Sarah81
Jan 29 2006, 03:05 AM
Being able to stay in touch is great, but only on my terms. When I leave my apartment to go to classes, or someplace else on campus, I leave my cell phone in my apartment. Why? Because if I'm going to sit in a classroom for an hour, which I'm paying to do, then I don't want people bothering me with text messages, pointless phone calls or other stupid stuff like that. And if I do take the phone with me, I make friends with the "off" button. That's probably my favorite feature, hehe. I like being completely unavailable. That's the whole point of going out and doing things away from my apartment. That's why I go off by myself and ride my bike, hang out in the library, etc. I don't like being available 24 hours a day. But I think I'm the only one on this entire campus who feels that way. I watch fellow students send text messages back and forth the entire class meeting. Or, they grab their phones to call their friends the second class gets out. They've only been out of touch for 50 minutes, but they're going through some sort of withdrawal symptoms or something. How did these people manage to live before cell phones became affordable? I understand that some people need to be available. Some employees need to be on call. Or people have children, and like to be available in case one of them becomes sick and needs to be picked up from school. But these situations are different. The college kids are just addicted to the stupid phones. My biggest question, though, is about the cell phone technology. Why do we need miniature iPods in our wireless phones when we already have portable MP3 players that are a) cheaper than the phone and  capable of holding a lot more songs? Why do we need to browse the Internet on screens roughly the widths of our thumbs? And why, I must ask, do we have to take low-quality photos of pointless junk with these phones and immediately send these images to every friend we have? So. Yes, I hate cell phones. I appreciate the very basic point of them (being able to make and receive calls as long as I have a decent signal). Beyond that, I don't care.
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Vicious_AD
Jan 29 2006, 03:35 AM
What really grinds my gears, is when elementary school kids have cell phones. What in dante's inferno does a fifth grader need with any form of telecommunication?!? Granted, their parents may give it to them in case they are stuck somewhere and for safety purposes, but too often these days, they also have Ipods! This perplexes me beyond belief. Here's a simple little equation to show just how litttle sense this makes: 4'th grader's music collection?barbie songs and maybe their older sibling's leftovers ipod?1gig What is done with the other 200 dollars of space? Absolutely nothing, my friends. In my day (although I'm only a highschool student) all kids really neded was a stick to beat eachother with and maybe a ball or something. Now, somone who can barely even spell pentium has the latest in micro technology sitting in their scooby doo lunchbox. Why is this? flip phones? what, so that the kid can take pics with it of his butt and of poo he finds on the sidewalk? text messaging? what, so the kid can type in 5318008 and turn the screen upside down? (you may remember this from the days of second grade with calculators, especially if you're a boy. hee hee) geh... I've ranted too much. Ya see what you did Sarah81? lol
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poy
Jan 29 2006, 03:39 AM
I need my phone, my contract expired and now i'm hunting in Toronto for the best deal possible because my old V300 well lets just say RIP. =P But yea I just became so attached to it, that i don't leave any room without it. I don't know its just become a thing of mine. Though i do agree with kids in elementary school not need to have one of those. Pointless! Mainly for cool factor i guess you can say. Lately i feel naked because i don't have a cellphone working at all =( But still carry my disconnected phone as for my phone book. I just noticed how much quarters i'm throwing into the pay phones everyday... ARG!
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miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG
Jan 29 2006, 06:09 AM
Aaah finally someone after my own heart. Even I do like to go totally incommunicado at times. I even let my cell phone lie around at times allowing the battery to run dry. Sometimes I chuck it below the bed and forget all about it... More often that not I leave it at odd places inside the house.. Believe me or not - once I even found it inside the FREEZER (after two days of hunting) 
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HellFire121
Jan 29 2006, 06:52 AM
Lol, the freezer what was it doing in there....
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inconnu
Jan 29 2006, 10:31 AM
I guess Marilyn Monroe's dying message with her phone handset in her hands was that sooner or later mankind is to be born with cell phones. Here in my country, over 95% of high school students (typically ages 16-18), and 60%+ of junior high's (ages 13-15) are cell phone owners. Cell phone operators are starting extremely heavy campaigns to lock in low grade elementary school kids (ages 7 to 9) and aged people over 60-65, since these are the bands with least posession rates. (One third [1/3] of the latter half of elementary school kids at ages 10-12 already have theri own.) Me? Well, I guess I belong to some generation completely forgotton by those phone operators --- like it or not, you're going to be obligated to carry one 100% on, all the time. Wish the airpline companies will do away with their in-flight phones and internet services.... they used to be the only place you are peace in quiet.
