Usefulness of Mobile in Teenagers!
“Mom will you get me a mobile phone for my birthday this time?” Asked Nishi. “But you are still a teenager, honey?” was her mother’s reply. “So what? All my friends have it, mom. I want it too.” pleaded Nishi. “Ok, you can have it but only if you convince me about the usefulness of a mobile phone for you as a teenager”. Smart mother. Nishi thought for some time and then decided that she wasn’t going to miss this golden opportunity. She decided to give it a try to convince her mother of the usefulness of mobile phone for her.
A mobile phone is a perfect tool to master modernity. It is simultaneously a way to master digital technology. A teenager can create his identity by means of factors such as language, clothes and symbols. It is popularly used as a personal style concept e.g. a special color, design and brand maybe chosen to personify the phone, as well as a special logo or the ringing tone. With a phone handy, a teenager can position himself to a number of time-typical trends: being easily accessible, flexible, communicative, informed and up to date. He can have simultaneous information about the different arenas of his life: school, home, leisure time etc. Along with the teenager, even the parents can keep track of where their child is easily.
Nishi thought she would finally get the phone she wanted. Her mother seemed impressed by her arguments. But the happiness was short lived. Now her mother came up with counter argument.
According to a recent survey, many teenagers are found abusing their mobile phone privileges. More than one-third (38 percent) of teens surveyed use their mobile phones to text-message their friends during school, 30 percent play video games on their phones while in school, and more than one-quarter (26 percent) use their phones to talk to people their parents would not approve of. The survey also revealed that on average, teens spend almost as much time on their mobile phones as they spend doing physical activity.
Now Nishi was in a fix. She wants the phone but doesn’t have a reply to her mother’s concerns. Can you help her? Do you think a teenager is justified in asking for a mobile phone?
In my opinion, a teenager can be given the mobile phone privileges (as it is necessary for emergency and security purposes sometimes) but with a strict parent patrol. Parent Patrol enables parents to monitor and set limits on their child’s phone use by setting boundaries on numbers called, time of day, number of minutes used, and services accessed (for example, text messaging). These restrictions can be applied once or dynamically changed. Always-allow and never-allow features enable exceptions, such as permitting calls to and from parents at all times, or barring unwanted callers. This manageability greatly limits the abuse of mobile phone privileges by the teenagers and at the same time lets the children enjoy the benefits of modernity and technology.
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