Social and ethical problems by using mobile phone - a special study on karaitivu divisional secretariat area

Abstract

Mobile Communication has been readily available for several years, and is the major business today not only in Sri Lanka but also all over the world. It provides a valuable service to its users who are willing to pay a considerable premium over a fixed line phone, to be able to walk and talk freely because of its usefulness and the money involved in the business. There are many definitions for communication. Mobile phone cloning is the process of transmission of personal identifiable information from one cellular device to another device. Cloning is completely successful with CDMA mobile telephone services. But it’s not so successful with GSM networks. This technique is banned in some countries. There are various companies involving to product mobile phone. At the same time, hand phone users are increasing day to day than fixed land-phone users. The objective of this research is to explore how far the mobile phone usage by adults leads to immoral activity. It has severely affected the adult’s communications. It causes dangerous situations for their proposing solutions to resolve their ethical issues by using mobile phone. Most of them in the Divisional Secretariat consider using mobile phone as social status. Methodology of this research is analytical, explanation, and descriptive. Data for the research was collected from primary data and as well as secondary data. Interviews, Questionnaires are the primary data, books, magazine, documentations, essays and news paper articles are secondary data. Accordingly tandem information was gathered from the families living in this area, officials of the village and, samurdhi development officers. Further information was also gathered from organization and societies from these villages. The finding of the study reveals most of the adults are addicted for mobile phone culture and it has affected their education. Usage of the phone is creating many problems in the research area. Further it causes lack of sleeping, worries and phobia. The potential impact of the kind of electromagnetic fields generated by cellular phones on the human brain has received little attention until relatively recently.