What is it about cell phones that people seem as they can't live with out them? I can't help be amused
by seeing people walking around talking on their phone as if it's something important. But something
I saw while at the park chillin made me wonder about how this obession with cellphones may effect
your relationship with your love ones. I saw this guy at the park with his wife and kids, and while this
was suppose to be his quality time with his family,he was talking on his phone most of the time. I thought it
sad that he would fing talking to his homey moreimportant this spending this time playing with his kids or talking
with his wife. Personally if it was me I would be upset if my mate did this. I was wondering how many of you
feel this way or have this problem with your mate talking on their cell phone all the time when you are together? Not
only was this guy cheating his children out of quality time with him he was cheating himself of time with them. And because sometime both parent work,it's that much more important to make the
time you spend with your kids good quality time.
Another thing I see is people on their lunch break rushing to lunch and talking when they should be taking this
time to relax and forget about the rat race for a minute. Is it any wonder that people are so stressed out?
I would like some feed back on this.

I So agree with both of you.

I have friends come visit me at home and maybe take 3 or 4 calls on their phone. I think it so bad mannered and ignorant.

After the recent holiday a male friend rang me most indignant that he couldn;t reach me over the Easter break. I reminded him of those good ole days before mobile phones existed. The days when you left the house it meant you could not be reached.

And in the dating game all this constant text messaging makes two people far too accesible to each other from day one. No mystery in that! And then often these messages get wrongly interpreted and someone gets the hump thinking you meant something that you didn;t. confused2

I work in my little Healing sanctuary every day and sometimes in the middle of giving someone a Treatment their phone will go off. I;ve had clients tell me prior to a Treatment that they;re expecting an important call!! No way...now all phones have to be switched off prior to entering the room.

I Love visiting my Sister cos she lives facing the ocean. No mobile phones will work in her area. BLISS.

I feel you both on this topic. Before I got my cell phone, I had to be thoroughly convinced that it would bea good idea to have one, LOL! I'm very old school, so having one just was never in my thought process. I feel if you want to talk to me you can wait til I get home, not catch me when I'm in my car, out to dinner or spending time with my family. But my circumstances changed being I'm on the road a lot, so forsafetyand personal reasons, I now have one, otherwise I'd still be communicating the old way. By the way, I used to view call waiting,voice mailand all that other stuff in a similar way, ha!, ha!, ha! I was like this, If i'm on the line when you call,try again later especially if it's not important.confused3blkphonecallblkbrukteet

@Ashanti

I was recently in the car with my best friend. She took a call while driving from her ex who she took a long time to get over. The call was highly distressing to her and I was very anxious of her driving concentration. I know the law has now banned driving and talking without a hands free set but people still do. Its scarey and very dangerous.

Its like there is a Global obsession with communication via phone...Internet but in reality there is a bad decrease in the amount of Real Communicating with each other soul to soul.

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@Ashanti

So true! And to think that once Man had the ability to pass messages to each other on walkabout via the trees ie Aborigines etc. Thats how powerful we can be in our natural environment. niceone.gif

mobile phones, definately an epidemic in our community
I remeber I was outside my house and I see a black cyclist swaying from one soide to the other because he had one hand on his mobile

This one killed it thouggh. I was in New X near a traffic lights and this guy in a bmw was waiting to come out of a grage so I stopped for him. The area was really crowded so he needed to pull offf some schumacher moves to move away properly. What haoppens, The phone rings, instead of him to tell the person to fone back he there on his fone trying to stear with one hand when there was very little space. He almost crashed. Well done mate!

i love my mobile. it has come in handy so much so over the years. i got my first phone when at college and it was so not stylish but ok for the time it was there. i went from a mr1 mr2 than nokia 501 etc. got two phones now but only because one is contract and one is payg. soon i will only be using one of them.

one thing i must say i like the fact that only selcted people can have my home phone number whereas others get the mobile. mobiles are just useful. its like what would we do with areoplanes stick to boats 2-3 week trips of seasickness or 1 day of bearable motion sickness. modern living hey

@Ladyday

Yes its like everything in life....ok in moderation.

I agree mobiles have convenient uses. Its good for any lady driver to have a phone in the car.

My friend was stuck on the hard shoulder of the motorway in a snow blizzard. As she was talking to me on her phone a man ahead got out his car and walked towards her. I advised her to lock the doors and make it obvious she is on the phone to the police. He knocked on her window and seemed odd so she shouted to him she was talking to the police. He got back in his car and that was that. So yes good she had that phone.

But when it comes to spending quality time with friends and family I think its rude to keep using the phone. It makes people not feel valued and listened to when you take calls or text in their company. They;re not gonna voice it but people dont like it.

Mine is on when I;m at home and on Internet, and in case my daughters school needs me. Apart from that I enjoy being unavailable most of the time.

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@All

Mobiles are a pain in the butt, but they do prove to be a neccessity at times. Like Locsgirl said I think we the people who afterall control these devices to show manners at times. So if you are going out for a meal turn it off or silence it .....we just need to show thoughtfulness at times with THOSE DAMN THINGS!!!!blkheadbang

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@ BlackBeauty

I agree entirely, because that seems to be the only way you would ever get them off the damn thing.
Mind you the image conjured up by the thought of surgical removal no way compares with the image conjured up by the thought of you crushing your boy friend's mobile under your 'knee high' boots.
Oh sorry almost forgot....this is about mobile phone obsession!

I feel for the youngsters more than anyone because they are losing the art of conversing face-to-face. I am amazed when I see a couple of teenagers walking down the road with one or both of them chatting incessantly into their mobile phone. But off the phone not a word to each other - go figure!

Respect

blktypeI like mobile phones too, like ladydaythey are just the latest modern day stuff we have.

blktypeBut paradoxically it is just one of the long line of modern stuff that IF I could get rid of, thenIwould, and like locsgirlwould quite happily go back to more earthly ways of communicating and living.

Fernando - You miss your mobile when you turn it off during SEX?????

something ain't right there!!

Anyway - I love my mobile too! And when i don't have it, i feel cut off from the world. Its weird, I didn't think I needed one, until i got one in my second year of Uni, now i can't live without it. And my worst fear is losing that thing - too many numbers! I should just go and buy a phonebook and transfer them, i know!

But i agree if you are with someone, you shouldn't chat on your phone for the entire time! Its out of order!

Anyway, my thing is what is the obsession with getting the latest mobile phone model? Its crazy!I've had my phone for about 2 years, and i will keep it, until a phone comes out that can make me breakfast in bed!