Community weekly poll: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not?
- 3/6/07 1:41 PM
Maybe, it depends
by pinkwhitegold - 3/7/07 9:41 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
If I were surrounded by people WITHOUT cell phones, then yes I could live without them.
But if everyone around me has one, then it is more convenient to have one too.
I go to university now and I remember leaving my phone at home once...and that was a horrible feeling. It was so inconvenient. My friends had no ways of contacting me (I had to call them through payphones which were hard to find)
but when we misuse cell phones--like texting each other during lectures..then i would rather live without them. Honestly, I thought only high school kids did that--nope! university students do that too.
could live vs want to live
by prosen - 3/7/07 11:41 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We all could live without one, but why would we want to. They have made our lives so much more efficient, safer and easier. of course, there are all the minor negatives, i.e. rude people using them in inappropriate situations, but our lives are richer with them.
Maybe, it really depends...
by alswilling - 3/8/07 4:07 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
When I decided to get cell phone service, I was stranded away from home with a bad flywheel and no way to phone my wife or anyone else for help. In this area, Bellsouth has removed all the public pay phones except for the ones in the hospital ER waiting rooms and at the local college and university. Pay phones have been removed from the shopping areas altogether, primarily because so many people have cell phones these days. To complicate matters, most merchants have adopted a policy of not allowing customers to use their "company" phones. Hell, even if I'd had access to a pay phone, the only number I had with me was my home phone, and my wife was out of town. While I was stranded, I vowed that I would not be in that situation again. I promptly subscribed to a cell phone service family plan, which provided lines for my wife, my son, my daughter, and my mother-in-law--at a price, of course. The good thing about cell phones in an emergency situation is that it has an address book to store the numbers of your family and friends. Also, it is there wherever you might be, ready to use in an instant--provided, of course, that you are in an area where there is cell phone reception at all.
So, if the phone companies reinstalled the pay phones in public places, so someone in a pinch could have a means of communication, then yes I could do without my cell phone. My daughter, on the other hand, would like totally die if she had to like do without her cell phone--her lifeline, the mechanical object that has embedded itself into her right ear and right hand, essentially welding her right hand to her right ear--for a single day. We had to suspend her service for a day after three months of serious overages and repeated instructions for her to cut down on her talking time. She moped around like the world was coming to an end. She was almost to the point of tears by the time we increased our rate plan and restored her service. Me, I'm from the dayse before cell phones, when it was almost a necessity to have a CB radio in one's vehicle. Before that, there were pay phones on every corner and in every retail store and restaurant in every town that was on the map. I still remember how to send smoke signals, so I'll get by fine without a cell phone--as long as there is someone "out there" who remembers how to interpret smoke signals.
I've got one, but...
by Urkel. - 3/8/07 5:27 AM In reply to: Maybe, it really depends... by alswillingI can live without my cell phone, in fact 90% of the year I do. I basically have it as a "just in case" means of contact, when I'm on the road or on vacation. You ever tried to find a pay-phone these days?
I could but I'd rather not
by susanscott1989 - 3/8/07 9:50 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I've only had one for 1.5 years. I got it so that when my husband was sick and I needed to be his advocate and always accessible to his doctors I could be. It was major peace of mind. not to mention convenience. Now I just like the convenience of being able to call from practically any place at any time. It is a luxury I can afford.
I don't own one, so I'm ok
by Ed-duh-win - 3/8/07 4:05 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't own one. I probably never will within the next 2-4 years. I just see it as a gadget, a flashy status thing that my friends show off - I'm much more happier with my iPod.
terminating cell phone contracts early
by snookeroo7777 - 3/8/07 4:46 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I work as home health care provider, with out the cell some difficult situations would not have been taken care of as quickly. In some situations they probably would have taken taken care too late.Taking clients to doctor visits,chem,and other such necessary appointments with out instant communication would have been deadly.Outside of work, frankly I could care less, however they have been life savers in several situations concerning my clients. Do I think the cell phone companies are rip offs,absolutely. They know what they can do to get their money and hey they could care less about who it hurts or cures. Its all about the buck.They sell phones to people but people are nothing but a money maker for them. To them nothing is a moral or ethical issue, its about what they are going to get and they get.
