cell phone or not? (cell phones, accident, places, messages)

[Tzaphkiel]

This came up on another thread....

Do you use a cell phone or not? What are your feelings on having a cell phone or not?

[2mares]

I broke down little over a yr. ago and got one. Most times I wish I had not. I dont have a land line, so I guess I need some form of communicator. My bf calls me at least 5 times a day. It drives me nuts.

[TheImportersWife]

I can't imagine life without my iPhone.

[scarmig]

Nope. It is not worth it. I notice many people are paying twelve-hundred dollars a year for their cell phone.

So they can chat.

If I have something to say, I'll call you. I won't call you from my car, and 90% of the places I go will have a phone available. If it is an emergency, I'm either prepared to deal with it, or I'm in no shape to dial a phone anyway. If you have something to say to me, you know I'm either at work or at home, and if I'm not in one of those two places, I'm probably not anyplace where I can help you anyway.

I find cell phones have greatly eroded time-management skills. Remember back when you actually had to *plan* a day or a meeting, and not just wing-it? Remember when you had to know how to change your own tire instead of calling a service on your cell phone? Remember when you *trusted* your kids to take care of themselves with the skills you taught them, rather than keeping them on a leash?

[MAtheBanker]

I only have a cell phone. Land lines are so 1990...

I rarely call anyone local, most of my family is out of state. I make several calls to each of them monthly, so it's just easier to have unlimited long distance minutes on a phone I can carry with me anywhere. I pay about $50/mo. all together.

[Sunnnee]

Can't live without mine. It's my computer away from home.

[Rhett_Butler]

Cell phones are almost a necessity today IMO.... We ditched our landline about 5 years ago..

Now the thing I don't understand is texting.... Why the heck take the time to type messages back and forth for an hour, when you can knock out the conversation in five minutes by just calling and talking to the person?

[fleetiebelle]

I have a cell phone, but I rarely use it--I'm just not a phone person. They're convenient in an emergency, but sometimes I don't want to be available. It's a tool for my convenience, not for anyone else's.

It really disturbs how some people, as a friend of mine put it, "suckle from the teat of technology". When you're out with friends and one by one people pull out of the conversation to text or call other people who aren't there. When people go to a movie and hold their phone the whole time so they can check it constantly during the film. Or someone calls you and you can't answer, so they text and call back repeatedly until you pick up out of frustration. People answer their phones on dates and job interviews. It's rude, and I won't participate.

[natalayjones]

Originally Posted by scarmig

Nope. It is not worth it. I notice many people are paying twelve-hundred dollars a year for their cell phone.

When I first saw that I was like "Holy Hobbits!" but then I realized I spend about 1,400 a year but I couldn't live without my phone. Well I guess I could live but it would make life so much harder.

I broke my G1 about a month ago and even though I have insurance I had to wait 7 - 10 days for the replacement. Well my bf had to work late because they had a lot of call outs and left me a voicemail at work asking me early to pick up my son (he never heard from me so he called his mom to do it - thank god he's smart) I was in the field that day so I didn't get his message so when I get home at 6:30 - no one's there.

We don't have a landline so I couldn't call him so I sent him an email which goes right to his phone and he didn't respond. I went next door to use the phone but silly me I don't know anyone's phone number by heart except my his and he wasn't answering the phone. So then I go online and start looking up traffic reports imagining they've been in some horrible accident and are dying right this second. Then I checked my phone records and was able to pull my call history from the previous months. Went back to the neighbors and just started calling them - no one knows where he is. By the time he walked in at 4am I was hysterical (even more so when I saw he was alone)

I need my cell phone

[lovesMountains]

Originally Posted by Tzaphkiel

This came up on another thread....

Do you use a cell phone or not? What are your feelings on having a cell phone or not?

Have used one for 10+ years. Still prefer having a landline at home though.