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FAKULTI PENDIDIKAN DAN BAHASA

SEMESTER MAY 2013/SMP ambilan MAC 2011
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ENGLISH FOR WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION

NAMA

: AZIZAH BINTI ABD. AZIZ

NO. MATRIK

: 780612086256001

NO. KAD PENGENALAN

: 780612086256

E-MAIL

: nasuhaunirfan@oum.edu.my

PUSAT PEMBELAJARAN

: OUM SHAH ALAM

CONTENT
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INTRODUCTION
REPORT
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES

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1.0

INTRODUCTION

Mobile phones, by definition means a device or a tool that is used to communicate using a radio link
while moving around a wide geographic area (Wikipedia,n.a). Mobile phone is a good technology
which is not lacking from our lives. New technology has changed our way of life more than ever.
Since the industrial revolution in the 18th to 19th century, many new inventions have been produced

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to facilitate our living. One of them was the mobile phone. When the first one was launched in 1973
by a company called Motorola, a new lifestyle with many new attributes has been established. What
are the benefits that it has brought to us? This report will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
using mobile phones.
2.0 REPORT
In my opinion, there are three advantages using the mobile phone such as :

Communication

Today, mobile phone has become popular to everybody since it is very convenient. The most
advantage of having a mobile phone is you can communicate to your family and your friends no
matter what where you are. For instance, you can contact easily to your friends by calling or sending
messages everywhere without electricity. It is maybe the main reason why almost all people today
choose to own a mobile phone. From my point of view, it is obvious that mobile phones assist you in
business a lot, such as, make schedule of working, surf the internet, and keep in touch with their
companies.

Entertainment

Mobile phone is also an entertainer. Obviously, we use phone to contact each other, but in recent year
mobile phone has become more than just a communicating device. It has become an entertainer by
having many features like playing music and video, surfing the web, and playing games. Moreover,
the mobile phone is usually so small that you can take it anywhere with you. So whenever you feel
bored when you wait for someone, cell phone is great friend be with. Moreover, you can relax with
mobile phones applications, for example, play games, listen to music, or chat with your friends.

Application

Now days, there are millions of different applications are available for our mobile phones. Some of
them can be quite useful. For example, assistive technology which is basically the technology for
disables. In it, that have mentioned about the various applications for autistic kids which run
of mobile phones and it works wonderfully with them. Mobile applications are very useful when it

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comes to our daily needs. With the help of our very own smart phone, we can easily obtain
information and access a lot of interesting facts or things with a few press of the screen. Even in the
business world, developers are entering in the world of Mobile Application Development not only to
help people but also to share their products and services to a wider audience. There are incredible
advantages with mobile phone applications. Mobile application is effective modes of marketing and
introducing the product to a wider audience. In addition, it is proven way of boosting the sales
performance of product. There will be no longer advertising through newspaper or other forms of
advertisement but with the help of the mobility phones, it will be success.
Disadvantages using the mobile phones

In the places where we sopposed to have the silent, mobile have been the disturbing elements.

Places likes hospitals, libraries, movie, theaters and even formal meetings cannot be compleed these
days without the interruption of someones ringing mobile phone.

However the greatest disadvantage of these applications is that people waste a lot of time

using them. If there are 100 applications that are helpful and worthy, then there are a million
applications that are nothing but a waste of time. Another disadvantage would be the money people
spend on these worthless applications. I know many of them are available for free but there are pretty
good number of applications that are not.

The reason behind many road accidents is that the person who was driving the vehicle was

also on phone that time. This doesnt mean a person busy on a phone will be only dangerous when he
or she is driving. It is seen in many cases a person walking around while talk on the phone is a danger
not only for himself but for other people to.

People use Bluetooth and the camera in bad ways.

Sometimes the reception is poor in some areas, limiting your connectivity.

Mobile phones also lead to an increased stress level. People often get call from their bosses to

odd times to get their official work done.

