that may want him or her to get one too. And they had to wait for a long time to get one.
Well that was more than a decade ago, Things are a bit different these days, people will be very surprised if you say you don’t have a cellular phone. They will try to console you by saying “ don’t worry beta, you ‘l get one soon”. With the advent of affordable, easy to use, and not a look alike of a cordless phone people are going bonkers for mobile phones. The busyness of a mobile phone market place will put a fish market to shame. With great marketing strategies and just the ease at which you can get a new phone is doing wonders for the telecomm industry, which is booming like sky as the limit.
The future of India is in the hands of the youngsters and in their hands is a Mobile phone. It gives you a great feeling; you can talk to anyone anytime anywhere for no good reason. Nowadays it’s more like a “must be accessory”. People are extremely addicted to it and especially the youngsters, which just adds to the peer pressure if you belong to the unfortunate lot who don’t carry a mobile phone all the time.
“Will you just stop playing around with mobile and get back to studying!” seems to be the most used dialogue of the parents in any household with a teenager who has a mobile phone. It is more or less an obsessive-compulsive behavior (exaggeration, I know), people just keep checking if they got a message or checking their balance or keep unlocking and locking their keypad and what not. With Sms jokes, wishes, shayaris, forwards (both wanted and unwanted) its great for the purpose of communication and just to stay in touch with all your buddies...Innit?
Besides the very useful things about it, it gets annoying at times. When the guy next to you in the theatre keeps getting calls and his phone rings in the highest volume possible (to lazy to keep it in silent and rather chooses not to), or your serious conversation ends abruptly because the other person has to take the call immediately and the list goes on and on. To some it is an addiction, buying the latest model so that his conscience doesn’t kill him with the inferior feeling that he is not the guy with wackiest phone around. Thanks to few irresponsible kids playing around with multimedia phones the educational institutions are very keen on the ban on its usage (not that it is stopping anyone) and it is definitely here to stay.
Use it, break it, ring it, text it, game it, Love it but you cant hate it because you just cant ignore it.
The mobile phone is simple awesome (be it chotu or O2)!
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