As a writer, I have developed an obnoxious habit of
observing people, and it does irritate me sometimes to see how some people can
waste hours of productive hours on mobiles. Why can’t an accounts manager
remember that the payment is pending since 3 months? Why, over a course of 40
minutes, does a senior executive trade 15 emails to organise a simple coffee
meeting, only to be postponed to the next day? Why does a manager from real
estate company waste the entire meeting in talking about his inspirations that
are not even remotely related to the project?
If you are an owner of a smartphone that has made it
possible for you to read this on mobile, the surprising answer to these apparently
unrelated questions might literally be stretching out in the palm of your hand.
With a massive and rapidly increasing user base, smartphones
have now become a core part of our lives. Sprouting far beyond the basic productivity
tools in the early 2000s, Blackberrys, iPhones and Android handsets have
acquired a dominant position in the mobile industry. The value proposition? Work
and play faster, smarter, longer, and better. I also found that over 50% of
young professionals rank mobile phones as the most vital technology that helps
them to work. Cloud computing ranked second at 14%.
More interesting than rating people’s dependency on their
phones, is observing their behaviour behind the exploding usage. While speaking
to some smartphone users, I found their ehaviour shifts very surprising. One user
commented, “I’m always scheduling things on my phone and it tells me when to do
what”. "By the time I check all my phone notifications, new ones just
swamp me”, said another.
I am not a psychologist, but am not even so naïve to find
out that the overall results are stunning: frequent use of smartphone imposes crucial
psychological costs, and it impacts our professional and personal lives in four
ways:
- · We don’t remember anything anymore because now smartphones do that for us.
- · We’ve forgotten to use our mind to work out simple calculations because our phone gives us inbuilt calculator
- · We are wasting time by indulging into irrelevant data downloads
- · It keeps us hooked to social networking and within FaceBook, Twitter, Linkedin – the actual me has got lost.
6 comments:
Very good observation. I liked it very much and I will put it into practice.
I THINK ,WE SHOULD FOLLOW THIS FOR BETTER 2013
I don't think this applies to all the smart phone users. Some are sensible who use it for business purposes, although most of the people I know overuse it.
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Samrt phones have made people their slaves, and I totall agree to whatever you have written.
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