@Kachina624 wrote:
@glb613 wrote:
@Kachina624 wrote:
@fthunt wrote:
Now that's a classic - never get incoming calls but (I) keep it turned OFF to save battery. Hmm (too funny)
@fthunt May I ask what you find so darn amusing? I keep a cell for emergencies only and for my convenience. I don't want to receive calls on it. As soon as you start handing out the number, you are obligated to leave it on and answer it or check for messages. I don't want to do that. I have a land-line for receiving calls.
I'll leave it to you to be a slave to your cell phone.
Why does anyone think if you have a cell phone on, you're a slave to it? Where does that thinking come from? At least half the people I know don't have a landline anymore. So, if you turn off your phone, you aren't able to make or recieve any calls. For those who have a landline, would any of you take the reciever of your land line "off the hook" 24/7? Would you unplug your landline phones? I'm sure the answer is no so why should a cell phone user turn off their phone? You can silence the phone so it doesn't wake you at night and still have it operational in case of an emergency. Just like how the rotary phone was replace by touch tone phones, landline phones will eventually be replaced by cell phones.
There are a lot of people who wear their "lack of being tech savvy" or "being old fashion" like a badge of honor. It doesn' make you better or less than someone who embraces every new tech item that comes along. It's not an all or nothing situation. You can have a cell phone, leave it on 24/7 and still have a life.
@glb613 Who said anything about not knowing how to use a cell phone? I have a smart phone and know how to use it.
As for being a slave to your cell, just look around you. I sat in a crowded waiting room at a hospital a couple weeks ago, and observed that every person who came into or left the area had a cell phone in his or her hand. You don't call that being a slave to the phone? Heavens forbid you leave home without it. Twenty five years ago you didn't have a phone and did quite nicely talking to people around you and making phone calls at home.
What makes you think they're answering phone calls? Before cell phones, people sat in waiting rooms and either thumbed through old, dirty, germy magazines, or they fidgeted with impatience.
I take my phone out while I'm in any type of waiting room simply to pass the time, not to respond to phone calls. I can check emails, cruise QVC, look a lunch spot up on Yelp, play solitaire or mah jong or cruise FB - all time-killers. Or buy something on Amazon ;-) People also bring Kindles and paperbacks, but a phone isn't something you have to remember to bring, for most people.
Although I've always been a person who will sometimes chat with strangers, I'm not into doing it out of bored desperation. I'd rather have my own entertainment.
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