Each piece of technology has its own merits and demerits, and the use of mobile phones is no exception. When you take its positive role into consideration, its impact on students, the use has far-reaching benefits and advantages. The fact of the matter is that mobile phones came into existence for emergency purposes. A student with a phone can contact police at any harmful and challenging situation, or contact fire brigade if they find fire somewhere. So, the mobile phone is one of the best solutions for any emergency situation.
Now take the question of mobiles as knowledge benefactors. The internet helps us much more than olden days. Previously, the library would help the students to gain some extra knowledge and now the whole library is in the students’ pocket in the form of a mobile phone, which serves as a great knowledge reservoir. You can search anything by the stroke of your finger and get the great explanations and answers.
For elders, the excessive use of mobile phone may not be fruitful and desirable in the sense that it, in the long run, it makes the user mobile-dependent. A modern mobile-user is often addicted to watching of Facebook, emails, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, WhatsApp and other social networking platforms. This diminishes the ability of actual human communication and sociability resulting in a void in our modern-day society. Thus, the excessive use of mobile phones not only hamper the routine study of students and elders both, but add to their distraction for other worthy social pursuits.
In short, excess of everything is bad. The use of mobile phones should be limited to the extent it suits our time, suffices our immediate needs and makes us intelligent and aware about the work we are interested in.
- The reader is a professor based in Ajman.
