Cell phones: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone?
- 10/17/07 2:23 PM
WEAR A HEADSET OR DON'T USE IT IN THE CAR!
by mattmoris - 10/18/07 2:54 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sometimes I like to talk on the phone while in the car to cure boredom and tiredness and to catch up with friends I haven't talked to in a while. But, I wear a HEADSET! I know there's still some risk, but it is much less than having only 1 hand on the wheel! IF you are going to talk on your cell while driving, a HEADSET IS A MUST! I see too many close calls!
Just because I could doesn't mean I would
by punterjoe - 10/18/07 3:24 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I find the mobile a real convenience - though one I use with great restraint. Having a per-minute prepay plan helps the self discipline <grin>.
I'm not a heavy phone user, yet I use my mobile far more than my landline. It's a great convenience - but not a necessity. Still, even though it just sits in my pocket 99% of the time, it's reassuring to know it's there, should it be needed.
Could you live without your cellphone?
by slofox - 10/18/07 3:37 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Sure I could but with a large BUT. I use my cellphone rarely but when I do use it, it is because there is no alternative. I have the security firm ring my cellphone if my shop alarm is triggered. This means I can go places and still monitor shop security. Similarly, I can be somewhere else yet still be contactable by whoever is relieving in the shop. For me, it is a "get out of jail" card.
A summer without a cell phone
by Abby Clark - 10/18/07 5:39 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
Like most people, I was inseparable from my cell phone for many years. I think I have been pretty courteous in public but I still had to have it with me all the time, and even if I was in class I kept it on vibrate so that I wouldn't miss a call. But this summer, that all changed. I moved to Alaska where I didn't have cell phone coverage and guess what? I survived! It was weird at first but I learned not to be dependent on it. Now that I'm back in the states, I use my phone again but I am able to go for a while without looking at it. I am less worried about missing a call or sleeping with it next to my pillow. I think it is a wonderful convenience but we definitely use them way tooo much!
I have it so people can contact me in case of emergency
by peripo - 10/18/07 5:44 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I could live quite easily without a cell phone. But I have to admit I'd feel vulnerable without it.
I'm rarely ever near my landline, so there's something very comforting in knowing that if anything happened to my children at school I could be contacted immediately rather than have to wait until I went to pick them up. Or my elderly mother, or my husband, or whatever emergency may occur.
What I think has happened is that the cell phone, instead of being a safety net has become an obsession with a lot of people. I know my niece is never more than 5 feet from hers, and that's only when she's in the shower!!
T-Mobile Prepaid for Emergencies
by john55440 - 10/18/07 7:18 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
T-Mobile Prepaid is a very cheap way of keeping an emergency cell phone on hand, and coverage is excellent in our area.
In the past, people used public pay phones, but in our area, they have all been removed.
Nope, sure couldn't do without it
by RV_mom - 10/18/07 7:41 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
We're on the road 6 months out of the year, and actually have two cell phone companies, since coverage isn't universal. We just have the very basic usage, nites and weekends free. We had a land line for a year, but never used it, while we used the cell phones all the time, so we cancelled the tethered service. If we had to, we could get phone cards and keep in touch with our kids using pay phones, but cells are so much more convenient. Not to mention if we were to break down somewhere on the road, that cell phone could make a huge difference. All that being said, we do NOT talk on the cell while driving, ordering food, dealing with other people, etc. If we have to make a call related to some service we're ordering, we walk away from the counter, make the call and get the related information and then go back to the counter when the call is over. But then.... we're no longer in that rush rush rush get it all done yesterday mode.
It depends.
by Mollyp - 10/19/07 7:04 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
As usual, don't blame the cell phone; blame the person using it!
It is a great security factor. However, most of the use is very rude! I make it a point to join in phone conversations of people who insist on sharing their phone calls with everyone around them. If they want to let the world in on the private conversation, then the world has the freedom to comment on the particulars of the conversation.
If I hear a store mentioned, I'll make it a point to agree or disagree with the choice. If medical information is being discussed, I'll ask what the problem is. This is usually met with nastiness, but I then inform the other party that they made the phone call public when they insisted on speaking in a loud, invasive manner. If I can hear it, it isn't private!!!
Yes
by Sr. Mary Alma Vandervest - 10/19/07 7:17 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I reluctantley accepted a used phone from a fried who got a new one. I want it only for emergencies, especially when in a car with no phone close by. Since I have a lot of minutes on my phone, I also use it to make calls from the workplace that I don't want charged to me. This happens infrequently. smav
cell phones
by ncjain21 - 10/19/07 9:26 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
cell phones are today 's need .we should keep it with us every time. no body knows who wants me .
Perhaps
by gobraves97 - 10/19/07 10:28 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I would sift through the entire thread but since I'm about to take a sledgehammer to my computer, I'll make this quick. I'm 30 and got my first one 2 weeks ago. I've done fine without one before, so as of now it is pretty much my new toy.
I already am
by fubijar36 - 10/19/07 6:22 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
A couple of years ago I decided to get a Tracfone, because we go back and forth from SE Missouri to Atlanta several times a year. Since I have to buy time periodicaly to keep it active I have over three hundred minutes built up. Where we live there is NO cell signal. We only have dialup and just recently satellite access to the net. If my Jeep had less than the three hundred thousand miles on it and I was less than seventy years old, I would trash the cell phone. They are among the most abused tools in existence.
no i can't
by shebeeb1900 - 10/19/07 9:48 PM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
i have a craze for mobile phones. i use it frequently. it gives me a lot of pleasure by using it. it will help me in an emergency. in this modern world cell phone is necessery for a typical man.
I mean, of course I could - but I really wouldn't like it
by munalemj - 10/20/07 12:33 AM In reply to: Poll: Could you live without your cell phone? by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I feel incomplete, like I'm missing something if I don't have my cell phone with me. I use it to stay connected to email, facebook and things like that, and that clock comes in quite handy as well, lol.
i already have
by killav - 10/20/07 12:43 AM In reply to: I mean, of course I could - but I really wouldn't like it by munalemjI remember what it was like before cell phones and I wanted it back. I the last six months life is good again, I can go to the store without 20 people having to call me about nothing.
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