With over 1.1 Billion people, in India it is survival of the fittest. And to survive, you need a mobile. Especially, the rural parts of India.
While I am Indian, I definitely am an American when I travel to India. I can tell you first hand that mobile phones are very much in the rural parts...they are everywhere. The rural parts of India are still very backwards relative to its big cities.
Donkeys are pulling wooden carts of crop. Water is collected at a community well. The power goes out at various times to conserve the limited energy. Roads are still mud and rock. India's rural community lives in antiquated times so when you see everyone with cells phones...you can't help but chuckle.
It's like they decided they couldn't embrace all technology so they would embrace the one that could help them make the most money. The first time I heard the term SMS (short message service) was in India. I couldn't believe how they much they had adopted mobile technology.
Even though parts of India are ass backwards, its refreshing to see technology being adopted this way in this country.
In contrast, the US is getting excited about such a technology that pinpoints your friend's exact location. While I get excited that I can find the closest CVS in walking distance to me, it makes me nervous to think that you can "cyberstalk" your friends.
I can just picture it now...wife checking where politician husband really is or ex-boyfriend sees that that you are at the local starbucks and walks in on you having an interview.
This is bad news. Social Media does bring out the stalker tendencies in all of us. Having the ability to actually stalk with the help of the Helio and of mobile social networking...um scary...the potential for damage is very scary.
Hope everyone has recovered from the cabin fever...
I like the idea of friend locators but I am also very worried about how far it will go.. Because I too have cyberstalking tendencies... Makes me wonder if this "MoSoSo" technology was made by a woman to use on her husband...#iamjustsayin...
ReplyDeleteHahaha..loved that u referenced India...and yes, social media can bring out the "stalker" in people, but how long are u really "stalking" an ex boyfriend?? just long enough until a new interest comes along right??? Its benefits still outweigh the "apphrensivness" that cell phones and social media has caused. I don't know what I would do without my urbanspoon app...especially living in dc :-)
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