Cellphones Become Our Comfort Objects During Disaster

Two days after a 8.8 magnitude earthquake move them from their dwelling and separated them from dear ones , people gather at a attack - place in Concepcion , Chile to charge their cellphones — their comfort object during this disaster .

Chile was becoming a sheer topic on Twitter before even the fastest newscasters got a chance to speak about Saturday ’s quake , thanks to many hastily posted Tweets — most of which probably came from mobile devices . Tweets , text messages , email , calls , voicemails — everything flew across the networks , draining telephone and allot citizenry some comfort and peace . Just listen a conversant voice or read words of sureness — know that your mobile gadget links you to the human race , to crime syndicate , and to much needed aid — makes one heck of a difference .

We ask food . We need medication . We need a hand to force us out of the rubble . But we also need a small gadget that lets us holler out to the macrocosm so that everyone else has a chance to narrate us that it ’ll be okay . [ Boston ]

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