I went a couple weeks without my phone and I just fixed it the other day....now I'm realizing that I was better off when I didn't have the fucking thing! Anyone else feel this way??
*cue No Doubt Spiderwebs*





I went a couple weeks without my phone and I just fixed it the other day....now I'm realizing that I was better off when I didn't have the fucking thing! Anyone else feel this way??
*cue No Doubt Spiderwebs*





Yes!! I hate calling people back, and I always get anxiety when I see a new Voicemail. My parents' pay for my phone so they can keep in touch with me, because if they didn't pay for it, I definantly wouldn't. The only thing I like my phone for is the alarm.
P.S. Zinaida, I wish I had your boobies!! I'm dying to get some huge ones; I just need to come up with the $$, hehe.





I dont like having a cell phone at all..would love to go back to having a regular house phone. If you call and I dont answer, it means Im busy or out living life...point blank. Not liking the having to be readily accessible to any and everyone at all times thing... If someone calls and I dont pick up or get right back to them, they are annoyed with me...like, dang, I do stuffs! Leave me alone! lol
Okay, Im not really that busy, I just dont like being on the phone.
Just because I have a phone does not mean I am obligated to answer it if I don't feel like it. If my friends don't like it, that's tough.
I let about 70% of my calls go to voicemail and I answer them when I have the time, on my schedule. I use my phone for e-mail and internet and text - much more important to me.



Its so true ..You know so many of us have let Cell phones invade our lives ..Really , How did the world carry on when we did not have them ? It wasn't that long ago you know .
When Im O/Seas .. I just grab a local SIM , text the number to just a few phone . And leave the other SIM right out of the phone ..when I get back , maybe 70 messages ..and guess what ? probably 60 are B/S .
We all like to think we HAVE to be contacted ..Iphones have made it worse with the e-mail element ..It really is bullshit .... I have managed to reject the idea of an Iphone to this point ....I think Im the only one in our office ..
Did you get my e-mail ? " No " .... But I sent it 3 hours ago ?? Yeah ..did you ? No I didn't get it ...I dont say why !
We should all take a break from these Dam phones , and not let them rule and control our lives .![]()
Enjoy ... and Progress , Its all in the name of personal enjoyment
I haven't had a phone since November of last year. It's liberating. Trying to go back to making actual HUMAN connections with people which means no social networking (outside of business) and if someone wants to talk to me at length, they should do it while we're both in the same room. Haven't had any problems with it thus far.
I do have a Google Voice number set up through the laptop to call my husband when he's out and about though in case of emergency. His job requires him to have a phone and it rings rings rings rings rings because the people he works with can't take care of themselves without his input. That's what I see as the downside to technology. It's making everyone less and less self-efficient and...lazy.





I haven't had a phone in over a year....it's been great!
However, I do wish I now had a land line just because I have 2 kids and (god forbid) if anything were to happen, I have no way to call. I think I can use my old phones though to dial 911 if an emergency were to ever happen though.
I just use my IPOD to text my husband...that's it. Everything else is through FB. I REALLLLLYYYYYYYYYYY REALLLLYYY REALLLLLY hate talking on the phone. Texting is fine...just hate conversations on the phone.
(I'm just THAT anti social that even phone conversations give me anxiety.)
I have no problem conversing through texts, fb, whatever...and mostly because I can just log off whenever I'm done. If I have nothing to say I can just type "lol"...but in conversation, when I have nothing to say, there's just awkward silence..or whatever else.
Even on cam, I don't turn my mic on...
People give me their numbers and tell me to call them, but for what? I have no desire to sit and have a conversation about (usually nothing) on the phone.
Once in awhile, I'll talk to my mom on my husband's phone, but that's it.
Hate even calling to make DR appointments.
(Getting anxiety because I have to call my producer....phew...just gotta do it like a band aid...RIIIIGHTTTT offffff...except, it's usually a reallly long conversation.)![]()
Working in IT you have to embrace technology or be left by the wayside with outdated skills, but I understand the nostalgia for simpler times or just having some personal time every once and awhile. Just gota try to balance your life rather than totally disconnecting or being glued to information and people 24/7.
BOTM - what version of the iPhone do you use?