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yordan
Jan 29 2006, 02:33 PM
I simply have no cell phone yet. However, when I attend a meeting, or while I am teaching some students, I expect them to purely powerdown they own cell phones during the hour of my class. I don't name that technology things, I simply name that politeness. If what I am teaching is important for you, please no phone calls. Pople who don't need what I am teaching should simply stay home.
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techocian
Jan 29 2006, 03:50 PM
These days, text messaging are way much more common among teenagers than just plain "calling". I have no idea whats so cool about it (Even though I'm a teen myself  ) and who wants to spend 10 minutes "typing" up some stupid message (like 5318008  ) to friends and send them off like 10 cents at a time when you can invite everyone over and have a good laugh over jokes that would cost nothing. Back when i was in Primary school (or elementary) no one had any communications devices and i guess it was the start of the "hotmail"-fluenza because everyone was basically hooked up to Runescape and hotmails. There was no need for cell phones even though they were already out. Today, i see kindergardeners carrying little cells themselves. Those advertisements that actually try to target parents who don't want their kids to hold real cells NEVER work and the company knows that. Firstly, the phones are expensive, and secondly which teenager would willingly take the cell phone that restricts them so much they can't add people into their phone book these days? They'll be the laughing stock of the school! As Sarah had said, today, everyone is always available 24 hours. My friends away messages on AIM always have something similar to "Out, cell me @770-bla-bla". Cell phones are taking over the world and sooner or later in the near future everyone would have a little chip in their brains enabling them to IM anyone in the Earth. 
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Sarah81
Jan 29 2006, 08:42 PM
Here's an interesting bit that I just found. Apparently the Guiness Book of World Records has a category for fastest text message typing - with a standardized message that the would-be record holders have to type, without predictive text or other aids. Strange. Sad. True.
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Jeigh
Jan 29 2006, 11:26 PM
Personally I only use my cell much on weekends so I can find people/they can find me for when we are going out, but during the week its off most of the time and I just use it to make calls, rarely to receive them. Then again I'm not a social butterfly either way so that might contribute to that. On a side note about the text messaging being almost more popular now... isn't it weird that we went from having the tech to send text (letters) to the tech to send voices (phone) and then it seemed amazing to revert to a different way of sending text? which for all intents and purposes is inferior as far as normal conversations go... just something I've always found kinda funny.
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yordan
Nov 5 2009, 10:38 PM
QUOTE (michellezum @ Nov 5 2009, 11:07 PM)  If So $150 per month m That could be another interesting topic, but let's ask the question here. You talk about $150 per month. I pay $25 for two months. Of course I almost don't use my phone, and I send rather few SMS's. However, it's 12 times less than the amount you are talking about. So, let's ask : how much do you pay for using your cellphone ?
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michellezum
Nov 5 2009, 10:07 PM
If you stop and think about how much money you spend on cell phones, it's a bit rediculous. And what are you really paying for? I think partially we're paying for the privilage of being "up to date". So $150 per month means I can text and recieve texts (because your friends will think you're lame if you can't text or be texted). It means that when someone can't get a hold of me, they get even more upset becasue "why do you even have a cell phone if you don't answer it!" ... I get that a lot. It means that with internet, games and apps my kids will always have their eyes glued to a screen (there's no escape from TV, or games, or the internet!) That also means less quality family time and less communication. Yes, I think cell phones have up sides too, but maybe we were better off without them. Michelle Z.
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Eggie
Aug 26 2009, 03:19 PM
Hmm...two weeks ago i broke 2 cellphones in 3 days... first one(nokia 5310(i think) xpress music)-I was going to show my friend a picture which was on my mobile...i threw it at him and he caught it, after he looked at it,i told him to throw it at me which he refused to do,after that i told him again to throw it to me,second time he did it and i was going to catch t with one hand...you can guess what happened-it fell out of my hands,fell on a leg of a table.i picked it up and i saw my screen was pictureless.(50$ for repair) second one-i bought nokia n73 to replace the xpress one which was on repair,and cause after all my battery didn't hold as much as i wanted it to.i had it for few hours and saw that software was very very old.i wanted to flash (update) it but i didn't have the cable.i went to my friends house and got it.i saw that the cable connection with cell phone was very bad,but i didn't care(i knew that if the connection fails during the installation of new firmware,cell phone can be ruined)...again,you can just imagine what happened...during flashing process,connection broke,so did my phone... Learn from my mistakes-Don't catch cell's with one hand, and don't flash your firmware with bad cable,after all just don't do it on your own...go to a store and make them do it for some money
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iGuest
Jul 24 2009, 07:40 AM
Rock on, Luddites!
