Could you live without a mobile phone?

vamos! · 10-07-2012 09:39PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

A true sign that the technology is using you rather than you using it!

Someone who has just quit smoking will understand this pyschological feeling very well

What??? Seriously, we could all live without mobile if we chose to. The real question is do we want to go back to the days of having to hang around for ages waiting on someone who is running late while hoping they remembered the time and place?
You don't have to text, use apps and use all of the extras if you don't want to but I feel safer driving on back roads and walking in town with my phone.

Jesus Nut · 10-07-2012 09:41PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

Pretty sharp. I play a lot of poker which requires immediate calculations of pot odds, implied odds, outs, percentages etc.

An exception to society. You would be really suprised by how much people depend on there phone to do there mental thinking! Calculations, Spell Check, Google have had a dumbing down effect on alot of people but not all ! You know the type I'm on about.

Our local doctor is refered to as "doctor google" and that is not a joke!!!!!!!!

MrStuffins · 10-07-2012 09:41PM

vamos! wrote: »

What??? Seriously, we could all live without mobile if we chose to. The real question is do we want to go back to the days of having to hang around for ages waiting on someone who is running late while hoping they remembered the time and place?
You don't have to text, use apps and use all of the extras if you don't want to but I feel safer driving on back roads and walking in town with my phone.

Yup!

I mean, really we could live without shoes. Jackets. Watches. Computers. TVs etc.

But why would you want to?

Sunnyisland · 10-07-2012 09:42PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

A true sign that the technology is using you rather than you using it!

Someone who has just quit smoking will understand this psychological feeling very well

I stopped smoking in 06, Drinking in 09 so I know a fair bit of psychological feeling thanks

So its obvious I now have an addiction to my phone

I thought i just wanted to stay connected

Defiler Of The Coffin · 10-07-2012 09:44PM

I find myself reading wikipedia and listverse on the smartphone in bed just before going to sleep. My knowledge on the most obscure topics has increased steadily!

To answer the OPs question, yes, but it's not just a case of being not able to call and text people, I'd find it a serious inconvenience if I couldn't access email or internet on the go. That's just the way modern life is now, there's no going back... barring a nuclear strike of course.

fleabag · 10-07-2012 09:45PM

I have just bought my first mobile phone and managed grand for years without one. I got one because my other half felt happier knowing I had one when I was out and about.

Most people were surprised when I said I didn't have a phone but then often said I was better off without one in the next breath.

I've used it twice since buying - once when I got rear-ended on the bike and the second time when the throttle cable on the bike snapped. To be honest I would have only been really stuck without it on the latter occasion - and then I could have rolled the trouser leg up and waited for a passing motorist to stop and lend me theirs

I carry it with me but keep it switched off all the time unless I need to use it. Only a very few people know I have it. I reckon it's for my convenience not anyone else's. Hate to think that I have one but there's also the reassurance aspect.

Have you ever been on a street and looked around and seen everyone on a phone??? Eerie. I think it's a generational thing. I notice people whip out and start fiddling with a mobile in social situations to avoid having to make conversation or not to feel embarassed if they're on their own. My generation didn't grow up with mobiles so I personally don't mind being in a social setting with nothing to fiddle with and I don't feel like I need to check every 5 minutes in case I've received a message or missed a call. I believe t'is known as the best of both worlds!

Jimoslimos · 10-07-2012 09:46PM

Spent nearly a year travelling outback Australia with little to no mobile coverage - so yeah I think I can survive.

Though at the the time I was using a very basic Nokia, not sure how I'd cope without my smartphone.

NIMAN · 10-07-2012 09:46PM

Honestly don;t think the world could live without mobiles any more.

I have a €20 one for texting and calls, and that does me fine. I work with people who spend an absolute fortune and change their phones every 6 months cos they have to have the latest model. I rarely see these people make a call on them, just seem to play silly games even though most are in the 30s and early 40s.:rolleyes:

Pottler · 10-07-2012 09:51PM

I take/make about 50-150 calls a day for work on my mobile. I got one the minute they came out to replace the 2 way radio I had. Totally fecked without it. My working day is made up of my mobile, my Credit card and a vehicle. I can work without anything else, but without those 3, I'm stuffed. No mobile = no work.

Jesus Nut · 10-07-2012 09:56PM

I read that men who keep a mobile phone in there trouser pockets have on average 50% less sperm than men who dont keep a switched on phone in there pocket and I also just learned from a doctor that WiFi in primary schools is VERY bad for young girls as the microwaves can have a negative effect on there eggs (which all girls are born with about 200). This has been proven I read to damage the eggs of roughly 15 out of 100 primary school girls and the long term thing would be there baby (when they have them) will be born with a screwed up gene which will be carried through the blood line!
Scary taught!!

