can you be without your phone?

Sauve

Reading a book about the effects of 'constantly being contactable'
i.e. phone, email etc.
So just wondering - do you constantly have your phone on you, or do you make a conscious effort to turn it off so you can't be reached?
Do you turn it off when you're asleep?
Do you get anxious and tetchy if it runs out of battery or if you leave it at home?

davyjose

90% of the time I hate being with it!!!

Princess Peach

Yes

Nobody ever contacts me anyway

Latchy

Never get anxious about leaving it at home because mobiles have only being around 20 years or so and despite what some might say , we did quite ok without them . If I leave it on at night it's only because I may be expecting an early morning call ( or wake up ) but yeah I can be without my phone

Heyes

Feel lost when i dont have my phone, but on the other hand its nice no one been able to contact me

Angron

Yeah, these days I'd be lucky to get one text a day anyway.

DOC09UNAM

*Cue people bragging about 1 million friends, and how their life would fall apart without a phone*

Badly Drunk Boy

I can easily do without it. Every now and then, I forget to bring it to work and the only thing that bothers me about it, is that I use it to tell the time too.

I only got my first mobile phone 4 years at the age of 33, and even then, it was foisted upon me as a birthday present. (I used to be a disaster at music festivals when me friends wanted to meet up with me.)

Dr_Phil

I'd love to.

and without a watch too..

El Horseboxo

Yeah and mates hate me because of it. I'm forever leaving my phone in the car. They're always complaining cause they can't get through to me. Mainly cause my house is the one we usually drink in.

Dr_Phil

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Mainly cause my house is the one we usually drink in.

Quality

KeithM89_old

I lost my phone for over a week and nearly got fired over it

Id love to ditch it for while but i hate the feeling of missing out on things

Xiney

I routinely forget about it and get texts 24 hours later than I should have.

Not ideal. I'm going to try harder to keep it on me.

Sea Sharp

I could do without my phone definitely. With the exception of when I'm job hunting, waiting around for calls.
I use Facebook chat and gmail instead of endless, pointless text messages.

biko

Yeah, because without it I can't tell what time it is.

Cheap Thrills!

I'm old enough to remember before mobiles were everyday items. So that was my first normality.

I don't like the idea of always being contactable and I only answer my mobile if it suits me. I am pretty lazy with it and dont mind being without it, it's just other people who give out and make you feel you've done something wrong by not bringing it everywhere/answering it at all times!

I like turning it off going certain places! Its a relief and a guilty pleasure!

I use mine to tell the time as well, I don't like wearing a watch. So in that respect, it would be really annoying.
It's useful as well for emergencies or whatever!
But if I had email I could get by

Flukey

I have mine with me always. It gets turned off when I go to bed. It usually doesn't get turned on again until lunchtime when I am at work. As I have a lie-in on a Saturday it doesn't get turned on until afternoon too. It is usually Sunday lunchtime when it gets turned on too. As a result of it being off for that much time, I get the best part of a week out of my battery.

TimTim

I try avoid bringing a phone where possible.

I hate being contactable like that. Send me an email and I'll get back to you.

OutlawPete

I prefer not having it or just leaving it off ..

.. but people complain like crazy when they can't reach you.


I hate the damn things tbh.

Only good for net access, music and watching vids.

Flight mode ftw.

DOC09UNAM

We get it pete, didn't have to tell us twice :rolleyes:

scientific1982

Princess Peach wrote: »

Yes

Nobody ever contacts me anyway

Gimme you number and I promise ill contact you soon.

OutlawPete

DOC09UNAM wrote: »

We get it pete, didn't have to tell us twice :rolleyes:

Hush you

Sharkey 10

The thing i dont like about mobiles is that everyone expect you to have it on you and be at all times in contact. If you leave your phone at home people might give you grief.
I could happily do without a phone

scientific1982

They're one of the most useful inventions known to man. They also have an off button.

BillShorey

I can certainly be without it, but I don't like to be without it. It's dead handy to have on the go and I can't see any reason to go without it intentionally.

Proxy

I can't remember who said it, but I remember someone comparing a mobile phone to a rude person who interrupts a person and/or conversation without care. I bought a smartphone earlier this year and to be honest, I could do without it. I've become a bit of a facebook addict and also dip into twitter. Both of which I can see the good points of, but are fundamentally useless.

I also found it affecting my concentration in work. Now I put it in a drawer and leave it there until end-of-day or at least lunch. I think my next mobile will be a bog-standard call and text job.

