subject: Where Mobile Broadband And Your Personal Life Intersect [print this page] We are all well aware of the growing importance of social networking websites. Among them, weve seen the explosion of dating services and profile-based sites that allow us to find people with similar interests- whether they are professional or related to leisure. Theres no way to know if this method of finding and communicating with people throughout our country and the world has diminished our natural ability to socialize with one another. Still, it is certain that the trend has swept across our culture with striking efficiency, rendering us a wireless internet dependant people, constantly connected and constantly seeking the attention of our digital community of friends.
What are the social implications of how mobile broadband has affected our daily habits? For one, it has made us a more sedentary people. Though the benefits of wifi allow us to check e-mail and update our profiles while on the go, the truth of the matter is that we typically find ourselves seated in an office drinking coffee or in a caf munching on a donut while we take part in these activities. The more we find ourselves glued to our smart phones and our computer screens, the more we lose sight of our health and the importance of getting regular exercise in order to stay fit.
Still, without the benefits of mobile wimax and other wireless services, we wouldnt have anything near the social community that weve built for ourselves today. Married couples, intellectuals, and communities of like-minded individuals have found a platform to connect with one another via the great powers of wire free services. This advantage has allowed masses of people to maintain a productive lifestyle, become successful and continue to balance their hectic lives while still allowing them to expand their networks and improve the quality of their social life as well. In some sense, it has reduced the effort and complications involved in actually going out and meeting random people. When you think about it seriously, these random encounters with strangers in a bar or a nightclub bear very little connection to the specificity of on online encounter.
Online encounters for the most part, sustained by mobile broadband or any range of other services, are typically brought about by connections made between people with similar interests. Those people find a means to talk or chat with each other on the internet. The use of smart phones and especially the introduction of new 4G networks has enabled more people to take part in these actions from the comfort of their own home, their daily commute, the office, or wherever they feel at ease. The relationships that are formed are far more formalized than the arbitrary connections that define our parents generation. Time has always been of the essence, but it seems that generations of today are more aware of how to maximize their time spent online to work to the advantage of their social life in ways we could have never imagined just a few short years ago.
