How has my mobile phone changed my behavior

How has my mobile phone changed my behavior??:

How has my mobile phone changed my behavior?? Devdatta Bhattacharyya (PGP111103) NTADBM (June 2012) IIM Ahmedabad

my mobile is…:

m y mobile is… 1st generation touch screen phone with 1 st generation “form” of apps but with very good Java support (which means many new apps run on it) and also has a very good upgradable browser (with support for HTML5) SAMSUNG CORBY

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but when I think about how it has “changed” my behavior, the stuff that comes to my mind first are all the instances where I use it during a normal 24 hrs day…

…first thing it helps me do is…:

…first thing it helps me do is… …and with its incessantly increasing vibration I sometimes feel like throwing it away but it is because of this feature only that I am assured I would not be missing classes…

…speaking of classes…:

…speaking of classes… …my mobile phone helps me in concentrating during the class…

for example in Pricing class…:

f or example in Pricing class…

…in Market Research lectures…:

…in Market Research lectures…

…and it also…:

…and it also… …sometimes helps me get class participation points by saying something relevant to the discussion which I actually just Googled on my phone…

I also order pizza everyday on my phone using a simple app that I downloaded long ago…:

I also order pizza everyday on my phone using a simple app that I downloaded long ago…

Apart from this…other “usual” stuff like…:

Apart from this…other “usual” stuff like… Checking my Facebook notifications every 15 minutes… Updating Twitter… Messing up Wikipedia entries… Texting, forwarding etc… Listening to music, radio (for ex: right now, while doing this assignment)… …and such

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…all these “conveniences” DIRECTLY modify my behavior in various contexts and situations as shown just now, THAN how I would have behaved IF the phone was not there…

…however there are some INDIRECT behavior modifications also which I would like to attribute to my phone:

…however there are some INDIRECT behavior modifications also which I would like to attribute to my phone

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Getting used to multi-tasking on my phone has caused… I find it hard to concentrate on one specific actionable for a very long time. Even during exams I find myself switching topics and concurrently advancing on 3 or 4 topics than studying one finishing it and then moving onto the other. There has been a lot of research into this and its now suggested that we are actually “evolving” as a species towards members with lesser attention spans. SHORT ATTENTION SPAN THUMB PAIN Sometimes I find myself loathing the idea of a written exam simply because of the fact that my thumbs are already in a painful state even when the exam has only started. This I have found is directly attributable to my late night texting habits. MILD MIGRAINES I also get mild migraines when I use my mobile late into the night. This hampers any work for which I need to use another screen like a laptop or a tablet. These are mostly like harmless hangovers.

But yeah…I just love my phone :

But yeah…I just love my phone  Stock Images Credit: Google Image Search Attention Span Research: http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-Turn-Their-Attention/63746 /