The Dangers of Mobile Phones

As many of you know I'm not a big fan of mobile phones. I can't really see the point of them. They're incredibly annoying and they're dangerous.

When I was young there weren't any mobile phones and not many ordinary phones. They were a luxury and we tended to ignore them. If you wanted to talk or see your friends you went round to their house, and when you were far away you could write a letter. Letters were great. Who ever gets a letter now? If you didn't see your friends for a while you had all the more to talk about. You saved it up. And what do people use mobile phones for? "Hi. What are you doing?" "I'm answering this phone. What are you doing?"

The other thing I can't stand are the stupid ring tones. Who gives you the right to pollute the environment with this awful noise? Do you never think other people have to listen to this? And the most annoying thing of all: when you're deep in conversation with some one and their phone starts ringing, what do they do? They answer the mobile phone!!! And then they turn their back on you and start whispering to someone else. How rude can you be? Now, the mobile phone is more important than the person standing in front of you, or the people you're in company with. So many times I've sat in restaurants watching people at a table not talking to each other, but taking it in turn to talk on their mobile phones. Why did you go out to eat together? Do you not like the people you're with? Why don't you just go home?

Of course, mobile phones, apart from being stupid and annoying, are also proving, like cigarettes and alchohol, not only to be addictive, but dangerous as well. One danger is that they basically send microwaves through the air, so that when you hold one to your ear for long enough, you're cooking your brain. I once sat on a bus from Lamphun to Chiang Mai for over an hour, while the girl sitting next to me chatted nonsense on her mobile phone. She came on to the bus with it glued to her ear and left with it in the same position. She probably complains of headaches and not sleeping at night. I wonder why. The second danger caused by mobile phones is using them while driving. You see this every day in Chiang Mai. People driving one handed, dialling numbers and texting, weaving all over the road. Motorcycle riders are the most obvious idiots, but if you're sitting at the traffic lights you can see an awful lot of car drivers doing the same thing. And of course they're in the right. They're doing nothing wrong. They can do whatever they want. They don't care about you and me.

Watch the video below made by the Welsh police and never use your mobile phone while driving again. Be warned. It contains some shocking scenes. It's time to wake up to this mobile phone stupidity.