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In a Danish talk show I heard earlier today that many people are enslaved by their mobile phone
Many people especially young people do not get the sleep they need
In addition, many are stressed by their cell phone when it rings or they receive a message / mail.
They feel the urge to reply here up now
Here's my life regarding my cell phone.
When I go to sleep I put it in silence mode
When I'm out for a few hours I let my cell phone stay at home.
When in shower or whatever I do in my department and my cell phone ring I do my thing first then-If I remember it- I take a look to see who it was.
Markus
Sailor Steve
06-18-13, 07:06 PM
Somehow I kind of doubt it. I take my phone with me everywhere, just in case a friend wants to get hold of me. How often does it actually happen? Well, I'm on a "Pay As You Go" plan, which for most people would be a bad thing. It works for me because I never use it. I pay $15 per month for 200 minutes. They roll over. I currently have 1155 minutes waiting for me to find a reason to use them. My total call time so far for the month of June is 1:10. One minute and ten seconds in the past eighteen days.
No, I don't think I'm a slave to my phone.
The computer, on the other hand...
Tchocky
06-18-13, 07:10 PM
Ah but Steve, when your phone is also your computer it gets messy.
Sure I'm typing this from my desktop but a good 70% of my news/chats/whatever comes through the cellphone.
I have mine with me most of the time, except in work when it's off for hours on end. I get the odd strange voicemail from someone who's not used to calling a dead phone ;)
Sailor Steve
06-18-13, 07:12 PM
I intentionally have a phone that doesn't do internet. When I go outside I don't want to be in touch with the rest of the world - just the part I can see and enjoy now.
Tchocky
06-18-13, 07:16 PM
I intentionally have a phone that doesn't do internet. When I go outside I don't want to be in touch with the rest of the world - just the part I can see and enjoy now.
I've got an old reliable like that in a drawer somewhere, it's coming with me to the Far East in the fall for a couple weeks of disconnect. Just me 'n' my camera
Also hardly something anyone would want to steal.
Platapus
06-18-13, 07:25 PM
I have a Jitterbug that stays in my car all the time. It waits for me, I don't wait for it. :yep:
The Frau has one of them "smert fones". Well it was smart enough to delete all of her contacts and the wonderful cloud was unable to restore them. Hence she does not have my cell number on her cell phone.
I must remedy that..... one of these days. :D
Red October1984
06-18-13, 07:37 PM
I have a Jitterbug that stays in my car all the time. It waits for me, I don't wait for it. :yep:
:rotfl2:
I had a Samsung Flight II for the longest time. That was the best phone there ever was. The thing was indestructable.
I lost it in the woods in February....found it two weeks later after it rained, snowed, and plunged to 23F.
Changed the battery and it works. I still have the thing. I'm not currently using it though. The one I currently have is a piece o' crap. A Pantech Renue.
I haven't had the thing 6 months and the screen is cracked and I think the battery is going out on me. :dead: When it goes out, maybe sometime this month...I want to reactivate my Flight II.
Stealhead
06-18-13, 08:20 PM
Cant you just swap the sim card?
em2nought
06-18-13, 08:29 PM
Total slave, but not by choice. I have to answer business calls. What I really hate though are those "supposed" google calls for your free listing. I get those all the friggin' time. :down: Don't really care for calls from people who have chosen not to pay rent for two months, but want their overlock off now. LMAO
I got rid of my cellphone 10 years ago. I rarely miss it.
AVGWarhawk
06-18-13, 09:14 PM
May cell phone is an electronic leash. I'm always to have and respond to any calls. In short, I'm never off from work. Yes, a call or incoming email message is unsettling. I have the urge to answer immediately. I have too. The cell is the scourge to my sanity and peace of mind. It is expected that I'm available 24/7. It has ruined many a planned outing. Personally, I hate the damn things. When I retire I will not carry a cell phone. If I'm not reachable there is a reason for it.
Father Goose
06-18-13, 09:22 PM
I currently have 1155 minutes waiting for me to find a reason to use them. My total call time so far for the month of June is 1:10. One minute and ten seconds in the past eighteen days.
Dr. Steve, why don't you post your phone number here? I'm sure some Ubirats in need of counseling can help you with that surplus of minutes? :O:
Sailor Steve
06-18-13, 10:13 PM
Dr. Steve, why don't you post your phone number here? I'm sure some Ubirats in need of counseling can help you with that surplus of minutes? :O:
First you'll have to explain to me why I would ever want to do something like that. The last time we tried that they decided they were more in need of giving advice than getting it. They were probably right, but now I don' gots no job no mo'.
nikimcbee
06-18-13, 10:49 PM
Are you enslaved by your cellphone?
no.
Red October1984
06-18-13, 10:56 PM
Cant you just swap the sim card?
Already tried. The SIM in the new phone is the wrong size. :/\\!!
no.
The fact that you don't have a capital "N" suggests that this message was, indeed, typed from a cell phone...
