Uses and Abuses of Mobile Phones

Let me begin by saying that the advent of mobile phones has been one of the unique features of modern-day information technologies. It has given a new dimension to personal communication helping people to be in touch with one another during times of sickness in the family or an emerging crisis.

Our streets have become unsafe also due to terror attacks like the kidnapping of young girls and boys for ransom. Mobile phones, therefore, have become indispensable also for young school, and college-going boys and girls. Like elsewhere mobile phones have also become one of the key elements of communication for law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

All said and done, however, one cannot overlook some of the typical abuses of mobile phones that take place here in this country.

I find it to be heavily misused by our generation. I have come across young people talking and gossiping on issues of no consequence. They often talk throughout the night leaving their studies. To my mind, mobile phones are also instrumental in causing irreparable damage to the morals of our younger generation who also use them at random for viewing pornography.

Of great annoyance is also this business of people talking over mobile phones while crossing roads or driving cars, which is very dangerous.