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No consumer product in history has caught on as quickly as the mobile phone, global sales of which have risen from six million in 1991 to more that 400 million a year now.The arrivel of the mobile phone has transformed our lifestyles so much that men now spend more time on the phone than women, according to the results of our special opinion poll.
Mobile phones are no longer just the domain of the teenager and, in fact, just as many 40- and 50-somethings now own a mobile phoneas the 15 to 20 age group (slightly below 70%). Even among the over 65s more than 40 % now have mobile.

The survey found that men with mobile phones (72% of all men) spend more than an hour a day making calls on an average weekday. The average man spends sixty-six minutes on his landline or his mobile, compared with fifty-three minutes before the mobile phone revolution. But the poll reveals that, while men are using their phones a lot more, women are actually spending less time on the phone. Slightly fewer women (67%) have mobile phone, and the survey shows that the average amount of time they spend on the phone on a weekday has gone down from sixty-three minutes before they got a mobile to fifty-five minutes now. The explanation might lie in the fact that men love to play with techno toys while women may be more conscious of the bills they are running up.

Innovation in mobile phones has been happening so fast that it's difficult for consumers to change their behaviour. Phones are constantly swallowing up their products like cameras, calculators, clocks, radios, and digital music players . There are twenty different products that previously might have been bought separately that can now be part of mobile phone. Mobiles have changed the way people talk to one another , they have generated a new type of language , they have saved lives and become style icons.

Obviously, the rich have been buying phones faster that the poor. But this happens with every onnovation. Mobile phone take up amoung the poor has actually been far quicker than it was in the case of previous products, such as colour television, computers and Internet access. Indeed, as mobile phones continue to become cheaper and more powerful, they might prove to be more successful in bridging the gap between the rich and the poor than expensive computers.

There are obviously drawbacks to mobiles as well : mobile users are two and half times more likely to develop cancer in areas of the brain adjacent to their phone ear, although researchers are unable to prove whether thishas anything to do with the phone ; mobile thefts now account for a third of all the accidents waiting to happen as people drive with a mobile in one hand. But, overall, mobile phones have proved to be a big benefit for people.

So what makes us like an acquaintance? What makes us like someone so much that he or she becomes a friend? In English, we talk about “making friends”. This suggests that you have to do something positive. It is not always enough just to be yourself. You sometimes have to make yourself more likeable. It is possible to change your behaviour or your attitude, to become more likeable. But what should you change? Ask yourself these questions. What do you like about other people, what do you dislike? To become likeable, you need to be independent, positive, honest, reliable and considerate this means that you consider other people. You have also to be available. This means that you are always ready to help when a friend needs you. Finally, you need to be supportive. Of course, this comes from the verb support. Meaning that you help people rather than criticize them.

How do we make friends? Some people seem to find it easy. They have lots of friends. Other people seem to find it difficult. Why? What is the secret of making friends? First, we must understand the difference between friends and acquaintances. Acquaintances are people we know. We know them from the clubs we go to, from the places where we work or from our local neighbourhood. We meet them around in the high school playground and we say’ hello, how are you?’However, friends are people we like a lot. Perhaps we don’t like everything about them, but we feel positive about most of their characteristics.

How do we make friends? Some people seem to find it easy. They have lots of friends. Other people seem to find it difficult. Why? What is the secret of making friends? First, we must understand the difference between friends and acquaintances. Acquaintances are people we know. We know them from the clubs we go to, from the places where we work or from our local neighbourhood. We meet them around in the high school playground and we say’ hello, how are you?’However, friends are people we like a lot. Perhaps we don’t like everything about them, but we feel positive about most of their characteristics.

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