Connection amongst strangers
I was on the minibus from Jordon to Gold Coast. A guy sat in front of me and he kept talking on the mobile phone with her girlfriend. When the mini bus got around Siu Lam, he did not know where he was. So he kept asking where was her girlfriend and told her what he saw(I saw many trees, just over the bridge, i saw the BBQ sign...) And a very friendly middle age women offered help and told him you were in Siu Lam and the next stop would be Gold Coast. The mini bus driver overheard too and asked "where is your girlfriend? How is she look like? Is she going to get on this bus? This bus is not going to Yuen Long!(The destination of the bus was intended to go to Yuen Long)" When the bus got to Gold Coast and her girlfriend got on the bus and the driver told them, I could take you both to the mini bus stop that you could get bus to Yuen Long. The most amazing thing is that the guy did not ask for help, but everyone helped because we can hear clearly what he was talking about. The connection between Hongkongers started and ended in that journey.
The 3G window shopping
I was waiting for my friend in Time square, a huge plasma TV was over my head. I witnessed how the woman use her 3G moblie phone. She was so concetrated on the screen and wear the hand-free earphone, talking loudly over the phone, as if there was nobody but herself. "Wow.. really? That is so pretty! Yes, let's buy this one." Yes, she was doing a real virtual window shopping with her friend. I am amazed. She did not move arround, she just stood there and talk and talk and talk over 15 minutes. I was forced to overheard her whole conversation! As a 3G user myself, I do admit that sometime I talk to people via 3G. But it could not last long, the reception is not that good. Appoxiamtely for 3 -5 minutes just to find out where the person is (people do lie about where they are, very often...). It is impossible to move arround when you are talking and looking via the phone.
Confession...
I am not a peeking tom. But I did take picture of someone who I find funny. A little boy was playing with the pole in the train. He dance by using the pole. I could not resist to use my phone to take picture of him, and he did not know that.
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Mobile phone today cannot just be a mobile phone that could only receive and dial a call. It has to be packed with functionssss. Games, Walkman, GPRS system, camera, Internet connection, messaging, visual calling and many more in the future. When Camera married mobile phone, make every little thing become important. You could take picture whatever you want and the memory of that moment being enlarge. That moment might not be that important if you did not film it. But with the picture, you enlarge every little details of that experience. Mobile phone become our necessity, not only because the connection with people, but the additional functions that it contained. You can kill time by surfing the web using your cell, it can give you direction with the GPRS system, you have to check the email every five minutes to see if the client has confirmed the meeting or not.......
The connection between you and the phone is much more important than the connection between you and people arround you.
3 comments:
Do you think the connection between us and our phones come first place, replacing the connection we might have had with people otherwise? Do you think we're becoming less social?
Yes and No .. i guess.. Sometime people talk to people over the phone (or sending SMS ) and ignoring the person physically next to him.(Really annoying!) this is kind of social.. but
we are so unbelievably concentrated in the phone or PSP or other thing and we ignore the thing arround us. Like, you wont notice that an old man stand before you in MTR and if you noticed, you would probably offer him a seat.
I think we are social... but in a non-physical way.
I think we are becoming less social, but of course I am speaking from someone who prefers physical communication... but is it just a myth that we are becoming more social with the mobile phone?
Lisa
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