I Hate Cell Phones
This thread was very pleasurable to read. Cell phones ****. You don't need one, you just think you do because everyone else has one. But it's precisely because everyone else has a cell phone that you shouldn't get one. Allow me to explain.
The most solid argument to have cell phones has something to do with emergencies. "But whatever will you do if...", the argument usually begins. Here's what you do if you're experiencing an "emergency": find the nearest person to you who undoubtedly has a cell phone, explain that you're having an emergency, and ask to borrow their phone. This method never fails unless you didn't sound earnest enough, so you might have to "sell it" a little. Then, you make that long distance call to grandma to wish her happy birthday and graciously thank the total stranger who let you borrow their phone. Shoot, we all know how to communicate here, so use your powers.
After all, unless you live in an incredibly rural area, when will you ever be in a situation where there isn't a cell phone-carrying person nearby? What do you, solo up K2 on the weekends or something?
Cell phones are also monuments to planned obsolescence and corporate antitrust. The minute you buy one, they release the next better thing you'll absolutely have to have. This sucks, so don't ever buy one. Plus, have you ever seen a cell phone that has all the features you want? Will they ever until about 2050? Then, by 2051, the 2050 models will still be too slow. As far as antitrust is concerned, the Feds need to be investigating the whole iPhone/AT&T relationship big time. My wife has that plan, it's completely overpriced, and why should you have to patronize AT&T just because you want a phone with some of the best features out there? I've been boycotting AT&T since the mid-1990's when their CEO gave himself a $20M pay raise during the same quarter that he laid off 20,000 of his workers. Now I have to boycott Apple, too. (But who cares, really--if it weren't for the iPhone and iPod all they're about is overpriced and underperforming computers that people who like to give money away swear by because of some kind of strange religious brainwashing that began in the early 1980's.)
The longitudinal study results about the link between cell phone-created EM radiation and brain cancer haven't been released yet, because the study isn't over yet. Last I heard, the lead researcher up at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. Mandated that his crew all use hands-free devices, all the time, because he's so scared about what he's seen so far. Mmmmmm. Brain cancer. Can my tumors get updates, just like my apps?
By the way, will they ever make a cell phone with features that can actually be used because there are buttons on it sized for adult human fingers, rather than the long and pointy fingers of Lilliputian, crowd-following troglodytes? The Jitterbug doesn't count. You get absolutely nothing with that ripoff plan. Companies love stealing from old people.
Finally, never forget one of the most important anthropological universals: every solution has inherent in its own design a unique set of problems that will have to be dealt with. Now we're dealing with no free time, bosses who can call you at any time of day or night, and a colossal glut of largely useless information...And we wantonly pay for all of this with our hard-earned money? Are we a nation of complete idiots? Let's face the music, here: unless you're Barack Obama, the CEO of a multinational corporation (who needs constant, verbal feedback on how efficiently you're destroying the earth so you can do it better and better), an on-call medical doctor, or their close cousin the drug dealer, you simply aren't important enough to really need a cell phone. Is your monthly fee really worth the imperceptibly minor inflation of your pretend importance that having a cell phone will provide?
So, I say to you, dear conscientious people who are iconoclastic enough to think for yourselves, don't break down! Resist! Use every cell of your mortal being to remain focused on the important things in life! Revel in having a brain! Rock on! -reply by Christopher C.
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iGuest
May 29 2009, 04:59 PM
Fully Agreed.
I Hate Cell Phones
Cell phones, and the culture that surrounds them, **** without question. With, of course, the exception of carrying one in your car in case you break down. But no one needs all of the useless crappy features that come with cell phones nowadays. I, for one, cannot see myself constantly connected to people. Let alone see myself in a "24 hour workday" situation where I am under the gun even when I'm off the clock.
My cell phone is right where it belongs: Off, with the battery out, in my glove compartment. Why's the battery out? Because I don't like the idea of my phone sending out a GPS signal without my knowledge. I have the ultimate GPS system in my car anyhow: My compass. But that's a different rant entirely.
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