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Cell phones: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone?
- 10/17/07 2:23 PM
It depends
by Michael00360 - 10/18/07 6:17 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I use to just use my cell phone for emergencies, but now I also use it as a business phone. It's just easier for me to use my cell phone instead of my house phone for my little computer repair business.
My cell phones keep me connected
by shemt - 10/18/07 6:53 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I carry two cell phones that are on 24/7. One of the phones is my family phone - all 5 of us are on a plan that gives us free text (which we use a lot) and anywhere calls (which is great because 4 of us live in OKC and the fifth lives in NYC). My second phone is a Blackberry provided by the company I work for and I am on call 24/7/365. I don't see it as the ball and chain some people do, but as a tool that helps keep me on top of things at work. I'm sure I could live without the cell phones but I really appreciate being able to stay connected to my family and work.
hate the cell phone
by royboi3202 - 10/18/07 7:13 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i cant belive the people that think there so important that they have to have something stuck in there ear all the time.just not for me.have you seen people taking a corner with a phone and hand up to there ear no way could they handel a emergincy hope our county get there act to geather so are people pay attion to driving
Of Course,but . . . .
by sedengmania - 10/18/07 7:23 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Of course i can, but my life will be boring. no music, no camera, no message, no call, no video, and a lot! well in these days cell phones are a must-have for many people. but for me, its just an entertainment (and for emergencies). so why buyin' an iPod, instead of buying a gadget that can do many things other than playin' music or video?
Bad choice
by SkywayTraveler - 10/18/07 8:07 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
There are many, many, many folks who could have LIVED without their cellphones if they had only not talked on their cellphone while driving that day.
Cell-Phone Rudeness
by jaxbarney - 10/18/07 8:35 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
It's a very sad society when we have to buy jammers to help counter act the rude jerks on cell phones. I know from talking to police that the cell phones a causing more accidents than all other sources.
I live in Montana so I get to look forward to there never being anything done about this problem. We rank last or next to last on getting anything done that has to do with safety.
Gotta have my cell
by Bob_Perry - 10/18/07 8:39 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
My land line is now VOIP. When I loose power or cable for any length of time my cell is my only "lifeline". Seems to happen all too often. If I had my original land line, I could adapt but my wife really likes that electronic leash!
Simple answer....
by jgvillan - 10/18/07 9:58 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
No.
I would go crazy not knowing where my kids are, and not to have contact with them if something is wrong when they need to call me.
phone necessity
by marine364 - 10/18/07 10:41 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I am a Physician and have gotten along well for over 10 yrs wo a cell phone. I have a pager and it works fine, I have never missed any medical emergency. I think it's very dangerous for people young and old to use phones while driving. I see many serious accidents as a result.
One man's opinion
using cell phones when driving
by Bob_Perry - 10/18/07 10:50 AM In reply to: phone necessity by marine364There was a recent news story where some young people had to be convinced that text messaging while driving was dangerous! I'm not sure which concerns me most, the texting while driving or the idea that they thought it was perfectly safe to do so!
Live Without
by meniff - 10/18/07 10:56 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I have gotten to the point where the only reason I want to keep my cell phone is for emergency - especially on the road.
Could you live without your cell phone?
by Marlena Stinebaugh - 10/18/07 11:33 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Cell phones are good for emergencies and short calls verifying to someone that you will be making your appoinyment with them on time, etc. Unfortunately if you buy a T-Mobile prepaid cell phone as I have you loose the money you've paid them because they won't work. I lost four hundred dollars of prepaid minutes to T-Mobile this year because I couldn't get reception from any towers to be able to use them. I called T-Mobile to complain and they told me that they have a contract with Cingular that allows T-Mobile customers to use the Cingular towers for reception. They said they would get their engineers to fix my problem. It never happened, so in Sept my minutes ran out. I was dumb enough to buy another $100. worth of minutes to try to save the money/minutes I lost and one of the two phones was reactivated. But, guess what!!! It won't work either, in fact it's worse than before. Now when I try to use it it says for emergency use only. I'm sure in an emergency it wouldn't work either. So, if you're a cell phone dummy like me Don't buy T-Mobile!!!
I picked "maybe"
by Aimee H. - 10/18/07 11:35 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Mainly I see that I could probably do without the cell phone. However, as others pointed out, pay phones are fast disappearing. When I had a pager, I wouldn't stop to make a call from a pay phone-especially at night-or when I was cutting it close to curfew. Now that I have a kid and I work full time, I find it's important to always have my phone on me in case of an accident, emergency, or illness as I'm not always at my desk. The other reason I find having a cell is handy is because most phone numbers I need or call are on it, and let's face it-carrying a little cell phone is a hell of a lot more convenient than toting an address book.
hooked on my phone!
by Janette0104 - 10/18/07 11:43 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I was shocked to see over 50% of the responses to the survey was that they could live without their cell phone. I can't go to the mail box without mine! I'm not on it that much, but I feel nekkid without it! It's a security blanket for me. I know any of my children or other family members can reach me any time, day or night. My husband is a heart patient and I know I can reach emergency responders within seconds. This is a great comfort to me. I'm a gadget kinda girl, so I guess the fascination of the cell phone hoooked me many years ago. I love my cell phone and look forward to the newest models being offered. I go way back to when my cell phone weighed more than my purse and was often too large to put in my purse! I remember in 2nd or 3rd grade being taught telephone ettiquette. Maybe we should bring back the old days way of thinking and teach young children to be considerate of others when using cell phones.
Maybe
by Travis Ernst - 10/18/07 12:12 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I don't think so. I carry it for medical purposes, so being without it would be not having communications in case of a medical emergency in my case. I use it as a lifeline. There are very few drop out zones. I had the primary tower drop off, but if I faced another direction I could pick up the other tower 1.5 miles away by the interstate, barely, but enough to register 2 bars on the phone.
I do understand the cases you are talking about, the people who shout into the phones on public busses that you want to smack. They must have hearing damage from their iPods blaring at 110 dB's or lack of brain cells. You talk on a cell as you would on your home phone, at normal volume.
In cases where the room volume is loud, bars or restraunts, I go out to the hallways and use it. The phones stupid mic's pick up the ambient noise more than it does my voice. I don't need the reciepient of my call to hear all the room racket.
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