The iPhone 4s has
enhanced my day-to-day life because it improves the communication experience
with iMessage. Having a mother who constantly feels the need to be updated on
your every possible action of the day can be difficult to cope with to some
people; however, after the iphone came into my possession, I have been able to
manage. The once menacing text after text asking if I had eaten lunch or
studied for my poli sci quiz no longer annoy me thanks to the magic of iMessage.
By turning on my read receipts I can basically avoid my mothers texts until I
have the time at the end of my day to sit down and converse. If she asks why I
didn’t respond? Simple! I didn’t see them; thus relieving the tension and
annoyance that would have developed between my mother and I, and allowing for
the easy flow of conversation at the designated (by me) time.
Not to say the
iPhone is only useful to those of us with needy mothers. It is also beneficial
because it allows its users to stay updated on other social communities that
they are members of. Want to know an added bonus? For those of us brave enough
to add our mothers on a social network, such as Facebook, we now have an
additional way of keeping our moms feel included in our lives by the simple
step of updating our status or posting a picture. This involvement in a social
media allows me personally to keep in contact with distant family members, such
as my great grandma in Colorado, and that second cousin I’ve met once at last
years family reunion. It also allows for freedom of expression, because we all
love posting those song lyrics that we feel relate directly to our lives, as if
the song was written about you.
In addition, the
iPhone 4s facilitates in the quality and efficiency of communication. I am able
to send and receive emails, transfer money between my almost nonexistent bank
accounts, text back the GroupMe i’m in with my roommates to tell them to
replace my diet coke they drank, and even check the weather report all on one
small handheld device. When you take into consideration the true definition of
communication it can mean any message you wish to convey. The amount of
information transmitted to me from my apps and vice versa in one day is almost
too immense to believe. However, this colossal flood of nonstop communication
of information can sometimes be distracting.
The iPhone 4s in
all its glory does have its pitfalls. The distraction factor in using such a
piece of machinery is alarmingly clear when I consider the amount of time I spend
on my phone. It is always with me, always charged, and always in use. Does this
mean that I am more tuned in to what’s going on in my phone’s virtual world
than what’s going on in my actual current world of space? Seeing as how I am the kind of person
who texts someone “I see you”
instead of taking first initiative to walk my happy feet over to them to say
hello, I would say so. So one can deduct that the iPhone may possibly de-socialize
society and decrease the quality of face-to-face communication. Yet, we
continue to rave over the iphone and all its advances in technology, perhaps
revealing that we are willing to give up these once prized aspects of
communication for a shiny new toy?