DANGEROUS EFFECTS ON MOBILE PHONES IN TERMS OF HEALTH
Mobile phones communicate with base stations using radiofrequency (RF) radiation. If RF radiation
is high enough, it has a thermal effect, which means it raises body temperature. There are concerns
that the low levels of RF radiation emitted by mobile phones couid cause health problems such as

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headaches or brain tumours. As quoted by Murrow (2010), long-term cell phone usage has been
studied as a potential cause of brain tumors, ear cancer, headaches and sleep disorders. The use of
mobile phones has reached the extent where people could not put it aside even for a while, thus they
bring it to the bedroom during bedtime and still fiddling with their phones. Mobile phones have
replaced so many traditional devices such as an alarm clock, a calendar, a flashlight and others, then
keeping it away from people is almost impossible. A study shows that mobile phones pump out
electromagnetic radiation which delays and disrupts sleeps. This radiation will interfere the body
system and disturb the process of regaining energy and reparation throughout the night. This study
proves that sleeping with mobile phones is a bad and dangerous habit especially for teenagers and
kids who generally need more sleeping hours compared to adults.
Mobile phones make our lives easier but at the same time they cause some important
problems in our health.

For example, mobile phones spread electromagnetic waves. These

electromagnetic waves cause important health problems like cancer. Using a lot mobile phone can
harm your brain, particularly teenager and children who are under 16 years old. If you use mobile
phones too much, you will get bad effects like dizzy, blood brain barrier or ears problem. The
continuous exposure of signal to and from our mobile phone can be a cancer concern, although to a
meager amount research is still going on. However, the mobile phone industry has long resisted any
suggestion of a link to cancer, though it accepts that mobile phone radiation does affect the electrical
activity in the brain.
There are many people all around the world who never leave their mobile phones alone. It is
consider very harmful for ones health. When you talk on phone for hours it can affect your hearing
and the danger of brain tumor caused by mobile phones radiation is known to everyone. Radiations
emitted from the phone are dead harmful for the eardrum has proved by many scientists. Another
thing, seen that many people listening to music on their mobile phones all the time. This is also has
effects on your hearing and your concentration power. The battery parts and other electronic parts of
a mobile phone can be environmental hazard if not disposed of properly through approved means.
Health of those living in the vicinity of mobile phone towers is becoming a growing concern. Towers
result into an area with concrete development along with destruction of natural features around the
place. The towers also emit strong electromagnetic signals, which can be health hazard for those
living nearby and who are getting exposed to strong radiations continuously during a good span of
their lives. Uses of hands-free such as wired or blue-tooth can at times pass on loud sounds to our

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ears which can result in weakening of ear-drums. Nowadays, one can download lots of songs, so
keeping the hands-free glued inside your ears for long hours can really affect the sensitivity of ears in
the long run of life.
There have been cases of mobile phone blasts, due to the excessive heating up of its battery.
This can be a fatal issue although rare. Other than that, the surface of a mobile phone has millions of
bacteria and virus on it and that can be a strong reason of immediate skin problem on face or can
result into other internal infections wherein the microbes creep inside the body through mouth or
other openings. Some use the keypad excessively due to size restrictions the buttons and keypad of
the mobile phone are not natural for human hands. So excessive and prolonged typing can be an issue
for fingers and finger joints.
THE EFFECTS OF MOBILE PHONES IN SOCIALLY
Besides giving a huge impact on health, mobile phone also affects peoples life, socially.
According to a study by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, people who use mobile phones are
more likely to allow work to spill over into family life (Arthur 2010). Working men or women are
very attached to their mobile phones for business purposes. In some cases, they might bring the work
into their homes and eventually the chances of them spending quality time with the family members
will be smaller.
In addition, it is also stated in Nurullahs article (2009), that mobile phone has transformed daily life
of individuals to such an extent that it can be thought of as an agent of social change. Conversely, it
has blurred the boundary between personal and public life. Many people do not realize that mobile
phone contributes a lot of problems in social context. The wide use of mobile phones has a great
impact on quality of leisure spent by a family or community. People nowadays are too absorbed in
the advance of technology that every mobile phone has to offer, that they forget about contributing
something beneficial to the society, including teenagers and children. With various types of games
and applications installed in it, children seem to be very addictive. Nowadays, it is a normal scenario
when a group of friends or family sitting together at the dining table in a restaurant and playing with
their own mobile phones instead of talking to each other. Teenagers rather sit on the bench at the
park, fiddling with their phones than socializing with their friends. This is very unnatural since it

