We’re All Going Crazy For VoIP Phones

By 2013, 288 million people will be using VoIP phones, came the futuristic prediction today from market research firm In-Stat that will see us move a step closer to Matrix-style living.

But seriously, there must be loads of industries completely done over by new technological developments.

What about telephone companies once mobile phones hit the market? I don’t think I know anyone with a landline anymore, except for my parents.

Mobile phone companies must have thought they’d hit the jackpot when texting first launched at 10p a pop, until social network sites let all the teenagers communicate for free with their mates.

I suppose these companies have gained again really with the advent of mobile internet, but all of it brings again another problem/benefit; depending on who you are: relationship infidelity.

I read this article yesterday, which if you want to you can read here, and it may have just been my maudlin Monday afternoon mood, but I think it put into permanent words many depressing truths, and managed to kill off whatever romantic slivers still remained in me.

If you haven’t bothered to read it all (it’s well long) fear not as here I shall summarise: the human race is no longer monogamous, eroticism is not encouraged by closeness and intimacy, but quite the opposite, and ‘cheating’ in every which way and form has increased massively thanks to all the available avenues technology has presented us with.

It basically says that your partner will DEFINITELY have said a lot of things to someone of the opposite sex, via various technologies, which blur the lines of friendship, and that they deliberately hide this from you.

Plus whatever else they may get up to online.

It’s harrowing to realise that your partner no longer sees you ‘in that way’, and prefers the virtual fantasy world to anything you can possibly offer.

I don’t know what constitutes cheating by VoIP phones and what doesn’t, but I feel even more depressed about relationships, humans and the failed ambitions of love then ever before, and thought you should too! Happy Tuesday!