Observations in Zhaokang Light Rail station

Last Friday, Jenny and I had observation about how people use mobile phones in Zhaokang Light Rail station. As Jenny mentioned, a women and asecondary female student used their phones to make appointments. They both talked about their future plans that people would not waste any time while waiting the trains.

There was an interesting phenomenon, while I walked towards two ladies talking in the phones, they both walked away. However, I just pretended to watch the line map. I didn’t know that it was whether a kind of privatizing the public space. Their voices were soft and walked around in the station. They expected others not listening to them. Moreover, a teenage girl phoned to a boy asking where was him. She asked him to be faster that she and her friends had already reached the destination. In the conversation, she had passed the phone to different people to talk with the boy. After a few minutes, the boy appeared opposite the station where the girls stood but they still talked in the phone. When girls watched the boy crossing the road, they asked him to walk faster in the phone. It seemed that the phone connect them from different space to the same space.

Apart from using the phone to communicate, one young girls used her phone to play games and her friend was looking at her and discussed with her. Besides, some adults also played the games in the phone while waiting the train. And people were very keen on sending messages that they typed very fast and put their phones in the pockets. Then they soon took the phones and sent the other messages again.

From the above observation, I think that mobile phone is closely related to time that everyone uses their phone to increase the speed of events and save their time.