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by Kerene Ng
With the advent of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, more people are beginning to spend more time on their phones, often from the moment they wake to before they go to sleep.
Here’s a look at the before and after of smartphones and how that has changed the way we lived.
Friend? Friend.
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Before smartphones and social media, making friends would mean having to actually introduce yourself or be introduced in person. From there, depending on how the conversation goes, you’d become acquaintances before moving on to an actual friendship.
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Now, with social media, we make friends first by adding them on Facebook or following them on Twitter. We might know them through their profile page, and when someone mentions that person in real life, you’ll probably only recognise the person if his or her handle is mentioned.
Want to be friends with that good-looking person but are too shy to ask? Time to put your stalking skills to the test by going through their Instagram. Tell me you haven’t scrolled through weeks of someone’s Instagram, trying as much as you can to stop yourself from accidentally double-tapping a picture that’s 104 weeks old.
Games
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Remember the good ol’ games like Chapteh, Kuti-kuti, Five Stones, Guli, Rubber Band Skipping Rope, Airplane game, Old Maid, Donkey, Monopoly, Game of Life? To play, you’d have to search for the equipment like the ball made of straw, marbles and rubber bands. One thing common about these games is that they require more than one person to play. Some also require you to go outdoors.
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Now, the games are Candy Crush, Farmville, and various other games that are available on the App Store or Google Play. If two or more people are required to play a game, you can get other players online. You can also play practically anywhere – even in the toilet.
Keeping up with the News
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Before smartphones, people read the hard copy of the daily paper. The news that one gets would also be limited to local news and international news that are chosen by the paper — which means you read what the paper tells you to read.
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Now, with your iPhone 6, and the click of an app, you can get the news of not just locally, but also from far-flung lands like Canada. News is shared all over social media and as long as you have an Internet connection, you can read anything and everything you want.
Reading
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In the past, a book existed solely on paper, and when you flip through it, a wisp of musty yet earthly smell might escape.
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As time went by, books went online — from forums, to pdf. files and then to Kindles. The tablet has become rather popular among readers in Singapore, if not the world, where volumes of books can exist in a compact device.
Like newspapers, analogue books are not obsolete, and not completely forsaken. You’d still be able to catch a couple of people reading from the book in the train, but could this sight be slowly disappearing?
Eating
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Remember when eating was just a simple act of transferring the food from bowl to spoon to mouth? When, if it tasted good, all you did was say “mmm” as you try to savour every bit of ingredient.
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Now, taking pictures of the food and adding commentary is the way people give their thumbs up to a dish.
Technology has ushered in a lot of convenience, but there’s still something to be said about the ways of the past.
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