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In those early years of working in the 90s, there were only pagers. Beep Beep! and I will have to look for a payphone to call back the idiot who paged. But the good thing was, it was seldom abused. Life's pretty peaceful as typewriters and fascimile machines dominate while word processing software and internet were still in infancy stage.
Then came Call Zone phone where the telco gave you a handset, but you needed to go to a Call Zone location in order to make a call. Wow, then, it was stylo milo.
Eventually, the big brick Mobile Phone arrived. It was bulky. But carrying it was "cool" because of the envy eyes staring at you. However, the Ah Beng's Big Brother Big didn't last long, as mobile phones got smaller and smaller, buttons also disappeared for touch screen keyboard.
By then, typewriters had died, same with the facsimile machine and post office. Email, SMS grew. Fast forward a little, SMS also met it's fate. Moblile data messaging on mobile phones like WhatsApp, Line, Messenger, WeChat, Telegram killed SMS. It transformed our ways of communication.
With mobile data messaging, we "smile" idiotic-ly into our mobiles, transact orders to colleagues and subordinates, flirt with the opposite gender, spouse and lovers, induce instant jealousy in recipients by sending them holiday photos, send reminders to our children. We plot office politics, bitch about those we hate, send happy birthday greetings, share social media information and stories etc.
A whole multitude of communication objectives are achieved without having to open our mouth and talk! Further, screenshot ability means conversations are literally reduced to writing and archived for further use or misuse.
What's next after data messaging? I wonder.
Any idea?
Then came Call Zone phone where the telco gave you a handset, but you needed to go to a Call Zone location in order to make a call. Wow, then, it was stylo milo.
Eventually, the big brick Mobile Phone arrived. It was bulky. But carrying it was "cool" because of the envy eyes staring at you. However, the Ah Beng's Big Brother Big didn't last long, as mobile phones got smaller and smaller, buttons also disappeared for touch screen keyboard.
By then, typewriters had died, same with the facsimile machine and post office. Email, SMS grew. Fast forward a little, SMS also met it's fate. Moblile data messaging on mobile phones like WhatsApp, Line, Messenger, WeChat, Telegram killed SMS. It transformed our ways of communication.
With mobile data messaging, we "smile" idiotic-ly into our mobiles, transact orders to colleagues and subordinates, flirt with the opposite gender, spouse and lovers, induce instant jealousy in recipients by sending them holiday photos, send reminders to our children. We plot office politics, bitch about those we hate, send happy birthday greetings, share social media information and stories etc.
A whole multitude of communication objectives are achieved without having to open our mouth and talk! Further, screenshot ability means conversations are literally reduced to writing and archived for further use or misuse.
What's next after data messaging? I wonder.
Any idea?
