A cellphone is a device used to make and receive phone calls. These devices enable you to communicate with anyone, any time no matter the distance and the place as long as there is a network coverage in your area.
It is due to cellphones that the world recently has turned into a global village, and this is a sharp contrast to the past when we did depend on telephone lines for communication. Although cellphones are advantageous and have made our life easier, people are still skeptical about carrying their cellphones everywhere due to their past experiences and fear of the unknown.
The most memorable experience while using my Android smart phone was the way it easily located my position. This happened since the phone was able to synchronize the goggle maps application on my phone. This made me phobic to carry my phone since I had given someone an incorrect address and the person was able to find out that I was lying.
Cellphones pose security threats to many people since they attract thieves who are usually stealing smartphones. Thus, most of the times people who do not want to be victims of robbery go about their daily activities without their cellphones in order to limit their vulnerability to robberies.
This makes them feel safe as most people keep some valuable documents in their cellphones such as work memos, daily schedules and their various personal identification numbers, thus by leaving phones at home or at their work place they stand a lesser chance of losing the data.
Some people use their phones to access social sites and electronic mail, and in case they lose their cellphones most of their personal information is lost as well. This poses a security threat to them and those around them especially if they are distinguished persons in society.
Cellphones ensure people are able to be reached at any time. Hence, when some people do not want to be contacted, they just want to have a peaceful time without interference. Therefore, they tend to leave their cellphones behind so that they are able to go about their daily activities without interference. Carrying the cellphones is sometimes hectic for them too, since such people do not want to be reached at times, thus they will only ensure they carry their cellphones when they want to be reached.
The new designs of cellphone are also scary as some phones especially smart phones usually have global positioning system. Hence, they can be traced in case of anything. Cellphones provide an easier avenue of tracing a person since if a phone is on, there is usually a way of tracing its owner through the use of internet protocol addresses.
More so, if it is used for internet access, this makes phones phobic due to the fear of being traced or followed by someone or even a stalker. Hence, by leaving the cellphone, they tend to be safe and confident that no one can follow them using their cellphones (Kang 6).
In addition, carrying a cellphone around is usually a burden for some people who feel it is a burden, since it is always in their pockets or their hands. This group or category of people is more prone to losing their phones because carrying the phones everywhere around increases the likelihood of forgetting one somewhere. Since they may forget or misplace the cellphone while undertaking their daily activities. Thus, it seems to be wiser to leave the cellphone at home or in the office so that to make sure the phone is not lost or misplaced.
Health factors and risks that are associated with cellphones are also a reason why many people prefer not to carry their cellphones around since recent research shows that the radiation from cellphones tend to cause chronic diseases and cancer that are still under research. Some people are scared of the effects of using their cellphones all the time.
This is most probably caused by various prejudices and stories that people hear about the consequences of using cellphones even though they might not have concrete evidence whether all those diseases are caused by the radiation from the cellphone. People’s reasons are purely speculative but understandable since some people are usually ignorant of these facts, although these are not surefire reasons why some people are afraid of carrying their cellphones (Saylor 12).
Technophobic people do not carry their cellphones along when doing their normal duties, these people sometimes even do not have a cellphone since they are usually highly conservative by nature and ignorant of technology, they do not accept it, or they are not willing to learn more about it.
Such people think technology is not really significant for the present day society. They also are afraid of the costs that are associated to it such as the purchase of airtime, fees for internet and email access. The ignorance is caused by the lack of proper understanding of how technology works and the concept behind the operation of cellphones. This is the reason why people do not carry cellphones since they do not want to incur costs that they do not understand.
Works Cited
Kang, Cecilia. “China to Track Cellphones, Causing Human Rights Concerns.” Washington Post. 2011. Web.11 Nov 2012.
Saylor, Michael. Mobile Wave: How Mobile-Intelligence Will Change Everything. New York: Vanguard Press, 2012.