Dr. Venkman wrote:I do however resent the culture of rudeness that the device seems to breed.

I am definitely with you 100% on that one...

Arson Smith wrote:

Dr. Venkman wrote:I do however resent the culture of rudeness that the device seems to breed.

I am definitely with you 100% on that one...

On top of that, I dislike the corporate ideal of Constant ReachabilityTM that they have become part of, Spackberries being a recent great leap forward. I used to work in an environment in which after a certain level, you were strongly advised to get a company Blackberry; in the lifts in the morning, you would see stressed young executives nervously browsing their latest emails. Which struck me as utterly absurd, given that they would have booted up their laptops within five minutes.

I had a workaholic work friend whom a mutal friend photographed checking his Blackberry on the Great Wall of China when he thought no-one was looking. I foresee future developments including a HUD implanted in one's eyeballs, providing web access, instant email, CNN, and a never-ending ticker-tape stream of share prices, commodity prices, exchange rates, Listed Company announcements and technical updates.

I use my mobile phone fairly often due to a lack of landline, and have no problem leaving it at home. Send me a pigeon, you bastards!

It's Goddamn liberating is what it is.

I always try to have it on me, not because I always want to be reached (and if I don't, the answer is simple--I don't goddamn answer it), but because it's goddamn handy in event of shit happening, such as traveling to a new city and getting lost, and being able to call for directions from the car instead of pulling over to look for a pay phone in Crackton and oh shit, I only have 45 cents so I need to also find an ATM to get a 20 and then buy something. And this past winter when I slid off the road into a snowy ditch and was able to call my supe and tell him I wasn't going to be in until I got towed the hell up out of there. I don't receive that many calls anyway, so it's not I'm liberating myself from much by not having it on me.

Though I do often let it die and not recharge it for like three days. And then I recharge it and I don't have any calls anyway.

I tend to treat my mobile phone like a land line and not use it outside of our apartment/property. I usually forget it at home when I leave and if I do throw it in my purse or bag, it's because I know that I will probably need it to make or receive a call with it while I'm out. For instance, my car battery died the other night and I had to drive around Alameda for a spell after charging it. I took my phone with me because it would suck to find myself 5 miles from home without a phone and with car problems.

I had any feature on my phone that is not involved in dialing a number and talking to someone on the other end of the line removed/blocked from my plan. If there is one thing that I absolutely detest above all other annoying cell phone user behaviour, it is text messaging.

I have one year left on my contract. If I can find a non-mobile plan that's cheaper or nearly comparable to my Sprint service plan for long-distance coverage, etc., I'll probably cancel my cellular phone service and return to the way of the land line. Unfortunately, the cellular plan is probably a better deal for me as a foreigner in the Californialand, since I mostly use my phone to talk to my parents in Wisconsin.

I don't quite understand how turning your phone off, not answering it, or not bringing it with you is odd enough an action to warrant a C/NC.

Mandroid2.0 wrote:I don't quite understand how not bringing it with you is odd enough an action to warrant a C/NC.

I never said anything about it being odd.

If I don't return messages promptly my family and work will start to jump to conclusions like I'm dead, in jail, hung over, dangerously depressed, not paying my phone bill...

When I forget my phone and don't get around to returning calls for awhile no one believes I really forgot my phone.

I miss just having a land line and checking my answering machine once a day.

NOT CRAP