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Ever heard of mobophobia? I only heard it last night in a news feature on TV. Did self check and concluded I might be mobophobic. Sometimes. Haha.
What is mobophobia?
Definition: v. To feel stressed and anxious and when your mobile phone runs out of battery power, drops its network connection, or in the worst case, gets misplaced and lost. n. A panic attack caused by an interruption in your mobile phone service. (www.verbotomy.com)
The Philippines rank 14th among the top mobile phone users in the world (last updated in October 2011) with 86,000,000 number of mobile phones and a population of 94,013,200. Meaning, 91.5% of the country’s population are mobile phone users. With our country, having tagged once as the texting capital of the world, it won’t be surprising if there are a lot of mobophobic Filipinos out there.
According to Global Mobile Statistics as of February 2012 as published in mobithinking.com — “There are 5.9 billion mobile subscribers (that’s 87 percent of the world population). Growth is led by China and India, which now account for over 30 percent of world subs.”
With these digits, how many do you think have mobophobia?
Do you know some friends who can’t survive an hour or a minute without holding or checking on their phone? Do you know anyone who’s mood drastically shifts from good to bad when his mobile phone fails to connect to a wireless connection?
Who wouldn’t get stressed if your mobile phone gets misplaced? Malay mo nanakaw na pala hindi mo pa alam. Nakakaloka naman yun.
We’d like to ask business people and teens who are so glued to their mobile devices like their whole life depends on their cellphones or smartphones.
What if you get stuck in an island for days where there’s no network connection? Or it just died its natural death because it has been ages since you bought it and it just gave up on you? Matataranta ka kaya ng sobra o matitiis mong wala ang super love mong cellphone?
So, are you mobophobic?
