Some day, my foreign exchanged friend said she found a funny phenomenon in Hong Kong. she discovered people keep walking fast on the street but also keep their eyes on checking mobiles on the street as well. She saw people would like to do their personal stuff with their mobile on the public, like watching the TV drama on MTR, sharing the location their were reaching on Facebook, taking a selfie causally on the public, and so on. She found that Hong Kong people entirely integrated their cell-phone into their lives. That’s totally different with her home, Italy.
Somehow, I thought her view was definitely true. The improvement of mobile technologies nowadays affects not only our way of communication but also our criteria of personal space.
As convenient as the mobile technologies development these days, we limitlessly communicate with the others through our mobile devices. And, the importance of virtual community keep affecting us.
In the time before the invention of smartphone, people would like to share their lives matter with a virtual identity on the online forum or talk to the others with a faked name or nickname on ICQ. The conception of virtual community was obviously different with reality that people could share without responsibility of their real life identity.
Thank to the appearing of Facebook, a upsurge of social networking platforms boomed to our lives. And, it is different that we have to put our personal information on these platforms. (Someone thought that’s encroaching on his life so he put a fake information to sign up those platforms’s account. Yet, he could not enjoy the fun on those platforms because no one accepting his friend’s request.) Even though we can set the personal information as private, we have input it to the developers.
To a large extent I agree that mobile technologies blur the boundary of private and public space. We are willing to provide our information to the application developers and share our thing to the other in a virtual community. At the same time, we have more chance to communicate with and understand our friends. It is not a definitely answer that whether it is good to us or not.
Dear Hing Lun, There are a couple of issues that you want to address here - blurring of boundaries between public and private spheres, phubbing, the demand of social network and virtual community. This is ambitious. Generally speaking the arguments are fine and supported by case from time to time. What you may want to do is to trim down the content and make the writing more focused. This could also make the essay more coherent.
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