MrStuffins · 10-07-2012 09:58PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

I read that men who keep a mobile phone in there trouser pockets have on average 50% less sperm than men who dont keep a switched on phone in there pocket and I also just learned from a doctor that WiFi in primary schools is VERY bad for young girls as the microwaves can have a negative effect on there eggs (which all girls are born with about 200). This has been proven I read to damage the eggs of roughly 15 out of 100 primary school girls and the long term thing would be there baby (when they have them) will be born with a screwed up gene which will be carried through the blood line!
Scary taught!!

Well, 50% less sperm is still a lot of sperm!

Also, what's this about microwaves? WiFi uses Radio Waves!

Stheno · 10-07-2012 09:59PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

I read that men who keep a mobile phone in there trouser pockets have on average 50% less sperm than men who dont keep a switched on phone in there pocket and I also just learned from a doctor that WiFi in primary schools is VERY bad for young girls as the microwaves can have a negative effect on there eggs (which all girls are born with about 200). This has been proven I read to damage the eggs of roughly 15 out of 100 primary school girls and the long term thing would be there baby (when they have them) will be born with a screwed up gene which will be carried through the blood line!
Scary taught!!

and your scientifically peer reviewed articles are???

Anyway I've a mobile for work, put the thing on silent every evening, and check it maybe once or twice.

Weekends it goes on silent and I might check it sunday evening.

Rarely need it for personal purposes
Probably wouldn't have one were it not for work these days.

Jesus Nut · 10-07-2012 10:01PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

Well, 50% less sperm is still a lot of sperm!

Also, what's this about microwaves? WiFi uses Radio Waves!

well, what ever waves. You get my point.

NIMAN · 10-07-2012 10:01PM

They will soon bring out a mobile phone that doesn't a phone in it, for how often some people use that function.

MrStuffins · 10-07-2012 10:03PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

well, what ever waves. You get my point.

But your point is silly as far as I can see. Radio waves have been used for a multitude of things for ages.

And radiowaves are around you all the time whether you like it or not.

Care to link to sources for what you just said?

Jesus Nut · 10-07-2012 10:07PM

MrStuffins wrote: »

But your point is silly as far as I can see. Radio waves have been used for a multitude of things for ages.

And radiowaves are around you all the time whether you like it or not.

Care to link to sources for what you just said?

Looking for the youtube doctor interview I found but also read it on this

http://www.naturalnews.com/036224_genetic_disorders_DNA_electropollution.html

The House Of Wolves · 10-07-2012 10:08PM

My phone's been missing for three weeks now, and I can't be bothered to get up and search for it - so peaceful without it. People sending me messages on facebook - "y r u nvr rplyn!?" and I have the excuse "Lost my phone", and then log off and don't have to converse with them. It's nice, but slightly annoying when I got caught in the rain and didn't have the phone to call for a lift.

krudler · 10-07-2012 10:09PM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

I read that men who keep a mobile phone in there trouser pockets have on average 50% less sperm than men who dont keep a switched on phone in there pocket and I also just learned from a doctor that WiFi in primary schools is VERY bad for young girls as the microwaves can have a negative effect on there eggs (which all girls are born with about 200). This has been proven I read to damage the eggs of roughly 15 out of 100 primary school girls and the long term thing would be there baby (when they have them) will be born with a screwed up gene which will be carried through the blood line!
Scary taught!!

yes! no kids for me.

10-07-2012 10:09PM

Comparing the energy from (inside) a microwave oven to the energy from a wi-fi/mobile network or phone is a bit like comparing the light of a lighthouse with that of a candle at 100metres.

Jesus Nut · 10-07-2012 10:11PM

Deleted User wrote: »

Comparing the energy from (inside) a microwave oven to the energy from a wi-fi/mobile network or phone is a bit like comparing the light of a lighthouse with that of a candle at 100metres.

Yea, but when a laptop is ontop of the lap of a 5-9 year old girl who has weak tissue then mabey the effect is higher!
The study said it does not effect grown women! Only young primary school girls and again, only about 15 out of 100! But still

Eramen · 10-07-2012 10:37PM

Yes I certainly could live without it.

I actually preferred when mobile phones were a rarity and the only people owning them were well-to-do businessmen who used them for legitimate reasons. Communication was for the most part so much more spontaneous, free and uncomplicated then, as well as putting a human face on all social communication which leads to proper socialization and building of a living knowledge of human cultural & societal norms. I mean how many people actually need mobile phones today? I'd wager very few (I don't for definite) if we are honest and look at the big picture.

