| I am standing in a queue at the supermarket. The woman in front of me is talking on her mobile while the shop assistant is filling her bags. I'll say something if she doesn't stop soon. No, I won't. My phone's ringing now. If it's my boyfriend, I'll tell him he's late again! ' Oh, it's you Mum. Well, I'm just...' Why are we so addicted to mobile phones? Why do we love them? There are now over forty million people in Britain with mobiles and if the present trend continues, every man, woman and child in Britain will soon have one- or two, or three! They can be expensive and are possibly bad for us. You can spend a fortune if you use your mobile a lot. According to some scientists, if we go on using mobiles, we'll cook our brains. Some people even think that radiation from mobiles causes cancer. Also, we just spoil our eyesight sending text messages to somebody all the time. Nowadays many people wear glasses. Psychologists say we are becoming dependent on mobiles. Dr Oliver James talks about 'phoneliness'- in morden society we are lonely, so if people ring us up or send us text messages, we feel wanted. Teenagers are among the biggest users of mobiles, and 'texting' is creating a new language full of abbreviations such as 'How RU?' In Japan, surveys show teenagers are reading less and mobile use is affecting the marks of secondary school students. If a child has a mobile phone he quarrels with his parents more often because he wants to spend all day in front of the screen, also, he wants his parents to pay for different programmes in his mobile phone (like the ICQ, the Internet etc.) A big problem in Britain is crime. Last year half a million British teenagers were victims of mobile phone theft. As technology improves, mobiles can do more and more. If you have one of the new multimedia mobiles, you can log on to the Net, pay for things, play games, interact with TV programmes and take photos to send to your friends. We can use our mobile as an alarm clock, so we can be woken up by our favourite song! Very tempting, isn't it? If I have the money next month, I'll get one of those new ones with a camera...I'll be able to send photos of the supermarket queue to my boyfriend. And if I get one with an Internet connection, I won't have to come to this surpermarket at all. I'll sit at home and order everything with my mobile. What a good idea! This new means of communication is about 20 years old but has changed as all and made our life absolutely different. P.S.: read more in Rina's essay by clicking on the link below: http://groupa.ucoz.co.uk/board/evaluative_essays/evaluative_essays_written_by_students/new_means_of_communication_change_us_all_forum_analysis_by_rina/34-1-0-151
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