Mobile Effect – Minute by Minute update kids!
February 26th, 2009 by Annkur
Kids addicted to their Mobile Phones is a common disease today! I can see it all around me. Texting as if its an IM; Phone calls as if its breath. I feel blessed that my generation had those communication barriers, it allowed us so much time for our selves. That wait for a friend who is on his way to visit me, that importance of a get together, the feeling of seeing people face to face and not chatting/talking over a network…
The cellphone has certainly tampered with teen culture. And this change certainly comes with a turbulence. Children getting their hands on a cellphone @ Age of 8 is certainly now an encouraging figure. Kids are stuck to their cellphones like honeybees. Over a family dinner but a outgoing message every 30secs. In a college lecture but still connected via SMS to a dozen people (often in the same class), left alone for a min and there they go on a call… (Remember the Spanish kids sent to mental institute to get rid of cellphone addiction?)
No wonder the father of a 13yr old gets a 440-page cell phone bill! This minute by minute update kid has sent 14,528 text messages in a month. i.e. 484 messages everyday, one message every 2 mins! Not sure if she managed a world record, but WOW 
. The latest of such incidents being the 14yr old girl who was arrested for refusing to stop texting during a high school math class.
So was the Karnataka Govt plan to ban mobile for kids justified?
Welcome to the next generation! These are all connected, networked Minute by Minute kids second by second kids ….!
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Categories: Concept / Educative, Reviews | Tags: addiction, cellphone, culture, kids, kids addiction, mobile, mobile addiction
Kids used to be wired to the wall with their phone. They are still on phone, but this time it is wireless & they are texting more than they are talking. But even experts can’t agree on whether texting is good for kids social development and makes them better writers, or whether it is having an extremely detrimental effect (http://tinyurl.com/ck9s2l).
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