My last day in the Army I threw my phone away at 1600 hours. I was officially 'off" and I did not need to wear the "Leash" anymore.
A few years later and I have a cell phone again. I don't like talking on the phone........
Coffee, Tea, Beer, or Shots........ Over anything, because there are nuances to conversation that do not confer electronically.
For instance if I was using a dating site, the phone would be to confirm a meeting,not as an interview before a meeting. A person will learn so much more face to face about another.
Generally speaking Men do not use the phone as women do. The phone for Men confers information not a as a "way to keep us together".
So yes for a period of Three years my relationships were better. Well Ok the day to day close one were. Friends and Family at long distance were a little put out ...
However the People that saw me everyday, that I "clicked" with and wanted to see every day. They new I didn't have a cell and we made plans to do things.
Thats right Cell phones allow people to do things spontaneously but, without them you "talk" to your friends and even get this "Listen" to your friends.
So while one may be less spontaneous, the relationships you choose to cultivate are "deeper".














I can read a map... I'm the only one in my family that can read a map..
But to the thread. I have a phone but only use once every four.. five months.. I have a cheap one that doesn't take pictures or do emails. Only calls and text. I have a old used computer. I never buy myself a new one cause I always have a friend that buys the newest computer and gives me the old one. I hand sew my clothes, I use a hand saw to cut things, I carve by hand. I do have a dremel but I don't use it much, and a drill that I do use.
I know a real compass always points to the "magnetic" north pole (which is located close to but not exactly what most people think of as the North Pole).





I cant read a map to save my life... When I was in the Army and during training we were split up with our battle buddies and given a compass and topographic map to get from one point to our assigned designated spots.
My entire unit was shocked to see the two of us actually made it in. We were the last ones in with moments to spare...but be damned, we made it. Lucky we're still not wandering around a forest in NC right now, living off of twigs and berries.
One thing I absolutely do though is memorize the phone number of my bf. Cant remember the number of any of my friends and family *argh!* but I know my ex's number by heart..and if anything at all were to happen to me, I could rattle it off or dial it without thinking. I made kiddo memorize mine and his too. And I made him memorize mine...this after we broke up. I was so angry he didnt know my number "what if youre dying in a ditch! how can you tell someone to call me to come and get you!" Instead of trying to rationalize and argue over how ridiculous that sounded, he just went ahead and memorized my number.
Id dependent on technology though, for sure...but the phone itself? Ehhhhhhhh...





How does a smart phone decrease decision making? I see it as a tool; you can either use it to annoy everyone around you or do some very useful things with it. Some people seem to forget the later part though.
Let me simply quote a review of the book Future Shock, which by the way is an excellent read related to this top--
Book was written in 1970.Toffler marshalls a virtual mountain of evidence illustrating his claim of a rising flood of techniological, social, and economic change, largely emanating from the increasing influence of science and technology into every area of contemporary life.
Toffler's main concern is with the recognition that while a human being's capacity to adjust physically, psychologically, and socially to this torrent of change is finite and quite limited, the pace of change is increasing and expanding into more and more areas of individuals' lives. Moreover, no one is asking for these profound and endless changes; they stem more from the economic impulses of the marketplace than from any kind of consumer demand, and perhaps we should be asking to what extent this flood of innovations actually enhances our lives, and personal convenience associated with all these innovations and technological improvements are worth the social, economic, and political change that follows in its wake.
The term "future shock" refers to what happens when people are no longer able to cope with the pace of change. All sorts of symptoms and maladies results, ranging from depression to bizarre behavior to increases in susceptability to disease to absolute emotional breakdown. Thus, Toffler accurately anticipated many of the sorts of psychological, social, and economic maldies and turbulence of the last thirty years. Yet, to date literally no one seems to pay much heed to his thesis, or to ask what it means for the quality of life in our own futures. This is an important book raising critical and fundamental questions about the social, economic, and political impacts of technologically-induced innovations within contemporary society and the way they are flooding uncontested and unhampered into our social environment. This is a must-read for any serious student of social science.



Well .... It sorta can answer back BOTM ..BUT you can turn the sucker on and off as you need it ...and no messy divorce , so It probably aint a bad game plan ! lol lol
Also .... It has the capacity to answer any question you put to it ..plus it Vibrates ..
A match made in Heaven .![]()
Enjoy ... and Progress , Its all in the name of personal enjoyment










i lost my phone in vegas and didnt even care! i went on a work spree that paid off very well for a whole month...without my phone. once i got it, i was bummed out by all the incoming text. stressful.
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