Cell Phone or no Cell Phone
by starlette627 - 3/8/07 9:55 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have been wanting to buy one for a few months now but I don't want to be tied up to contracts... I am on desability and my car is real old so in case of brakedown or something goes wrong with my health I feel like I need to have a cell phone... Beside I have trouble with my back and at times I cannot get out of bed... My daughter was still living with me the last time it happened but now I am alone and if I cannot get up I need a phone I can put under my pillow so I can call for help if needed... I get phone calls maybe 5 times in a week on a good day... So I realy want to pay as I use contracts are so expensif and will never make it my worth in $$$... Not many accept and sell under these guideline...
Silver
live without cell phone
by rusynka - 3/9/07 9:06 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
This is my life blood
Could I live without a cell phone?
by magnogreato - 3/9/07 10:55 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Yes I could, no I won't...that's final....
with that being said, oh well, I'll just have to wait and see if the
xmt/rec area's become any better. I want to be able to sit in my own home and have a quality xmt/rec conversion with anyone. I have sprint and I live in Ocala, fl and the dead spots are all over and I feel that other service providers do the same thing. It takes towers to eliminate the problem so I'll just have to wait. Emergencies are handled easier with cell phones but you always had to improvise without them and I could do it again depending on the situ.
I could live without it, but wouldn't want to.
by camerams - 3/9/07 2:36 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have four kids who are out and about and feel much better about always being able to get in touch with them. I'm also never at home and don't have a work phone, so I'd be out of touch with my family if I didn't have a cell phone. I don't talk on the phone in restaurants or is other public places where I'd be disturbing people - I think that's terribly rude. I also don't talk while I driving and I tend to swear under my breath a people who do, especially those who attempt to turn or pull in and out of parking spots while on their cell phones. How stupid!
No. Not a chance.
by hipcatticus - 3/10/07 11:35 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am a salesman for a rather large construction company. In the last 8 months I have put over 24,000 work related miles on my vehicle. I am on the road six days a week and my coverage area ranges from 70 miles south of our office to 70 miles north. Without a cell phone, I'd be crippled. Some days traffic is a calm reasonable thing, one can drive 20 miles in about 30 minutes.... other days, that same route will take an hour and a half. Predicting what time I can get to an appointment is more art and luck than science.
I know my clients appreciate it when I call to say that I am running early or late. I also know that my installers appreciate it when they can reach me with an installation question on one of my jobs. No cell phone would decrease my productivity by at least half.
Very True...
by bcolletti - 3/10/07 4:07 PM In reply to: No. Not a chance. by hipcatticusI agree with you on this, it is very important for some people to have a cell phone for their work....but, sometimes, it is unnecessary the way people are walking around in a store, pushing a buggy, flying around the corner, and all of a sudden, you feel this terrible jolt, crashing sound and you feel like you're going into cardiac arrest!!!!...that's what makes me so upset with those kinds of people....I have a cell phone, but, I do leave it at home alot....I have sick mother in Louisiana, so sometimes, they cannot reach me on my home phone....
Given an option, yes. My occupation requires me to have one
by wyvern7 - 3/10/07 6:32 PM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I work for a telecommunications company. We have to be accessible at all times, so I don't really have a choice. If you don't have obligations that require contact, I think most people coule live without them. Real life isn't usually so cooperative. Families, commuting, business communications and the occasional flat tire are all arguments in favor of cell phones.
Cost is the object.
by maninplaid - 3/11/07 8:15 AM In reply to: Could you live without your cell phone? Why or why not? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am not a telephone person, period. A cell phone would be useful for incidental use, but in my area there is really no genuine price competition. This area is mountainous with a fair size urban hub. There are only two carriers that actually cover the whole county (forget about adjacent counties), and monthly service starts at about $50 for the most minimal plans. There are numerous other carriers with competitive rates, but they have very spotty reception. Everywhere you see people taking their cell phones for a walk trying to pick up a signal. For a while, Simple Freedom provided a very good prepaid service in this area, but Verizon kicked them off their towers by refusing to sell them surplus airtime anymore. Even the nation's largest cellphone company, Cingular, has very poor coverage in this area. If and when real competition arrives, I will jump on the bandwagon, but until then...
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