Boredom killer

The cellphone has become an integral part of Pakistani life, it is hard to imagine life without it anymore.  Every single person is using them, particularly people by those who have a great deal of free time and lots of people to talk to. Gossip gets around fairly fast. I was in a bus, there was this lady who had this phone stuck to her ear and she was asking virtually about everyone in her family and group of friends and telling them all kinds of stories. No sooner she was diconnected because she used up the credit, she added credit resumed her gossiping.
All kinds of people, many who are doing fairly menial jobs are busy receiving and making calls. People love staying connected with anyone they know. There are others who have few friends and want to talk, I received one and that unknown person simply wanted to hear me talk about anything. He even went so far as to ask me to lie to him,  because there was really nothing to talk about. He simply wanted to hear a voice. Lonely people with no friends at all who envy those who have them.
The most common use of course is for lovers to connect.  All in all it is just a means to kill boredom. Smartphones may have added games which keep preoccupied,  but to actually spend time talking with people is perhaps the most fun of all. People talk for hours on end. It has become so common that no one really pays attention to it any more. 
A bored rickshaw-walah or taxi-walah waiting for a passenger bides his time on his cell phone. People call up their families in other towns and cities. This form of connection enables people to remain touch with their families in an instant instead of waiting for letters or be at the mercy of the telephone company.
One of the biggest advantage of cell phones is the instant decision businessmen can make. Buying and and selling on the spur of the moment. There is no need to travel anywhere to deliver a message. The faster decisions via the cellphone enables quicker transactions.
Many marriages have taken place in recent years, because of the connection, cell phones provide. It is no longer dating, just chat on the phone. This has become a trend. When such couples become parents, they are aware that their children will do the same. Society in general is becoming more mature, tolerant to some extent very permissive.