Me and My Mobile Phone - Best Friends Forever!!

Do you have a friend like this?

 Windows 7 Ad.

Mobile phones will be the death of many friendships. 

It's hard to believe that the portable electronic device connecting people everywhere could infact create greater distance between them.

More and more often I notice that when I am spending the time to catch up with a friend, they spend the whole time staring at their mobile! I ask them a question or tell them a story and look up to see that they are paying more attention to their new best friend; the phone.
Hannah mentions in her blog that sometimes the media can help people create a different version of themselves. Could this be why so many people are more focused on their 'mobile phone life' than reality?

What could possibly be more important?! Windows 7 Ad.

Bell (2006) suggests that we are "the age of the thumb". We use mobile phones for almost everything in our daily lives from emailing to banking and checking our favourite social networking sites! Not to forget keeping in contact with people through talk and text. 

With a phone that does so much, it's no wonder that my friends and many others in society don't feel the need to socialise outside their phone. 

Perhaps next time I want their advice or opinion I should just text message them?

Reference List

Bell, G. (2006). The Age of the Thumb: a Cultural Reading of Mobile Technologies from Asia Knowledge, Technology, & Policy, 19 (2), 41-57.
Whiteley, H 2011. Hannah Whiteley and New Media. Retrieved http://hannahwhiteley.blogspot.com/ 4 April 2011
Liquid Squid 2011. Really? New Windows 7 Phone ad. Retrieved http://laughingsquid.com/really-new-windows-7-phone-ad/ 4 April 2011