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  मोबाईल फोन बनाम कैंसर का खतरा पहले मैगी फिर ब्रैड और अब मोबाईल … हे भगवान किस किस से बचे और कैसे बचे … थोडी देर पहले मणि मेरे लिए ब्रैड पकौडा बना कर लाई क्योकि मुझे बहुत पसंद है …. या था !!! मैने उसे बडा सा लेक्चर दे दिया कि क्या है […]

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An excuse to draw an alligator…who tends to live in a swamp. This one’s having a hard time getting a phone signal. You know how swamps can be.

By Louis René Beres A visibly deep pleasure is embraced by cell phone talkers. For tens of millions of Americans, there is almost nothing that can compare to the ringing ecstasy of a message. It also seems that nothing can bring down a deeper sense of despair than the palpable suffering of cellular silence. Perhaps half of the American adult population is literally addicted to cell phones. For them, a cell, now also offering access to an expanding host of related social networks, offers much more than suitable business contact

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1. “Stomp!”
   You are woke up from the best sleep you’ve had this month by your alarm clock.  You begin to sit up straight and take a long, heart-filled yawn as you prepare to begin what seems like will be the best day ever.  As you wipe the sleep out of your eyes, you rise to your feet and you feel something weird…  Below your right foot are the remains of your mobile phone.
2. “Crunch!”
   That’s the last bag for the trip!  Preparing for your vacation is going pretty smooth as you close the trunk of your vehicle.  You get in the driver seat and fasten your safety belt, and just as you begin to back out of the driveway, you feel a slight bump under your wheel…  Upon getting back out to investigate the situation, you discover your cell phone in more than four pieces.
3. “Strike Three!”
   Your lover is making you angrier and angrier as the conversation goes on.  Whether its the nagging or the screaming, you feel your face turn red, and your blood pressure rises as your heart begins to race.  You don’t want to take it anymore, so you hang up on the person on the other line…  Then without thinking, the next thing you know you’ve become an all-star baseball pitcher and the phone is your baseball crashing against a rather large baseball bat that would be known otherwise as the wall.
4. “Splash”
   Its time for you to face the facts…  You just might be falling in love with your new boyfriend or girlfriend.  You love hearing their voice, and it is the newest highlight of your day just to come home and finally get to talk to him/her.  But this afternoon as the two of you were talking, your stomach rumbles and you have to go to the bathroom to do lose a few pounds or so.  After noticing your leg is going numb, you realize that you have been on the toilet for over twenty minutes!  You suppose its time to get up, and you tell your love “hold on for one second please!” as you rise to wipe yourself and just as you reach for the roll of tissue, your leg tingles and the numbness tickles your feet with the pressure of standing up as your nerves begin to awaken, and splash!  You’ve dropped your phone into the toilet!  Nasty…

Yesterday the Pew Internet in American Life project released a report on wireless Internet use. When I first heard about the report I didn’t think very broadly about what the data might have to say about the impact of access for teens (and for libraries for that matter). But, when I read several news reports that highlighted findings that wireless access, particularly on mobile devices, is serving to lessen the digital divide I started thinking about teens. While not everyone has what some might consider traditional internet access at home - a wired or wireless connection that is used with a laptop or desktop - that doesn’t mean that the Internet isn’t available in the home. People are accessing the Internet with laptops and desktops and they are using game consoles and handheld devices for their access.

If outside of the school teens use handheld devices and gaming consoles to access the Internet, we need to look at how our resources are provided to the age group. We need to make sure to provide access to programs and services in ways that work well for someone using an Internet enabled device. For example:

• It’s clearer now than ever before that we need to provide mobile versions of web pages, catalogs, and databases so that they display successfully on small screens. This is already something that libraries are doing, but perhaps we have to make this a bigger priority. (Mobile versions of library sites include New York Public Library and Skokie Public Library). If our web pages and databases aren’t easily read and scanned on the device someone is using at home, it’s likely that they will just look elsewhere, a place where the information is more easily read via the Internet enabled tool they use.
• We need to embrace the kinds of technologies that teens use via their cell phones, including SMS. This includes text messaging ask a librarian services. On a handheld device this is probably the easiest and quickest way for teens to get answers. Again, if we aren’t providing the answers on these devices in this way perhaps a teen will go somewhere else that is.
• Attention should be paid to developing and promoting applications for devices that support reading, searching, listening, viewing, and so on. Can teens download books, articles, audiobooks and read them on their handheld device or on a screen attached to a gaming console? Can they download a widget or application to their Internet enabled device in order to quickly call up the library catalog, a database, homework help tools, and so on? If this is how teens are accessing the Internet outside of school, shouldn’t these be tools the library provides?
• If teens are using their devices as a main way to connect to the Internet, the school and public library needs to develop opportunities to use these devices in order to learn safe and smart use. Instead of banning mobile devices in schools, teens should have the chance to use them in the school setting for research, collaboration, and content creation. By providing teens that opportunity in the school setting we give them the chance to learn, with adults, how to critically think about their use of the device. Similarly, if public libraries provide programs and services that support and even embrace mobile technologies, librarians have an opportunity to embed within those programs and services discussions with teens of positive use of the technologies.

For a long time librarians and educators have said that teens don’t have Internet access at home, and have suggested that because of that the educational and leisure programs, services, and resources provided by the library should not focus too heavily on using the Internet in order to take part. Can we really continue to say and believe this if teens are accessing the Internet outside of school, just not in traditional ways? While the Pew Internet in American Life research was collected by surveying adults 18 and older, that doesn’t mean that it doesn’t relate to teens 12 to 18. I’d even venture to guess that it might be more true of teenagers.

1. How many friends do you have? If you answered less than 5, you’re a loser.
2. Do you go to gaming/movie conventions?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
3. What sort of parties do you go to?  If you answered gaming, or computer parties, you’re a loser.
4. Do you play World of Warcraft or anything like it?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
5. Do you fish, hunt, or anything else of that sort?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
6. How many people are in your phone’s contact list?  If you answered 10 or less, you’re a loser.
7. What level are you in Call of Duty? If you answered a number, you’re a loser.
8. Have you ever pre-ordered a game?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
9. Are you only friends with people of your gender?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser. 
10. Why did you read this article?  If you answered anything besides you were bored, you’re a loser.

1. How many friends do you have? If you answered less than 5, you’re a loser.
2. Do you go to gaming/movie conventions?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
3. What sort of parties do you go to?  If you answered gaming, or computer parties, you’re a loser.
4. Do you play World of Warcraft or anything like it?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
5. Do you fish, hunt, or anything else of that sort?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
6. How many people are in your phone’s contact list?  If you answered 10 or less, you’re a loser.
7. What level are you in Call of Duty? If you answered a number, you’re a loser.
8. Have you ever pre-ordered a game?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser.
9. Are you only friends with people of your gender?  If you answered yes, you’re a loser. 
10. Why did you read this article?  If you answered anything besides you were bored, you’re a loser.