Comportamentos da geração iPod (relativamente aos telemóveis) com influência

OMNIPRESENTE (em tempo e espaço; a qualquer hora e a qualquer momento)«Indeed, the cell phone, rather than the personal computer, is the constant companion for today’s hip and socially networked consumer.Why wait until you get home to log onto the PC to tell your 10 closest friends about your date? Teens use a network-friendly cell phone to relay stories, pictures, and videos instantly. “You can use [the mobile application] in this 2- or 3-minute gap while waiting for a train,” Kakul Srivastava, product manager for photo-sharing site Flickr, told Business Week. “People are out there, living their lives. They are not sitting in front of the computer.”Olga Kharif, “Social Networking Goes Mobile,” Business Week, May 31, 2006. Available at http://www.businessweek.com/print/technology/content/may2006/tc20060530_170086.htm.) (LASICA, 2007: 11)

INTERACTIVIDADE ao máximo «(...) wireless technologies are already affecting how members of the Mobile Generation interact with others—across the hall, down the street, or around the globe—through text, voice, and pictures. On a deeper level, we are beginning to see glimpses of how increased connectivity will affect such basic underpinnings of our social fabric as individuality, privacy, and identity. For example, the combination of location-specific technologies with mobile-commerce records can create a profile of individual actions, behavior, and even thought that exceeds anything previously possible» (LASICA, 2007: 15)

«Companies such as Google, Yahoo!, and Facebook have designs on mobile social networking. “The connectivity of technology has moved mobile,” said moderator Charles M. Firestone, executive director of the Communications and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. That facet of ongoing dialogue can be witnessed not only in texting but in the phenomenon of sharing photos, and now videos, with friends, colleagues, and loved ones.» (Lasica, 2007: 20)