Are Ipods promoting a more secluded lifestyle?

With the Ipod becoming the large phenomena that is becoming in the world a big question that could be posed is if Ipods are promoting people to become more secluded in what they do? The Ipod is a personal music player and with its very fast growing popularity begs the question when people are using them as well as to what extent. Many young people use their Ipods on a daily basis be it while walking around the mall or school or whilst in the car. This could point to that they are using their Ipods to shut out the outside world and avoid conversation rather than to enjoy personal music. This does prove what writer Douglas Mann mentioned when he said we live in a society that thrives on isolation.

What would we do without cell phones?

Although i have said that cell phones are problematic in some ways, in other ways the cell phone is also a device with many good features about it.It acts as a means of communication in which we can keep in contact with friends and family.It is very easy to get hold of someone, particularly if it is an emergency, as most of the time every person has a cell phone on them.It keeps us in contact with other people, near of far and allows us to save numbers of many people in our phones without having to write it down on paper, which is very easy to lose.The fact that we are able to capture memories on our phones at any given time is also a big advantage. We do not lose out if we do not have a camera as we can just capture those important moments onto our cell phones.My cell phone for me acts as an alarm clock that wakes me up some mornings and without it i would probably never wake up. It is a way in which in keep in contact with my friends and family.I must admit that if i lost my phone i will feel a little lost without it as it is a way in which i am able to communicate and keep in touch with people around me. The cell phone has a lot of uses and is not just for keeping in contact with other people, which is why it is such a popular device today and why it has become such a huge part of every persons life.

Cell phones problematic?

Although cell phones are a huge craze that everyone has taken to, there are a number of problems that cell phones have.With the New Media, the cell phone has caused there to be a decline in terms of reading books and the interactivity amoung people has decreased a lot. People, particularly the younger generation would rather read and write through text messaging, on the internet on their cell phones,videogaming,e-mailing and surfing the net, rather than reading books and doing research at libraries. cell phones in the New Media also exposes them to the english language because of all the messages and words that are abbreviated, thus effecting the speech of people and their grammar at schools. The literacy in our own native language is effected,as there is a decline in reading as people just do not read anymore. Cell phones change the way in which we live as well as our communication and interaction with other people.People see the cell phone as something that is a part of their lives and not just a tool in media.The fact that people answer their cell phones in meetings and important appointments shows that they allow the cell phone to control their everyday lives. They do not show any respect towards their fellow human beings and shows that the cell phone does come first.The fact that people sit on their phones while sitting with a bunch of friends is very rude and impersonal and implies that the cell phone does come first in their lives. Also the fact that you will see a large amount of students and scholars sitting in their lectures and playing on their phones, rather than paying attention to what the lecturer has to say.The cell phone has become a large distraction to many people and poeple have become a lot more impersonal between one another.People have lost their ability to communicate face to face and find it easier to say things and cancel appointments over the phone rather then saying these face to face.

Mobile Music

Cell phones have a large variety of functions and there are a lot of things that can be done with the cell phone but one of the largest functions is that it has an MP3 player where the user can listen to and download a large amount of music straight to their cell phones.Blue tooth is a device that allows people to share and sent data (music, videos and images etc) to each other for absolutely no cost . One could say that the MP3 player on cell phones is taking away the popularity of Ipods to a certain extent as a lot of music is going straight into peoples phones.It is easier for people to download music off the internet straight from their cell phones and put it onto their computer where they can copy it onto portable disks or back onto their phones.People can just download the music that they want from the internet and then put it straight into their cell phone with very little difficulty and at a much cheaper cost.It is much more cheaper than buying an entire cd and this way one can chose what music they wish to have and what not to have.

This also allows one to save a lot of money as they do not have to spend money on Ipods or on Cds. The music on cell phones is eliminating ipods and the amount of cds that are sold are a lot more less than it used to be.

Mxit

Mxit is a group of chat rooms that are found on the mxit website.MXit is a FREE instant messaging program for cell phones. This means that you can chat to other MXit users on their cell phones anywhere else in the world, for FREE.It enables you to send and receive text messages to and from cell phones with the Internet using GPRS, rather than by using the usual SMS technology. MXit enables you to exchange messages with other users on Mxit or other online chat communities - anywhere, anytime!The worlds younger generation has been named the "thumb tribe" because of the abilities to send smses so quickly.The internet on cell phones has opened up a whole new world for the youngsters of our generation.Cell phones for the older generations are used as a form of security and a means of communicating with people and keeping in contact with people, specifically parents with their children. For children cell phones are a form of freedom and a place where they can get away and escape as it is a world that is beyond parental control.Many people say Mxit is like a shopping mall as it is a place where the children can all meet up and discuss certain things. Mxit also allows them to speak to a lot of people at one given time, and allows them to have different conversations with different people.Mxit has 855 000 users and about 50 to 70 million messages are sent in only one day.MXit is not only available as a means of communication but has many different other ways to express yourself on your mobile phone.You are able to meet new people, play games, customise your phone.This can all be done through Tradepost, a contact that is already on your phone once you have registered on Mxit.

Despite Mxit being a sudden craze ,there are however a number of dangers on Mxit and it may not be very safe to some people, particularly the younger generation.There are a lot of chat rooms particularly flirt chat rooms that are available where it allows us to speak to people with hidden agendas as the identity is not known or could be made up.It could end up that these people with hidden agendas may be stalkers and the children will give out private information about themselves, that could cause a lot of danger in their lives.

Cell phones-New media

The cell phone has gone from being a rare and expensive device to a very popular device among people of all generations and all over the world. The amount of cell phones out number the amount of landlines that people have in their houses today and so do they also out number the amount of personal computers in households.Cellphones also have a large variety of services that may not have been available less than 20 years ago.These services include the internet, mp3 players where you can listen to music from your phone, blue tooth where you can exchange pictures etc from your phone for free, and video recording. Smsing (Short message service) is the main role of the cell phone and it has become a very integral part for a lot of people's every day lives. It is very cheap to send a message, at a cost of 34 cents.The fact that we have a camera on our phones and can take pictures with our cell phones is a huge advantage and many see the cell phone as as a digital device that connects the traditional world. People do not go out and purchase cameras anymore as much as they used to as their phones have these features built in already.

Ipods sentence cd's to death?

Ipods, along with Itunes, have almost revolutionized music and the way we listen to it. Thanks to the Ipod, music has become a lot more personal and independent. The Ipod is basically a personal mp3 player that, with the technology of the newer Nano and Touch models, is not only able to play music but also video. This means that Ipods are a suitable medium for watching music videos, movies and TV series as well as music.

The device works with the program, Itunes, where the owner will synchronize the files on the computer with the files on the device thus decreasing piracy. Itunes is also a huge music database in which, when linked to the internet, the owner can purchase and legally download almost any album to their Ipod. Another revolutionary feature of Itunes is that a person can opt to download one particular song off an album without the hassle of going out and buying the whole cd for just one song. It is because of this that some people have argued that compact discs are now becoming obsolete.

Itunes has brought bands onto an even level of exposure as now people will equal chance to see an album from a well known band as from a underground band in one catalogue, rather than risking lack of availability in cd stores.