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iPhone5 vs. Samsung GalaxyS3

We spend a lot of our time on Social Networks and the more members they have the more revenue they can make out of advertisement. I joined another social network a few months ago called Google+. I like reading the tech pages as I enjoy knowing about the latest technology available. I quickly realized that the Google platform is not very Apple friendly and that Apple users are called iSheep. I could not believe the war of words between Apple users and Android users. Comparing cell phones and what makes one better than another phone. As I saw this war of words about something so meaningless it made me wonder about the world we live in. Daily I see people fight poverty, hunger, AIDS and many other things. Yet we fight the fact that one phone is better than another phone because it's battery can be removed. Honestly do I really need a faster phone, with a bigger screen and the fact that it's battery can be removed. The last few nights people have been queuing outside the Apple stores for the iPhone5, here in Mozambique people have to be at the hospital before 5 in the morning if they want to get their retroviral medicines. How many pairs of shoes, clothes,  and do we need the latest phone or a bigger screen TV? How much of the things we have in our home do we really need?

Every morning the grandmother across the street comes and clean her piece of land. She can not walk  properly anymore, yet she has to plant the seeds if she wants to eat. At the local rubbish dump, young men run behind the trucks to get the best of other peoples rubbish. We live in a era where we have so much information, but we choose to ignore the information that makes us uncomfortable. The information that makes us look at our lives and that makes us realize that true happiness is not found in material things.Not having the nicest clothes, the latest iPhone, BMW, does not mean it is the end of the world, because in other parts of the world millions of people are going to bed hungry, without medicines and clean drinking water.