ONLINE REFLECTION 1:
"THE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE IPHONE OBSESSION"
After read the article “The First Five Years of the iPhone Obsession”, by Peter Burrows, I only could think in one thing: send my mobile phone to the garbage.
Nowadays, we are in a consumer society and one of our favorite whims is the technology. Technology advances very fast (sometimes in a ridicule way, like those Chinese robots, which dance Flamenco if you clap) and we want to advance at the same time. For that reason, everyone loves buy the best laptop or mobile phone.
Specifically, this article talks about the famous brand iPhone. This kind of mobile phone allow be connected in every moment, every day, everywhere. Generally, this “modernity” can have two different effects. On one hand, maybe you don’t like be localizable all the time, so sometimes you would prefer don’t have any apps like Whatsapp or Facebook. On the other hand, it’s possible that you love tell everything about your life: what you are doing, with who, which are your feelings and thoughts…
Apps like Twitter or Facebook can be addictives for some people. Firstly, you can think: It’s so stupid write about my life in internet. But actually, it’s another kind of communication during these days. For this, a big majority have the necessity of write about everything. And when I say “everything” is everything… If few years ago someone had told me: “In the future, people will love to write publically things like: “I’m cooking”, “I love him!” or “I’m going to the bathroom, I’m coming soon!” I hadn’t believed him. But now, this is our generation.
In my case, I can’t critique a lot those behaviors because I have got these apps and even I have a blog. I justify my “mobile phone and apps addiction” basically in two reasons. The first one is that, as I said before, these inventions allow us be connected with people who aren’t close us. So, with Facebook or Twitter you can feel that person close. The second reason is that I’m an Erasmus student and everyone wants to know about my new life, the country, my friends… It’s easier to have a blog and write there all the information, instead of tell one to one the same.
Besides, in the article, we can read about new phenomena like “the phantom vibration”, which have appeared with these technologies. I have to confess that I have felt it. Furthermore, it’s common too to have that state of anger when you lost your internet connection, or that necessity to test out that your message has been sent and read (the known “double check”).
From my point of view, it’s a bit sad and worrying to be so connected to a machine, but we have to know that the generations change and we change with them. So, this is our kind of life.
Now, you only can decide if you prefer an iPhone or another brand, with internet connection or without it.
