 I Hate Cell Phones, Being unavailable rules |
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 Jan 29 2006, 11:50 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 107 Joined: 24-September 05 Member No.: 8,667  |
I have my phone supplied by my employer, and only use it during working hours.
The worst thing about them is how people use them wherever they are, showing no consideration for others. Eating out is now akin to eating in a phone boooth, you cannot watch a film without phones ringing, and as for using public transport......... Personally, I think they should be banned in all public places, like smoking. |
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Jan 30 2006, 04:52 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 493 Joined: 15-August 05 Member No.: 7,873 |
I have a sprint, cell, pda, telnet terminal, and food dehydrator all in one phones at work. I let my personal phone contract laps last year. I hate the damn thing. Why? Because now if something goes wrong at work or after hours, it is a quick call to me. On weekends, I often leave the thing in my car or at home. And the number of calls I get sometimes for trivial things liketoday one of the production teams was working on a film project and FCP crashed taking an hour or two worth of work with it. I was in Church and left the phone in my car. They left me like 15 messages in a hour both text, email, and voice.
Finally called them back and got the: "FCP Crashed and took two hours of work with it?" whiny crap. ME: "Did you have Autosave on?" |
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Jan 30 2006, 01:06 PM
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Member [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 51 Joined: 16-January 06 Member No.: 10,735 |
I love my cell phone. I would never even dream of leaving the house without it and it comes in handy so much I can't believe it. Anytime a friend wants to go out they can call me, anytime work wants to offer me work they can call me.
It's fantastic and especially with sms's they make communications over long distances whilst on the move immeasurably easier. |
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Jan 30 2006, 03:10 PM
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Member - Active Contributor Group: Members Posts: 98 Joined: 27-January 06 Member No.: 10,907 |
Sarah... I'm Forced to agree with u . But in my case i need to be 24/7 availlble.
But one thing u can be sure about it.. i HATE LAME Phone Calls . At first i actually liked it but time to time its been more bored with this kind of comunication. ( i'm talking about the first cell phone i had ) . I changed a lot of cell numbers, but this kind of things didn't stop happening. So u ask what i did .. I bougth my last card number ( just because i bougth a new cell phone about 6 years - here each new cell phone brings a new card ) and i WARNED all my friends that if they didnt stop ringing once, just like to say "hello , i'm alive", i'll permenant erase them from my phone list blocking them with my network operator, even told my girl friend that this kind of RING ONCE system was killing me and TO HER AND ALL my Friends STOP with THIS LAME THING. Already passed 7 years and I NEVER received a call like that . End of Story. 
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 Jan 30 2006, 10:54 PM
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Newbie [ Level 1 ] Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 30-January 06 Member No.: 10,982 |
QUOTE(Sarah81 @ Jan 28 2006, 10:05 PM) 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.  You could always just buy one and turn it on only when you know you want to be called... 
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Jan 31 2006, 12:15 PM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :)  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,186 Joined: 16-August 05 Member No.: 7,896 myCENTs:57.74 |
QUOTE You could always just buy one and turn it on only when you know you want to be called... That's what my wife does. Unfortunately, I know very few people able to do that, buyng a cell phone, paying every month for that, and not using it because most of time you don't really need it. |
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Jan 31 2006, 04:30 PM
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Whitest Black Mage Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,371 Joined: 20-May 05 From: NB, Canada Member No.: 5,281 myCENTs:65.99 |
Depends what you mean by 'need'. 9 times out of 10 its just a conveinience item. There are payphones in most public places, and if you're out at a friends or whatnot you can always use their phone. The only time its actually a necessity is if you need to make a call on the road or whatever, in which case your wife would still be able to use it for that purpose.
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Feb 1 2006, 06:29 AM
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Premium Member  Group: Banned Posts: 213 Joined: 2-July 05 Member No.: 6,781 |
I usually don't care much about my cell phone. It's either in my backpak, or in my desk. I'm not even sure why I need one anymore. People can just call my house phone and that will be that, but there might be emergencies that I have to make a quick call in the middle of no where... which happened once before and I won't forget the trouble I went through to finally reach a pay phone >_<
I don't know... it's like insurance to me, it's worthless unless something big happens. I waste lots of money on iinsurance, like most of us do, and think an accident is likely to happen so we buy it. It's money being wasted like this you can't seem to do anything much about. Why can't they lower our cell phone charges to like... 10 dollars... for those who dont' even use it often? I want that plan >_< </rant> |
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Feb 1 2006, 11:34 AM
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Way Out Of Control - You need a life :) Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 2,186 Joined: 16-August 05 Member No.: 7,896 myCENTs:57.74 |
QUOTE I won't forget the trouble I went through to finally reach a pay phone Yes, now there are rather few pay phones available, precisely because almost everyone has a cell phone. |
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Feb 1 2006, 05:50 PM
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Newbie [ Level 2 ] Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 1-February 06 Member No.: 11,015 |
I’d really like to know what the big todo is about having a cellphone. I don’t have one and I manage just fine, but people that find out I don’t have one treat me like I’m some kind of idiot or from the backwoods. I was at my sister’s house on vacation last year and needed to call my husband and she wouldn’t let me use the regular phone, told me I had to use her cell phone for the free minutes, and I couldn’t even figure out how to turn the damned thing on. I really got steamed with her and her friends that were there laughing at me like I was tardo. What should I say to these people without being too rude when I’m faced with this kind of situation?
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