Today it seems that all social-communication responsibility has gone out the window, with people failing to find their place within a group structure or an inclusive social culture aka friendship/association based on reliance and shared values with colleagues, family, relatives and community. I think the adoption of new technologies has a real impact on the above.

Today it seems far too easy for a person to 'go in his own direction', to do whatever he 'feels like', without regard for the well-being of others or even himself. He is socially isolated in a world of his own technological making. We might say that we are all 'alone together', it's very sad. Look at how FB can be misused for example, this is real isolation when it is abused. There is no longer a common interest or point of origin to be found among people with no real investment within society itself. And without these things there is no common future either. One stems from the other.

Mobile phones aren't to blame for all this of course, but they can be observed to be a contributing factor to the overall social demise of modern society, along with the almost reasonless faith placed in technology to 'correct' our problems. Technological civilization simply becomes a mirage at this point, as thinker Julius Evola described. The problems it seemingly corrects are really just hidden, kicked down the road for others to solve or aggravated in some other fashion. The real question is, why do this problems exist in the first place, what is their cause, and how can we stop them in actuality?

I mean come on, if some people don't get a response to a text within 10 minutes, they are asking 'Are you dead or what?' in the next. Or going out somewhere with people you know, and having to compete with the phone for attention and communication. We've ALL been there.. Social responsibly is lacking, group norms are not being learned. The youth (which would be my peer group) are right now are a severe disadvantage compared to previous generations; the levels of disassociation and anti-social activity are indeed staggering.. do I even need to explain?

Fully fledged relationships with loved-ones and the opposite sex especially are in dire straits, nevermind a hugely over-bloated violence-based social culture (indeed Gandi said that all modern Western culture is violence based, because it ascribes material values only. This is also something peculiar to the technological era)- the very product of a lack of social belonging and cohesion. Anyway, these are just some of my thoughts, I'll end it before this gets too long!

cocoshovel · 10-07-2012 10:43PM

Yes. I only send about 1 or 2 texts a week. I bought 20 euro credit back in May and I still have 10 euro of it left. I only keep it for occasional work and the just-incase really.

frisbeeface · 10-07-2012 11:34PM

I definitely could live without it. Pretty much everything I use my phone for I could use the internet for instead.

christmas2012 · 10-07-2012 11:35PM

Im a bit of a retro,i could live without my mobile there are other ways of communicating with people,like knocking on their door,i often do that to a few neighbours and friends..They dont mind it either as there of that 90's era,where mobile phones didnt really play a big part in socialising or face book or anything like that.So i could live without it,having said that though if i was stuck somewhere i would need it with credit,working and charged,as i got stuck in dublin one day without a working phone,so i immediately had to buy another functioning one fast!I have to admit i felt naked and vunerable without it..

DEFTLEFTHAND · 10-07-2012 11:46PM

Yes, it more than likely wouldn't be an issue.

nbar12 · 10-07-2012 11:52PM

i went to the toilet today in work and forgot to bring my phone and lets just say i didn't last my usual 20mins

Cantona's Collars · 10-07-2012 11:58PM

christmas2012 wrote: »

Im a bit of a retro,i could live without my mobile there are other ways of communicating with people,like knocking on their door,i often do that to a few neighbours and friends..They dont mind it either as there of that 90's era,where mobile phones didnt really play a big part in socialising.

There's a trend now of ringing or texting neighbours to see if it's ok to call over plus I've seen it in threads here where people won't answer the door unless the person knocking has made an appointment.Personally I've seen people standing outside of houses phoning the person inside to get them to open their door.
I could live without my phone at times but when it comes to work it's essential.

Shryke · 11-07-2012 12:01AM

nbar12 wrote: »

i went to the toilet today in work and forgot to bring my phone and lets just say i didn't last my usual 20mins

Jesus Christ 20 minutes you should have a novel written sitting in there.

4zn76tysfajdxp · 11-07-2012 12:04AM

Jesus Nut wrote: »

Yea, but when a laptop is ontop of the lap of a 5-9 year old girl who has weak tissue then mabey the effect is higher!
The study said it does not effect grown women! Only young primary school girls and again, only about 15 out of 100! But still

Look on the bright side though: Less teenage pregnancies.

christmas2012 · 11-07-2012 12:04AM

There's a trend now of ringing or texting neighbours to see if it's ok to call over plus I've seen it in threads here where people won't answer the door unless the person knocking has made an appointment.Personally I've seen people standing outside of houses phoning the person inside to get them to open their door.

Its nuts the way things have gone..People need to take a step back and look at their behaviour all it takes is a second of curtain peeking or peephole peeking to see whos at the feckin door..

Could you live without a mobile phone?

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