DATA; THE NEW OXYGEN.

I sat in one business lecture and the speaker inquired, "imagine how much money you will have if the money used for mobile data was kept in a savings account?" Frankly speaking that got me thinking.

But hey, we are in a global village and the world practically lives on the internet so how can you afford to be left out😱?

 Smart phones came with a new flex and we were all eager to have one due to the milk and honey benefits promised but as usual but our legs never reached Canaan. Today my beef is not so much on the problems associated with smart phones it rather has to do with telecoms and mobile data bundle.

Day in day out the telecoms come out with fanciful adverts on affordable data bundles but let me ask; are they really easy on the pocket? Sometimes I wonder if it is the telecoms that are cheating us or it is our addictive nature to social media that is draining us. What is even more annoying are instances where you bundle data and limited duration to expire yet your connection is on edge 80% of the time. Really? Someone once said that a smartphone with no internet connection is as unhelpful as a dam with no water and to some extent I have come to agree with that statement. Currently traditional media have online versions thus as audience we are entrapped to keep buying to watch our favorite shows at all times of the day even when we don’t want to and even worse become overly infatuated with free WiFi😤😔.

 The story gets as bad as some people not keeping money in their mobile money account because they will be tempted to use all for data bundles. (The trick is that the telecoms promise 100% bonus when we buy with mobile money so you see, we are deceived to buy more). Personally I have gotten to points where I now buy airtime as birthday gifts because they seem more valuable and a pressing need than a sophisticated gift.

Our reliance on social media for both formal and informal activities increase our dependence on internet connection as often as we can. But with the way it drains on smartphones IS Data NOT BECOMING The New Oxygen?

Just thinking aloud!