So,
I type this out in full fury, taunted for not owning a smart phone, which in
turn makes me the not so smart types too. Fury? Yes. Girl 1 has been growing up
with one, girl 2 managed to buy one last year, girl 3 keeps buying one after
the other, girl 4 considers it a status symbol, girl 5 has always wanted to buy
1 since Steve Jobs arrived, and girl 6 has been eating my head to buy 1 now. And
where does it all take me to? The world in your hands? Common, now. That tag line
goes with every other gadget around. No offence meant, but how many smart phone
users would ever claim to have bought one for the need for it, rather than the
want for it? And as for every second thing, your neighbours tempt you into
buying one. Beyond Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, there are a dwindling
number of users per application. An application for every other thing. You
never know, for tomorrow there could be a smart phone application to know your
neighbours, too ;) for that’s what the so called leaps in communication
technology have caused- an irreversible gap in our real world social lives. 9
upon 10 heads in a group are bent down tapping their time away. (And the one
left out is me, if you dint know :P) Dependence on gadgets has become the order
of the day. Every day things-to-do are now thrust into the application. Life
becomes easier, girl 6 says. But, was it tougher? And have we become smarter at
all? Darwin’s heart would have ached to pieces. Get a phone, and seem smart.
Sigh. Thats the take home lesson for the day. Of course, my first investment
with my salary would be- no brownie points for guessing!
