Mobile Phone Relationships

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It seems that nowadays everyone is ‘connected’. Through a smart phone you have access to thousands of web pages, thousands of strangers and to thousands of other things you will probably never actually learn how to use. Mobile phones have brought about a drastic change to the communication industry. The modern world has since moved on from the first mobile phone, created in 1973, which many confused to be a building brick, fit to build a house. Through the development of modern technology, long-distance communication has become a matter of seconds and this impacts our relationships. Mobile phones are very useful as they help us in our everyday lives, they help us to keep up-to-date with family and friends that we cannot see and they help us to communicate with one another if there is an emergency. Mobile phones seem to be at the centre of our lives. Some even becoming the centre of a relationship with couples depending on these gadgets to keep connected with their partner 24/7. Is this too far? Granted, not all couples are controlled by the use of mobile phones and their relationships are not based on phone calls and constant texting and hats go off to them for keeping it real. But in our modern age there have been drastic changes in the way relationships work and it seems to make us distant and make words harder to say out loud. Surely this is not how relationships should be? Relationships require physical displays of emotion and this is most certainly impossible through a mobile phone. Conversations become phone calls; arguments become texting and seemingly, that emotional, loving connection is lost. People lose touch of what their real emotions are, feeling like they can fall in love through one of these devices - then surely they have changed how love is formed? Now of course long-distance relationships thrive on communication between couples, but when the

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