Here in the west nearly everyone now has a mobile phone. We should all be aware that around half of the worlds population will have never made or received a telephone call.

This really highlights the technological gulf that exists between the developed countries and the developing countries.

But many people think that mobile phones are actually more irritating than they are useful. Have you used a bus or a train lately?

I routinely travel by train to and from London and I’m forced to listen to various telephone conversations that, before the mobile phone revolution, would have never taken place. On my way home on the train from London each evening I’m forced to listen to people calling their partners simply to tell them that they are on the train. And every day I have to listen to the same people making the same pointless calls, just because they can. What did they do before they had a mobile phone?

I’m also forced to listen to teenagers engaged in long drawn out conversations that don’t appear to make any sense. Often, they seem to be discussing their boring, empty lives or scathingly criticizing an alleged friend’s dress sense or discussing boyfriends in unflattering terms. In one recent conversation a young lady loudly shared the details of a recent sexual experience with a detailed account of what took place. Everyone in the carriage was squirming in their seats with embarrassment as she proceeded to describe her experience, blow by blow.

Forcing other people to listen to one side of your telephone conversation is just one aspect of modern mobile phone use that is incredibly annoying. Another is people who use their mobiles to play their music far too loudly without any thought for others who might not like hip hop music.

We all need to remember how lucky we are to even have mobile phones. Owning a mobile phone is not a god given right, it’s a privelige that should not be provided to people who use it to describe their sex lives, loudly.

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