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Originally Posted by Hitch
OMG, and this--the "clear connection"--too. I have lost track of the number of ppl who will call me, on some staticky, dropping-out line, rejoicing over how they've "cut the cord" (yer, right...) and now they only have a cellphone, not a landline. My sister's cheap husband did that--migrated their landline to a cellphone--and I haven't had a decent conversation with her since. Two years, and every time we speak I hear noise, rasping, dropouts, you-name-it. It's bloody distracting, and it makes me want to get OFF the phone, not make the call. I swear, I know it sounds daft, but it's affected our sister-time.
No, thanks. I'd rather be fiscally stupid and not plagued by absurdly-bad phone reception and the like. And it's not as though spam-callers don't have a throughway to cellphones now, either.
Not to mention, as 4691 says, any type of common courtesy during normal human interaction--dinners, family get-togethers--seems to have gone utterly out the window. Who the hell wants to eat dinner with someone who spends the entire meal on their smartphone, texting, doing social media, etc.? It's...deranged, to me. I guess I just don't have enough friends where I have to madly keep up with a few hundred folks all around the planet, 99% of whom I've never met, all of whom have to give me blow-by-blow details of what they had for lunch, or what cute thing their dog did today. I have like, two places that I "hang," MR being one of them, and that's it.
My comment on social media:
Hitch |
On landlines: at least if the power gets knocked out we can call the power company. Depending on the size of the outage it might have got the cell tower.
I wouldn't even want to look at Facebook on a phone.
The spoiler is lunch and everything the dog did this morning.
I look at Facebook about once a month.
This (Mobileread) is where I tend to get lost.