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Technology is great, ain’t it? Right, all that self-absorbed mobile communication and music connoisseur-ing couldn’t possibly have any real-world social implications.
Oh wait, it turns out that the 84% penetration in the mobile phone market is helping to make people more averse to social interactions. Some people would call his being “shy.” Harvard researcher Robin Abrahams says that mobile phones and portable music players are something of a safe harbor for people to hide from having to deal with today’s increasingly complex social interactions. It used to be that 40% of people “reported being shy in social situations,” that statistic has increased to afflict about half of all people in the US.
So, maybe all that SMS text messaging and iPod-listening is doing more bad than good. Stop all that mobile chatting and call your friend. Pause that latest “Pink” album and chat up that lonely business-woman on the train – you two might hit it off.
Moral? Get yourself a healthy dose of social interaction, we hear it’s good for warding off that problem we all call “shyness.”
[Via: The Daily Telegraph]
About The Author
Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
