It seems that every day, bars are being set higher and higher. The speed limit keeps getting higher, athletes break records, and shopping centers are themed villages a la Disney World. The communication arena is no exception.
The iPhone is the newest, sleekest kid on the communication block. It allows the user to talk, send text messages, listen to music, take videos (and edit them right on the iPhone), play your favorite video games, keep track of your schedule, get directions via a GPS system, and surf the web. And, if that was not enough, it offers a convenient touch screen with which to do all of this. It is also reportedly twice as fast as other application devices (www.apple.com, 2009).
Facebook is a popular social network available on the internet and now it is possible to access Facebook via a cell phone such as an iPhone. Friends of mine recently convinced me to set up a Facebook profile complete with a wall. I was immediately overwhelmed by 30 or 40 “friend” requests. Now, the same friends are trying to convince me to add this to my cell phone.
Where will it all end? There are an estimated 30 million people using Facebook (www.facebook.com, 2009). The number of people over 35 doubled between March 2009 and May 2009 (www.insidefacebook.com). The largest segment of the population using Facebook seems to be the baby boomers (www.insidefacebook.com, 2009). We are sending and gathering information at a speed much faster than we can absorb. It scares me a little to think that all this personal information is floating around in cyberspace or, worse yet, that someone is compiling it for a project yet unknown.
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