3G - changing social habits

A study commissioned by British 3G cellular provider 3 has come up with interesting ideas involving the use of the new technology, as BBC reports.

3G will change the way people socialize, the study concludes. Because of the way people are able to exchange data such as digital imagery and video, mobile users tend to utilise their handsets to “document their lives,” among a host of other uses that previously were only figments of the imagination.

Increasing use of 3G mobile phones can change the way people communicate and create new social trends and tribes, a behavioural study has suggested.

The study said the combination of still and video cameras on modern phones, and the advent of high speed data transfer, can inspire a generation of users.

The new class of mobile users is now called Generation C, with C standing in for “content.” The wired–and wireless–world is, after all, moving into this era called “Web 2.0,” where content is king and prosumers rule, meaning, we ourselves generate the content we consume. And it’s no longer just the news that matters, but the conversations that go about them are even more important.

But these changes are likely to come full circle when the current generation of phones and mobile technologies (such as GSM) wane in popularity, and get replaced by newer systems. Then, of course, cultural factors may also bar any of these behavioural changes from happening anytime soon, as our present set of mobile users have grown fond of talking and texting and are not likely to switch to videoconferencing that easily.

At any rate, any new technology that gets popular enough is likely to change how people socialize. Take email, for instance, or even the telephone. The world is evolving, and whatever benefits 3G has in store for us is part of all that. Pretty soon I’d expect everyone to be communicating by telepathy!

March 23rd, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Article, 3G at 12:22 pm Comment Now! »
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