Leelaa22

If i forget my phone, run out credit or my battery dies - I grieve, I honestly feel like Ive lost a limb.
Which I hate and is stupid cause I dont gete contacted that often on it anyway! But ive had one for nrealy half my life. If they became outlawed tomorrow Id be happy.

Carl Sagan

Broke my phone last week. It's just **** not being able to contact people.

DOC09UNAM

OutlawPete wrote: »

Hush you

I don't like your attitude pete.

obliviousgrudge

I actually rarely use my phone for calling or texting, I mainly use it for internet and multimedia like music, photos and video.

I only text or call my family, for my friends, I usually just use Facebook

Dr_Phil

Princess Peach wrote: »

Yes

Nobody ever contacts me anyway

Post it on boards. You'll see the magic.

SIX PACK

I cant live without my phone we have an intimate relationship that goes back many years We even sleep together :cool:

Leelaa22

Dr_Phil wrote: »

Post it on boards. You'll see the magic.

yeah....."magic"
Princess Peach Ill contact you, im faily normal and no one contacts me on my phone too , we can not be contacted together

adamshred

I love having the convenience of a mobile phone, but I hate that it makes me constantly contactable - However, it's nice to just throw the phone on silent and put it out of view for a few hours at a time if I don't want to be contacted.

One thing that boils my blood though is when someone keeps ringing and ringing when the call is completely insignificant and not of any importance, and I don't answer for this very reason. GRR even if I silence the call it's still annoying. Don't know why . . but it just is!

Also, phone occasionally gets turned off at night for a bit of peace.

I could definitely go without a mobile phone, but that'd mean buying a watch The only thing is now, sociality pretty much revolves around being contactable by people, and phones are at the centre of this. So without a phone, it would be increasingly difficult to keep track of friends and what's going on, so I'm not sure if it would be entirely possible to function socially without a phone in this day and age. Even trying to find directions to a place by ringing somone are things that we take for granted by having mobile phones so they ain't all bad :pac:

Asphyxia

I'm grand without it but I like to keep it with in case anything ever happened, my sister on the other hand freaks out when she leaves it at home.

AckwelFoley

i leave my phone at home alot. I dont know where it even is now!

Latchy

snyper wrote: »

i leave my phone at home alot. I dont know where it even is now!

Just like that pedo bear in your sig '' it's behind you , it's behind you ''

epgc3fyqirnbsx

I was just cut off for two weeks and it was great, no annoying phonecalls and you knew when you were relaxing that you could do just that
Probably would have been more panicky a couple of years back but now all I want is 'me' time and lots of it

Nodin

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

Reading a book about the effects of 'constantly being contactable'
i.e. phone, email etc.
So just wondering - do you constantly have your phone on you, or do you make a conscious effort to turn it off so you can't be reached?
Do you turn it off when you're asleep?
Do you get anxious and tetchy if it runs out of battery or if you leave it at home?

I don't have a mobile.

Dunjohn

I've gone days without realising I didn't have my phone on me. Not lately, though, now I automatically check my pockets for phone/wallet/keys before closing the front door behind me. I'm far from addicted, though, it's just convenient to have it. €20 can last me more than a year. My first mobile came with €50 credit and it was four years before I had to top it up. And like a good few people here, nobody ever contacts me on it anyway.

alidxx

i would be completely lost without my phone.. its like an extension of my arm lolh...

Naikon

Yes. A phone is a tracking device after all.

kjl

My phone broke a while back and I was left without a phone for 24 hours, which ended up being the worst 24 hours of my life.

I had to meet people in town in the morning, but had no way of contacting them, so I had to wait in the cold for them just in case I missed them. I left in my car to get a replacement phone from my friend who ends up not showing up in the arranged place because he took it down wrong.

Then coming back from the meeting place, my car breaks down. I am about 10 miles away from civilisation so I start walking towards the nearest pay phone, finally find one on the side of the street only to find out its broken. I have to walk another 5 miles to find the next one. This one works, but guess what I only have enough money for one call.

I decided the best plan is to ring my mum, ring ring, straight to voice mail, money in phone gone.

Finally find a nice person who lets me call someone, then get the tow truck to bring me back to my house. Where I have a million emails from work telling my there is some urgent work to do and they have been trying to contact me all day. course when I tell them my phone is broken the think its like a "dog ate my homework" excuse. End up having to cancel my night out to do the work, I could have done had I received the email earlier.

all in all, a really really **** day.