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turns people to be very active virtually and become very passive in real life. No more social
interactions between people and this is certainly an unhealthy scenario.
With regards to the point mentioned above, it is believed that constant reliance on mobile phones
actually gives negative impacts on peoples interpersonal skill (South Source, 2013). Young people
such as teenagers and kids will not have a chance to develop and improve their interpersonal and
communication skill due to the least oral interaction in their daily lives. This will not be helpful for
them in future especially when they are going for job or college interviews, where this interpersonal
skill and leadership are very much needed. If this problem is left unattended for years, the future
generation will face the consequences. They will become very submissive and potentially unaware of
what is happening around them. If that happens, it will be a big loss to our nation.
3.0 CONCLUSION
Mobile phones are really very important in our lives that we cannot think our life without them. It is a
long-range, portable electronic device used for mobile communication. Mobile phones are affordable,
easy to use and comfortable. They manage our every task in office or in our home. They are not just
the communication medium but also the computation medium. They are equipped with the high-end
features and specifications that it really makes us feel great in having them them in our hands.
The mobile phones have become crucial part of our life.there are facts which prove this. They have
replaced the wrist watches or our alarm clocks at home as we can see time in them wherever we are
and can even know the time of other countries and set according to it. We can also set the alarms in
them. They have become a kind of portable electronic diaries for us. In them we can easily write daily
schedules, contacts of friends or clients, appointments, notes and they even remind us of the
important events or meetings. Thus the mobile phones are useful in offices mostly.
When you are stressed you can listen to the music from in-built music player. You can entertain
yourself while you are on the move as they help in reducing stress levels and frustration. The music
player are simple as well as sophisticated because in the latest splendid mobile phones the music
players can support audio of different formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA etc. and now you do not
have to search for the different players. You can get everything in one mobile handset can also listen
to the radio with the perfect sound quality. Various mobile phones are coming with the high

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resolution megapixel cameras ranging from 1.3 to 8 megapixels. They are real mobiles phones have
intruded in our lives and have made their own unique stand. Once considered as a luxury is now the
thing closest to our hearts.
Mobiles have even replaced the wristwatches people now find it easier to see the time in their mobile
phones. Mobiles phones have become the personal dairies for many. A mobile phone acts like your
mother and wakes you up in the morning; it is your reminder that keeps you updated of all your
meetings and important events. Calculator and notes section has made the mobile phone your
personal assistant. Mobile phones because of their varied multi-function capabilities have replaced
many other devices. When you are stressed and need some music to soothe your soul then just turning
on your music player on your mobile will work for you. Now a days most mobile phones have a
music player or an FM receiver. This will ensure that you wont get bored at any point of time.
Phones have also popularized the camera feature. Now point-and-shoot imaging has been
rediscovered with the mobile phone camera. However Studies have shown mobile phone radiation
does produce biological changes in humans such as changes in brain temperature and activity as well
as blood pressure changes. Others accumulating evidence indicate that microwave radiation from
mobile phones may cause serious diseases and disturbances in the physiology. This includes an
increased cancer risk and genetic damage, disturbed brain function and other effects. Moreover
mobile phone while driving is a distraction that brings risk of road traffic accidents. In conclusion, i
believe although there are disadvantages of using mobile phones the advantages are more.They have
completely intruded in our lives and have made their own uniqe stand.Once it is concidered as luxury
is now the thing closest to our hearts.

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