A Thought On Phones Today

MarciKS said:
Yes but some people as usual...don't seem to have any understanding that there's a time and place for that kinda crap. Talking about someone's exploding bowels in a restaurant while people are eating is inappropriate. That crap wouldn't happen if we didn't have portable communication. Why can't they wait till they get home to do that stuff?
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Oh, it can wait until they get home, Marci, I manage just fine 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

There is absolutely SWEET NOTHING that is so pressing where I need to have a cellphone on me to answer calls, make calls, and surf the web when I'm out of the home for a few hours at a time.

The people who can't wait are the ones who have allowed today's technology to take over and run their lives. They aren't in control of their lives, technology is. Technology owns them.
 

Aunt Marg said:
Oh, it can wait until they get home, Marci, I manage just fine 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

There is absolutely SWEET NOTHING that is so pressing where I need to have a cellphone on me to answer calls, make calls, and surf the web when I'm out of the home for a few hours at a time.

The people who can't wait are the ones who have allowed today's technology to take over and run their lives. They aren't in control of their lives, technology is. Technology owns them.
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There isn't a day that goes by at work where they don't have their cellphones out. They even have watches with cellphone capabilities when they can't have their cell on them. It's ridiculous. I manage 8 hrs a day with no phone just fine. I'm the only employee whose phone is off and in the locker.
 
Devi said:
My only thought is this: what if you're out driving and your car breaks down and you have no cell phone on you. Then what?
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What did you do before we had cellphones and your car broke down?

For that matter...lets say you have your cellphone and the car breaks down and you're outta juice? Then what?

Devi don't get me wrong...I love ya to death...just trying to think in reasonable terms here.
 
MarciKS said:
There isn't a day that goes by at work where they don't have their cellphones out. They even have watches with cellphone capabilities when they can't have their cell on them. It's ridiculous. I manage 8 hrs a day with no phone just fine. I'm the only employee whose phone is off and in the locker.
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Your mention of cellphones out at work is a big no-no in my books, yet I see it all the time, and among employees who are actively working... actively employed in a job position where no cellphone use is required, yet they've got their noses stuck in the screens.

If I were an employer I would make it crystal clear, NO CELLPHONE USE, GET CAUGHT USING YOUR CELLPHONE AT WORK, YOU'RE FIRED.
 
MarciKS said:
What did you do before we had cellphones and your car broke down?

For that matter...lets say you have your cellphone and the car breaks down and you're outta juice? Then what?

Devi don't get me wrong...I love ya to death...just trying to think in reasonable terms here.
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How many calls do people get on their landlines that they think they’d be receiving them on their cellphone? Many don’t give out the cellphone number.

It’s easy to set your cellphone to quiet.

As for inane conversations on cellphones, those same people can choose someone in line to yap with. Hopefully not me.

If you’ve ever had an emergency and the cellphone saved the day, you’d carry one!!!
 
If my car broke down in the past, I guess we'd walk to a gas station to use their phone. Not sure if they (gas stations) still have phone booths.
 
Well sometimes life just happens. Whether we have a cellphone tethered to us or not. But there have been times when I've needed to use my cellphone to call a cab in order to get a ride home from work in bad weather and I had no service because someone was in the process of jacking my phone number. I went 2 days with no service. If I'd had a medical emergency I'd have likely died. It is what it is. I think we depend on technology too much these days.

If the entire internet or cell services ever were to go down we'd be screwed.
 
MarciKS said:
For that matter...lets say you have your cellphone and the car breaks down and you're outta juice? Then what?
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When my daughter was in college there were several times she called me in the middle of the night while she was out partying and said her cell phone was almost out of battery. I bought her a couple purse size emergency power banks. I'm not sure she uses them but I haven't received any more calls like that (could also be because she grew up).

It's funny when I watch old TV shows and they get into danger, like in Murder She Wrote when the lady was locked in a steam room and someone turned the temperature up on high, and all the person could do was pound on the door and yell, that's when I think "cell phone would help". Tho I have a similar thought about shows where people come home and a bad guy is hiding behind the curtains, I think "if only they had a dog it would be staring at the curtain wagging its tail or barking".
 
HoneyNut said:
When my daughter was in college there were several times she called me in the middle of the night while she was out partying and said her cell phone was almost out of battery. I bought her a couple purse size emergency power banks. I'm not sure she uses them but I haven't received any more calls like that (could also be because she grew up).

It's funny when I watch old TV shows and they get into danger, like in Murder She Wrote when the lady was locked in a steam room and someone turned the temperature up on high, and all the person could do was pound on the door and yell, that's when I think "cell phone would help". Tho I have a similar thought about shows where people come home and a bad guy is hiding behind the curtains, I think "if only they had a dog it would be staring at the curtain wagging its tail or barking".
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IF and I say that's a big IF...they are able to get service in that room. Sometimes cellphones don't have any service in interior rooms. Then they'd still be beating on the door.
 
I'm pleased with my iPhone.

It helps me with depositing checks and other banking financial transactions, pay bills, make purchases, watch television and movies, check the weather, snap a photo make a movie, email, text, serve as a flashlight, magnifying glass, calculator, stores contacts, and dials using voice commands if necessary including 911.

I do have to admit that it becomes addictive when I'm bored. I keep an eye on my usage and keep it a distance from my chair if I feel I'm using it a little too much. If need be it could replace my computer and the cost of increased usage would be more than covered by the savings in internet service. I could also swap my current internet router for a WiFi router and use my iPhone with that when at home to trim costs a little.

IMO now is the time to become comfortable with technology because it could be very helpful to me as I get older. If I wait I'm afraid it would all be too overwhelming for me to learn at a time when I might need it the most.
 
Aunt Marg said:
Because people are full of baloney!

Push comes to shove, nothing beats human-to-human contact and connections.
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The only reason that I have a smart phone is because twelve years ago, whilst still in business with my brother, he wanted to upgrade from our standard voice/text phones. Later, I found out that his phone came with built in satnav so that he could evaluate the distance to the pin when he played golf. We sold our business eleven years ago, his smart phone has now been consigned to history, he upgraded to something straight off the star-ship Enterprise, I still have that original 3G smart phone. Smart phone, that's a joke, damn thing is too smart for me. I still only use it for text and voice.

My landline phone is the same one that was issued to me in 1968, a rotary dial phone. Out of necessity I bought a digital landline simply because the rotary dial phone doesn't show incoming calls so I can't identify the caller. Large companies all now have the synthesised voice response that asks you to press one for the money, two for the show, rotary dial phones lack the technology to do that. The two phones are wired into the same socket with the modern one discretely hidden.

Email is something else that I never use but have, I couldn't be a member here without it. How do I communicate when a written message is required? I write a letter, by hand and, if it's going to a company I enclose a pre-stamped addressed envelope, that always evokes a response. Am I a dinosaur? I prefer to think of myself as: "Old school."
 
I've never had any interest in having a "smart" phone. Our landline works just fine, and we have a basic cell phone that we take with us when away from the house, in case one of the kids need to call, or we have car trouble. That suffices for our needs. I think I paid about $20 for this small phone, years ago, which easily fits into my shirt pocket, and we pay Tracfone about $7/mo. for service. Some people pay $1000 for a fancy cell phone, and $50/mo., or more for service. We'd rather spend our money on something more worthwhile.
 

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