"An electronically transmitted voice is not a real voice" I said. "We've all grown used to these simulacra of ourselves, but when you stop and think about it, the telephone is an instrument of distortion and fantasy. It's communication between ghosts, the verbal secretions of minds without bodies. I want to be able to see the person I'm talking to. If I can't, I'd rather not talk at all".




Admittedly being stranded on a train for the best part of two hours makes having a mobile phone incredibly useful, however at times I find the use and need for one burdensome; having to report and maintain communication with people when they're not in your presence, solely to fulfill the needs of a socially constructed action. 
'Iya. Wuup2? Tb.xx'... 'Got such a nastee hangover. Gud nyt tho. Wen r u uploading the photos online?xoxo'. 
Now more than ever the original invention and introduction of technology is being abused to create and sustain the extension of a person's identity, an identity which is fraudulent and insincere, not to mention misleading. Admittedly I have veered more to the debate of facebook/myspace/bebo/twitter, however all can be coined together to see how it is terrifyingly disturbing if you are to consider the effects this is having on the basic levels of communication on a wider social plane. Rather not talk at all?