The first handheld cellular telephone call was made in Manhattan in April 1983, within 35 years, about 2.8 billion people worldwide have become mobile phone subscribers. No technology has ever experienced such a rapid adaption rate as has the mobile phone (Castells, Qiu, & Fernandez-Ardevol, 2006).
Our's truly, Yi-fan Chen and fellow researcher K.M. Lever study of "tele-density" supports further confirmation that there is widespread and heavy useage of these technologies.
Preliminary research though on within- and across media networks suggests that mobile phones tend to be used to reinforce strong social ties, while computer-mediated text-based media tend to be used in explanding relationships with weak ties (Kim, Kim, Park, & Rice, 2007).
In all mobile devices and mobile trends of communication have contributed to many pros and cons of day to day situations people around the worl encounter.
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