mobile mania
... out of every 100 people owning a mobile phone.The mobile-phone sector in the UAE has recorded one of the fastest growth rates in the region over the past five years, racing at between 30 to 50 per cent. The mobile-phone trade is a very profitable business here as most users keep updating their phones, while the introduction of camera and video phones and the multi-media message services has helped the market to grow. We can call it mobile-phone mania in the UAE.Dealers estimate that between 1.5 million and 2 million mobile phones were sold in the country last year with a value of nearly Dh2 billion ($545 million). But the mobile-phone technology is fast becoming a double-edged sword. While it gives us constant connectivity, a sense of security and helps us in communicating in an advanced and fast manner, it is also becoming “the stress factor” in our lives. Constant accessibility has put us on 24 hrs of duty. This technology is also alienating us from our near and dear ones as most people basically like to keep in touch by calling rather than going and meeting the other person. Most mobile owners also make the habit of ignoring or paying less attention to the person sitting right beside him/her while chatting up with a distant relation.Such lack of attention and acknowledgement causes rifts between close ones and hurts or angers others. Mobile phones have also become unsafe. Some people are misusing the technology to harass/threat others, and even breach the privacy. Road accidents-one of the biggest killers in the u.a.e -to a great extent are caused due to mobile phone distractions. And another important expect is the increase in our expenses because of mobile phones and its maintenance. Research has already shown that excessive use of mobile phones harms the health of individuals. Headaches,earaches,stress,fatigue,sleeping disorder and short-term memory loss are some of the bad-effects of mobile phones. Moreover, extensive research is being done on mobile phone radiations and its effect on human beings. Although the modern society has become really health conscious, its ongoing obsession with the mobile technology is less likely to tone down.But, as the doctors suggests,caution must be taken fr...