Is that correct Sir? :hmmm: :O:
May cell phone is an electronic leash. I'm always to have and respond to any calls. In short, I'm never off from work. Yes, a call or incoming email message is unsettling. I have the urge to answer immediately. I have too. The cell is the scourge to my sanity and peace of mind. It is expected that I'm available 24/7. It has ruined many a planned outing. Personally, I hate the damn things. When I retire I will not carry a cell phone. If I'm not reachable there is a reason for it.
What kind of job do you have?
nikimcbee
06-18-13, 10:59 PM
n0.
nikimcbee
06-18-13, 11:00 PM
itz my Friday night and ill type howevah I want.
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Red October1984
06-18-13, 11:19 PM
itz my Friday night and ill type howevah I want.
:rotfl2: :rotfl2: :rotfl2:
South Park is hilarious
the_tyrant
06-19-13, 02:14 AM
I'll rather have the annoying arseholes (*cough* little brother) to call me than to find me in person.
HundertzehnGustav
06-19-13, 02:45 AM
prepaid card - all in all about 30 bucks a month for texting and about 5-8 minutes of conversations every month.
minimal samsung folding phone: phone, sms.
not even a radio or a camera or SD card slot.
working in IT, you are connected enough.
5 years ago , people got connected and thought it was cool to be online, have your stuff online, wherever you go, whatever you do, as long as you get internet.
i shook my head back then, and LOL today when they scream "BIG BROTHER! NSA! GOOGLE!"
naah. I aint on no leash... i think :D
AVGWarhawk
06-19-13, 09:00 AM
What kind of job do you have?
Transportation.
fireftr18
06-19-13, 09:59 AM
Are you enslaved by your cellphone?
For me, I think that's an understatement.
For my sports medicine job, it's my primary phone. I don't have an office of my own, so it takes the place of a computer, especially when on the field. The camera feature is extremely useful also. During bad weather, I also use it to follow the weather radar. Thankfully, I at least get some of the cost reimbursed.
It's my primary contact number for my part time job as a fire instructor. Useful for quick access to information.
When working small events at Kentucky Speedway, it comes in handy to make calls, browse the internet, etc. during down time. Major events, I don't have time.
On top of all that, I use it for regular social calls also. I give that number to people instead of my home number.
I will add that at night, It goes on the charger and not in the bedroom unless I have reason to expect a call.
When I was working as a firefighter, it was a convenience and on rare occasion, I used it while on scene for fire dept business.
Armistead
06-19-13, 11:37 AM
I remember when they first came out I got a big bag phone. Using them back then was fairly expensive, easy to go over your minutes. My problem was girls then. I recall being in shock at $2-300 cell bills. I bet many of us have 40K plus in cell phone use over the last 20 years.
How did we ever survive without them....
BrucePartington
06-19-13, 01:17 PM
Much like Steve, I hardly make any calls, and those are short.
But the internet is my window to the universe, to the point it replaces tv altogether.
However I always have it with me. That is the purpose of it being mobile, I think.
I only replace them when they become unusable, and always go for the simplest models, for lots of reasons, mainly for longer battery life and reliability. I find smart phones to be somewhat more prone to failure, from both hardware and software problems.
I think younger people become more easily enslaved by phones because of their natural need to socialize intensively, while us older folks prefer some golden peace and quiet.
But I've known grown ups who became totally enslaved by the "gotta have the latest model that just came out" syndrome, buying a new phone almost every other month, without being sure they can pay their apt rent at the end of the month. Sad.
Red October1984
06-19-13, 01:32 PM
Transportation.
I see...That could easily be a job where you need a cell phone. :)
Spiced_Rum
06-19-13, 01:33 PM
I am not a slave to my phone. I use it at work [because they provided it, and I just pay for personal calls] but having a cell phone means getting calls from people at any time of day, on any day, just because they can call you. I do not often respond when at home because I am not paid outside of work hours.
My old phone is gathering dust in a draw where I left it four years ago.
I miss the days of having a pager. If it went off it was an emergency and meant something.
A cell phone is a useful tool for travel, especially with rail/airport delays, and I have it when driving. :yeah: And no need to carry around coins for a payphone. (Where does Superman get changed now?)
However, if I go to a bar with friends then I want to have a drink and talk to them face to face, not sit there talking on the phone or texting other people.:/\\!!
My friends I do not talk about situation where you need your cellphone in your jobs a.s.o
The program talked about ordinary people that doesn't need to answer the phone in the middle of the night were they supposed to be asleep.
Markus
WernherVonTrapp
06-19-13, 03:55 PM
I just purchased the second cellphone of my life this past January. Before that, I haven't had one since the late 90s. Yup, I went all that time w/o owning a cellphone. I only use mine for text or talk. Takes me too darn long to text, so I don't use it for that often. I'm not a big fan of phone conversations to begin with. I prefer more social, personal, face-to-face, discussions. So, no, I'm not a slave to my cellphone.
Spiced_Rum
07-18-13, 05:06 PM
Just watched this on You Tube and thought it rather apt. I know some people that are just like this.:yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf8y4x9nT94
I put a £10 top up into my phone six months ago and still have £3.40 of left...
