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1、TEXTAInthecaseofmobilephones,changeiseverything.Recentresearchindicatesthatthemobilephoneischangingnotonlyourculture,butourverybodiesaswell.First.Let’stalkaboutculture.Thedifferencebetweenthemobilephoneanditsparent,thefixed-linephone,yougetwhoeveranswersit.Thishasseveralimpli
2、cations.Themostcommonone,however,andperhapsthethingthathaschangedourcultureforever,isthe“meeting”influence.Peoplenolongerneedtomakefirmplansaboutwhenandwheretomeet.Twentyyearsago,aFridaynightwouldneedtobearrangedinadvance.Youneededenoughtimetoalloweveryonetogetfromtheirplaceo
3、fworktothefirstmeetingplace.Now,however,anightoutcanbearrangedontherun.Itisnolonger“seeyouthereat8”,but“textmearound8andwe’llseewhereweallare”.Textingchangespeopleaswell.Intheirpaper,“insightsintotheSocialandPsychologicalEffectsofSMSTextMessaging”,twoBritishresearchersdisting
4、uishedbetweentwotypesofmobilephoneusers:the“talkers”andthe“texters”-thosewhoprefervoicetotextmessageandthosewhoprefertexttovoice.Theyfoundthatthemobilephone’sindividualityandprivacygavetexterstheabilitytoexpressawholenewouterpersonality.Texterswerelikelytoreportthattheirfamil
5、ywouldbesurprisediftheyweretoreadtheirtexts.Thissuggeststhattextingallowedtexterstopresentaself-imagethatdifferedfromtheonefamiliartothosewhoknewthemwell.Anotherscientistwroteofthechangesthatmobileshavebroughttobodylanguage.Therearetwokindsthatpeopleusewhilespeakingonthephone
6、.Thereisthe“speakeasy”:theheadisheldhigh,inaself-confidentway,chattingaway.Andthereisthe“spacemaker”:thesepeoplefocusonthemselvesandkeepoutotherpeople.Whocanblamethem?Phonemeetingsgetcancelledorreformedandcamera-phonesintrudeonpeople’sprivacy.So,itisunderstandableifyourmobile
7、makesyounervous.Butperhapsyouneedn’tworrysomuch.Afterall,itisgoodtotalk.81whenpeopleplantomeetnowadays,theyA:arrangethemeetingplacebeforehandB.postponefixingtheplacetilllastminuteC:seldomcareaboutwhenandwheretomeetD:stilllovetoworkoutdetailedmeetingplans.82AccordingtothetwoBr
8、itishresearchers,thesocialandpsychologicaleffectaremostlylikelytobes
