Mobile phone's have altered my perception

[Lee H]

To be able to contact someone without having to actually speak to them is good for me and probably most men

I actually prefer to ring them if I can

[Mama Sumae]

Nasty useful gadgets but i simply hate how anyone at any time can enter in contact with me, keen in my bugger off moments and all this new communication technologies are simply ruining them.

Plus there are the possible long term health consequences

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4163003.stm

Last year a 750-people study by Sweden's Karolinska Institute suggested using a mobile phone for 10 years or more increases the risk of ear tumours by four times.

[Funkstar]

That's a pretty meaningless statistic though isn't it? "...increases the risk of ear tumours by four times." Four times what? if the risk is 1:1,000,000,000 for non-mobile users, then mobile users have a 1:250,000,000. Still pretty insignificant odds. These things need to be put in context.

Also look at it this way: you have to die of something, but you can't die of everything. So don't worry about things like this that are inconclusive and are argued about every few months. Worry about something real... like lions or rampaging elephants

[Guy]

I remember when the first read-illy available PAYG phones from vodafone were introduced, I was in secondary school at the time. And ever since then the age of kids with phones seems to be getting ridiculous now! I wasnt allowed one till I was 14/15!

Now a days ive seen really young kids walking round showing off there phone!

[Zak33]

I'm more worriesd about the person who watches people on their phones from 7 minutes and takes photos of them!

I think mobiles have changed our lives, especially texting. To be able to contact someone without having to actually speak to them is good for me and probably most men. It enables men to distill their phone skills round to a few presses on a keyboard.

be afraid...be very afraid :-)

[666moe666]

When i was in primary no one had mobile phones and when i started secondary everyone had them, they spread like the plague in just a few months.

Currently i walk home from work, usually i get my dad to pick me up but he just had a hernia op, and i have to carry a mobile phone and other gadgets, dunno about anyone else but it does make me feel a bit like a moving target. Especially as my house isnt in a particularily nice neighbourhood.

[htid]

So am I the only one who very rarely uses their mobile? I send maybe 4 texts a month and spend around 5 mins at most per month calling. May just be lack of friends...

[Howard]

Gotta love technology

My new phone (Orange SPV E650) still amazes me with what it's capable of, even though I know the technology's not exactly brand new. Everyone has a phone.. I'm surprised the networks can handle it!

[IBM]

I remember when the first read-illy available PAYG phones from vodafone were introduced, I was in secondary school at the time. And ever since then the age of kids with phones seems to be getting ridiculous now! I wasnt allowed one till I was 14/15!

Now a days ive seen really young kids walking round showing off there phone!

Isn't there a phone available for which you can grant only a select number of contacts? I'd get one for my kids when they're older, but only with the number for immediate family and emergency contacts. Outside of that, they can receive calls, but that's it.....and even then, I'd like to be able to limit the number of incomming calls to certain people. I'd like to know that I'd be able to get in touch with my child in an emergency, but aside from that, it should stay in their bag.

[Guy]

So am I the only one who very rarely uses their mobile? I send maybe 4 texts a month and spend around 5 mins at most per month calling. May just be lack of friends...

lol I do use mine quite alot, with my contract ive got 1000 txts and 500 mins, the mins I rarely go over, but I have at times approached the text limit which is quite worrying!

Isn't there a phone available for which you can grant only a select number of contacts? I'd get one for my kids when they're older, but only with the number for immediate family and emergency contacts. Outside of that, they can receive calls, but that's it.....and even then, I'd like to be able to limit the number of incomming calls to certain people. I'd like to know that I'd be able to get in touch with my child in an emergency, but aside from that, it should stay in their bag.

Im not sure there may well be, I suppose its a good idea so that you could still stay in contact with your children etc, but is it really necessary? I mean 6+ years ago it wasnt? They'd either be at school, at a friends house, or with a parent/family member?

[chicken]

There is, there's a child's phone called a Bunny or something (because it has 2 antennae or "ears") and only has about 3 pre-set quick-dial buttons so they can't call any old number.

Can't remember a huge amount about it but I think it was launched a couple of months back.

[Guy]

There is, there's a child's phone called a Bunny or something (because it has 2 antennae or "ears") and only has about 3 pre-set quick-dial buttons so they can't call any old number.

Can't remember a huge amount about it but I think it was launched a couple of months back.

Ah fair enough.... personally if I did have kids (hopefully not yet that shud be a fair while)
Id probabily say they would have to wait until secondary school/allowed out on there own etc.

[IBM]

Im not sure there may well be, I suppose its a good idea so that you could still stay in contact with your children etc, but is it really necessary? I mean 6+ years ago it wasnt? They'd either be at school, at a friends house, or with a parent/family member?

You don't think people worried about their kids and their whereabouts more than 6 years ago?

[Guy]

You don't think people worried about their kids and their whereabouts more than 6 years ago?

No.... that came out wrong..... of course people would be worried about there kids etc, but I think were too reliant on modern technology.

[Sair33]

Take these "bluetooth" warriors, walking through towns, cities and streets everywhere. They are so wrapped up in their conversations half the time that their spacial awareness goes into the bin and they walk and barge into everyone

....and for that very reason, it does worry me when people use their phones when driving. It's not the holding of a phone thats the problem, its the fact that they concentrate on the conversation, not the road.
...I'm not saying I don't use my phone when driving, but it's hardly suprising that there are accidents....

Gotta love Mr Fry

Indeed

[IBM]

No.... that came out wrong..... of course people would be worried about there kids etc, but I think were too reliant on modern technology.

So you're going to move to a farming compound somewhere in South Dakota, and shun modern civilisation?