Mobile Fone Fashion (General Comments...)

Member Name: tg64

Product:	General Comments...
Date:	03/04/02 (109 review reads)
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Advantages: New phones boost your image status

Disadvantages: Can cause moral problems

Today we live in an era of peer and social pressures and feel that every thing we buy has to be a recognised brand or the most sophisticated and up to date product. In the case of mobile phones people buy one retailing at £100 for example...6 months later its classed as a "brick" or "fossil" but why? Well the answer is peer pressures many people get worried about what their friends think of them and so sometimes do extreme things to be 'hip' and up to date. Mobile phones are a prime example of this. I bought my Nokia 3310 in January 2001 and I was the most advanced kid in my year at school. Just a year later I was the most out of 'fashion' person in our year, everyone around me had 8210's and 3330's and so I felt I was no longer part of the crowd...
On the otherhand mobile phones are useful and upgrades can be useful too repairs may not come easy for older phones but sources suggest a mobile phone should be upgraded every 2-5 years so why every time a new model is released...
My opinion is to all those worrying about what phone they have is...Forget peers opinions if they have enough force over what you decide they arent really friends but sometimes enemies follow your instincts buy a phone when you really need it and think about other things like college funds and remember the better a phone the higher the chance of it being stolen.

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