Have Cell Phones Restructured Our Lives?

I think the common answer to that question would be yes, of course it has. Nowadays we are essentially connected on a global scale to everyone. Work and leisure have become blurred, friendships are reduced to illegible text messages, and info is disseminate so quickly through these the devices ( ie. facebook on your cellphone) that it is hard to imagine a world with out them. It's almost as if we are constrained by this technology, no freedom to roam as an individual. But is that the case? Is our sense of reality that much different than before they came on to the market? The cell phone is merely a more advanced replication of a land line phone and before that morse code and so on. People still recieved calls from overseas marketers, their boss or a drunk friend from a pay phone back before there was cell phones. In no way have cell phones reduced our freedom as some may argue, in fact they have given us more, you can't turn off a land line the same way you can turn off your cell phone.

My name is Tyler and I have always had something negative to say about blogs, blogging, and bloggers but now I have been struck down by sweet irony. I am a second year communications student at Capilano U and am looking forward to another productive year here. I was born and raised in Victoria but made the great journey accross the drink to be here today. So lets get started.I've decided to base my blog around the obviously popular hand held gadget known as the cellular phone. I feel that it has become so irrigated into everyday must have life like a wallet or house keys that it is worth exploring its function within society. I assume that almost everyone in this class, college/university (whatever it is), city and probably country either owns a cell phone or at least knows what they are and rely heavily on them. I plan to touch on issues such as ownership and marketing of the device to simple phone etiquette and ever changing styles and functions. This will hopefully allow me to explain the technological phenomenon that started with Zack Morris's shoe box of a phone in the early 90's to today's models offering a plethora of functions such as GPS, interent, and data storage and even the nearly obsolete art of talking to one another with words and possibly emotion...