Common ways of communication in Iran

Like many other countries, in Iran people have lots of ways for communicating, but some of them are special and interesting which are followed in article. The most popular way is telephone. Many people phone each other to communicate. Nearly all people in Iran have phone lines. In recent years, government spent lots of budget for it, esp. village phone lines and now all Iranian have phone lines. The second popular way is sending SMS by mobile phones. Cell phones are growing fast here. About 10 years ago, mobile phones were less than 0.5 million. But nowadays there cell phones for more than half of people (nearly 35-40 million).Iran has 2 cell phone operators. Next way is computers and internet.15 years ago, just few important organizations had it, but know many people have at least one at home, especially children. Iranian hackers are also famous and dangerous. In Iran, most children use computer for playing. Computer games are really cheap here, because those hackers crack games and copy them and sell games to people very cheap, it means that they’re not original. Very few teens work with computers. These are some talented teens. In some big cities in Iran, there are more teenagers like. In Iran there are lots of computer classes around, but many professional teens prefer to learn by themselves, except computer programmers who have to get classes. The problem for communicating with computer in Iran is viruses and hackers, which antiviruses can’t stop them… Like many other countries, people go to party, see each other outside, etc. But in special days like new years’ holidays, young people come to older peoples’ house, specially parents and grand parents. Young people give gifts from old people. They also eat fruits and nuts there. Then old people come to young peoples’ house. All relative and friend do this. It is a tradition here. There are many other ways like some other phone services and post, which has lots of facilities, but they’re not popular. Just few people use them.