Soooo... Nooooo I ain't enslaved by my mobile phone :arrgh!:
Cheers
Gary
Father Goose
07-18-13, 07:34 PM
I just purchased the second cellphone of my life this past January. Before that, I haven't had one since the late 90s. Yup, I went all that time w/o owning a cellphone. I only use mine for text or talk. Takes me too darn long to text, so I don't use it for that often. I'm not a big fan of phone conversations to begin with. I prefer more social, personal, face-to-face, discussions. So, no, I'm not a slave to my cellphone.
I envy you. That's what I'm looking forward to the most in retirement...tossing the cell phone. :salute:
I keep hoping for an EMP attack but so far no such luck. :nope:
Rockstar
07-18-13, 07:39 PM
EMP attack or a Coronal Mass Ejection like the one that hit earth in the mid 1800's ought to do it too.
sharkbit
07-18-13, 08:38 PM
Ummm...no, I'm not enslaved to my precioussssssss!!!!
:)
nope, bcoz I don't have a cellphone.
Betonov
07-19-13, 04:53 AM
It's always with me.
Work, coffee, hills... Don't turn it off in the night, don't put it on that ''special pile'' in the middle of the table when I'm in a company.
But I don't loose sleep over it and I don't feel anxiety when someone calls or sends me a text. It's a tool, not an organ
antikristuseke
07-19-13, 05:11 AM
It's always with me.
Work, coffee, hills... Don't turn it off in the night, don't put it on that ''special pile'' in the middle of the table when I'm in a company.
But I don't loose sleep over it and I don't feel anxiety when someone calls or sends me a text. It's a tool, not an organ
This, besides, due to the nature of my work I can't turn off my phone when I'm asleep.
Betonov
07-19-13, 05:21 AM
I was once asked to put the phone on a pile in the middle of table.
The first one to reach for it pays the bill.
My response was: lets play a better game. Don't bore with useless trivia so I don't have the urge to reach for my phone.
I left at that moment, too many eyebrows were raised :)
VipertheSniper
07-19-13, 05:30 AM
I was once asked to put the phone on a pile in the middle of table.
The first one to reach for it pays the bill.
My response was: lets play a better game. Don't bore with useless trivia so I don't have the urge to reach for my phone.
I left at that moment, too many eyebrows were raised :)
Haha, nice one.
Enslaved to my phone? Absolutely not. I hardly get any calls and when I do, most of the time it's to arrange a meeting. Texts I get even less, and no notifications from the whole social media BS. Also I don't feel the urge to comment on everything that's posted on FB, so even if I have my internet or Wi-Fi switched on, the notifications I get are mostly put straight to the bin.
BossMark
07-19-13, 05:37 AM
Well I must admit that every where I go me phone goes with me (apart from bath or shower) :haha:
Spiced_Rum
07-19-13, 09:41 AM
Well I must admit that every where I go me phone goes with me (apart from bath or shower) :haha:
Do you have special insurance in case of dropping it down the toilet?
Are you enslaved by your cellphone?
Well in a nutshell, no. I will never let it control me. :smug:
I'm going to have to buy a cell phone soon. Probably one of those smart phone multimedia devices. :nope:
Are you enslaved by your cellphone?
My cellphone told me to answer "No"...
<O>
soopaman2
07-19-13, 01:47 PM
Enslaved, honestly yes.
I listen to podcasts at work on it, Opie and Anthony in the morning on it, Howard Stern replays on the same service in the afterbnoon.
It replaced my tv and car stereo, xm/sirius is a great service.
All beamed to my samsung galaxy on free cable company wifi, in many locations.
Platapus
07-19-13, 02:32 PM
I really hate when I am in a conversation with someone and they have to fiddle with their cell phone.
Cripes, if you don't want to talk to me, I won't.
But then they get all confused when I get up an leave. :nope:
soopaman2
07-19-13, 02:36 PM
I really hate when I am in a conversation with someone and they have to fiddle with their cell phone.
Cripes, if you don't want to talk to me, I won't.
But then they get all confused when I get up an leave. :nope:
yeah that is just repulsive, most I will do is press the button to make it stop ringing,
Anyone who knows me just texts me what they want anyways, I rarely even take real calls anymore.
Jimbuna
07-19-13, 04:26 PM
Certainly prefer texts....a lot easier to ignore.
Just watched this on You Tube and thought it rather apt. I know some people that are just like this.:yep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf8y4x9nT94
I have known a few that would fit fine.
I personally feel sorry for them, slaved by their phone.
Markus
Please DO THIS next time someone start to either talk or texting when you are talking to them- just turn around and walk away as Platapus wrote earlier.
I have done this before and the response?
They got angry and said that I need to learn how to behave.
Markus
It might be fun to barrage such a person with questions.
"Who's that you're talking to?"
"What did he say?"
"What did you just say?" (when they're texting)
If you know the person he's talking to then you can start giving questions or comments for him to retransmit: "That's John you're talking to? Tell him to give me a call tomorrow".
Platapus
07-19-13, 08:33 PM
They got angry and said that I need to learn how to behave.
Markus
Yeah THEY get angry and YOU are the rude one. :nope:
But that's the reaction I get.
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