Fluorescence

I'm kinda ashamed to say it but I feel lost whenever I don't have my phone. It's not that I text or call on it any great amount, but if I lose it or the battery dies and I'm without it for a day I am very much aware of its absence. My phone doubles as my mp3 player as well, so it can be annoying if I'm not able to get around the place in my own private sound world . I'm also kinda paranoid that it'd be the one day I'm without my phone that I'd get an important call about something and I'd have missed it :mad:.

All that said, I'm only 19 so I don't really remember life pre-mobile phones. I shared one with my older brother when we were much younger (it was an 088 cast off of my dad's :pac:), and when I was about 14/15 I got one of my own. Ever since then it's been a part of my life (how sad does that sound? ).

northern lights

kjl wrote: »

My phone broke a while back and I was left without a phone for 24 hours, which ended up being the worst 24 hours of my life.

I had to meet people in town in the morning, but had no way of contacting them, so I had to wait in the cold for them just in case I missed them. I left in my car to get a replacement phone from my friend who ends up not showing up in the arranged place because he took it down wrong.

Then coming back from the meeting place, my car breaks down. I am about 10 miles away from civilisation so I start walking towards the nearest pay phone, finally find one on the side of the street only to find out its broken. I have to walk another 5 miles to find the next one. This one works, but guess what I only have enough money for one call.

I decided the best plan is to ring my mum, ring ring, straight to voice mail, money in phone gone.

Finally find a nice person who lets me call someone, then get the tow truck to bring me back to my house. Where I have a million emails from work telling my there is some urgent work to do and they have been trying to contact me all day. course when I tell them my phone is broken the think its like a "dog ate my homework" excuse. End up having to cancel my night out to do the work, I could have done had I received the email earlier.

all in all, a really really **** day.

Man, that really was a **** day!
I'd a similar experience the one time I forgot my phone at home and never realised until I got to work. Headed home from my late shift with just my uniform and cardi on, driving along merrily with the heating on, so was cosy as toast. Hit a massive pothole and totally fecked my tyre. Limped along till I found a place I could pull in, took a deep breath (as it was January last year and bloody freezing) and headed out to get the spare wheel. Got wheel out eventually, as was working in the dark, torch in boot was dead! Took a further 15mins before I could figure out how to get the jack out
Put jack in place and after much cursing and jumping on wheel brace got the nuts loose but just couldn't get wheel off.
Was frozen with the cold at this point so sat in car wondering how long would it take husband to realise I wasn't home and come looking for me! As he's usually on the couch asleep (bless him ) I wasn't holding out much hope!! After what felt like an eternity, as it's a really quiet country road, a lovely guy stopped to help. Turns out I'd the jack on upside down, oops!
10 mins later and I'm on my way again. All I could think of at this point was getting to centra before it closed for a bottle of wine (purely medicinal of course!).
Got there with 5 mins to spare and galloped in to the wine section. Standing in the queue I was aware of getting really strange looks as my white uniform was now fairly black, my hands were totally black and it was only when I got home and looked in the mirror I realised my face was also fairly grease stained. I looked must have looked quite the professional nurse plus I was clutching my bottle of wine for dear life
Anyhow, to cut a long story short! Myself and my phone have never been parted since. It's on 24hrs a day, as it's my alarm clock, and i have to admit when I move rooms at home it comes with me.
Couldn't imagine life without it!

alwaysadub

No, i go nowhere without my phone. Can't leave it alone for two minutes.

Hail 2 Da Thief

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

do you constantly have your phone on you?

No

Sauvignon82 wrote: »

Do you get anxious and tetchy if it runs out of battery or if you leave it at home?

No

Celtise

Yes I always have my phone on and on my person. I got a new phone a few months ago and only recently turned it off for the first time. I only remember one time in the last year where the battery went and I just stole my friend's phone and put my sim in it. Last weekend I was at a friend's birthday in some bog of a place and there was no network coverage at all, it was nice since I was with most of our friends anyways but still I kind of was aggitated checking for reception occasionally.

It's not like I use my phone that much...

Where To

i'm on call 24/7 so can't turn it off much as i'd love to:(

catbear

I got fed up of it so started leaving it at home. I'm never more than 30 minutes walk from home anyway so its not vital. Now I find it weird to have it on me. I'll bring it with me I'm going away for the day but it's now mostly my alarm clock. I do all my social stuff on facebook, much cheaper.