“According to the rumor mill, the iPhone 5 is going to become your portable social network. The phone analyses your habits, tastes, lifestyle, aptitudes, travels and the like and finds people who share the same bandwidth. And then it tells you if a potential friend is in the vicinity. Conversely it allows you to be found and befriended by other iPhone 5 users.”
The above report stated that Apple has create a new type of social network system, competing with Facebook and Twitter, this new system allows you to make new friends near-by or meet someone who you don't really know but may like the same music or drink the same cocktails.
My parent had passed away, but I can assure you they would be very surprised by what an i-phone can do. In an old fortune-telling book of ancient Chinese, (Push-Back-Graphic) written about 2000 yrs ago, stated that in the future, (you know, from 2000 yrs ago's prospective) everyone would hold a 'brick' in their hand, can see each other and talk to each other.
When I was little, always wonder how could this happen?! I personally do not have an i-phone yet, but I will get one when the dual-band i-phone 5 arrives. The main reason for it is the translation app I've dreamed of is available now. That is with this app on an i-phone, I can point my phone to a Spanish menu and it translates to English instantly so I could order in a timely manner. Or I speak to the phone in English and the phone translate what I said in Spanish back to the waiter who is taking my order. How cool is that?! My mom would passed out if she gets to use this feature.
As conservative as I am, it is just wonderful to have all these technologies in our hands but we must draw the line. I personally prefer to meet friends whom I already known or I don't mind to meet friends from another friend, but meeting strangers base on what the phone tells me it's a bit off-the-line.
As convenient as this future phone could be, I wouldn't trade an hour of air time with social networking to an hour of playing with my child in a park, or walking hand-in-hand with my lover on the beach. Somewhere along the line, you have to draw a line.
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