The Next Dodo Bird (1 Viewer)

[Russell]

This weekend I was at a rest stop on the highway and took a photo of this odd thing: the next dodo bird.

 

[lancer]

This weekend I was at a rest stop on the highway and took a photo of this odd thing: the next dodo bird.

This is so true. In my (Montgomery County, Md.) area, a public pay phone is a rare find. They should be on the endangered species list. If one does not have a cell phone (and I don't), one is SOL. -- Al

 

[4th Hussar]

This is so true. In my (Montgomery County, Md.) area, a public pay phone is a rare find. They should be on the endangered species list. If one does not have a cell phone (and I don't), one is SOL. -- Al

There are very few of us that don't have cell phones - Perhaps we are the next Dodo birds ?

 

[thebritfarmer]

I don't have and won't have one either.

I have a home & work number. If peple cant get me at either (and they pretty much can) then tough. Most people don't even really need a cell, just an annoying accessory imo. Half the time you can't even talk to a person they are too busy checking their texts or what not. If people had proper decorum when using their cell phones it wouldn't be so bad, unfortunately that is not the case.

 

[jazzeum]

Actually I find a cell phone a bit less of a requirement than a BB, at least if you're working, not to mention that a BB also usually has a phone in it. It also depends on what you do. In my job it's more or less a necessity as you get emails all the time.

A couple of years ago, I asked a colleague if he enjoyed his vacation and he corrected me, "we don't have vacations anymore, we just get time away from the office." With BBs, you are, whether you like it or not, constantly in touch.

During my trip to China, mine actually broke, which was kind of nice during the day. However, that meant I would have to find computer time to look at emails late at night or early in the morning (due to the 12 hour difference).

 

[Combat]

I'm amazed when thousands of people stand in line for hours to buy the newest cell phones like the recent Apple phone. An interesting stat is that use of wireless voice minutes in the US dropped for the first time ever this year. The younger age groups are using them primarily for texting and downloads and not to make traditional voice calls. Some speculation that voice calls will eventually be free in order to get people to sign up for other data plans.

I always wondered why they didn't make a wireless phone that could be used with your in-home wireline phone system. In other words why do people have to pay separately for a wireline and wireless phone and have two different numbers instead of one phone that could operate on both wireline and wireless connections? I know you could cancel your wireline service and just use wireless, but a lot of people want to keep the quality and availability of wireline service when they are at home.

 

[Scott]

A REAL DODO is the Phone Booth! That was a joke in the 80s in a Superman movie.

My cable provider keeps wanting me to add land line but I just don't trust it. My cable TV and internet cable have been vulnerable to storms and tall trucks. I don't use the cell normally but it's there. The rest of the family uses them a lot. Good for keeping track of my kids as My Dear Wife will awake from a sound sleep and call my son.

Maybe Newspapers are on the list. I can read the funnies on-line.

 

[lancer]

There are very few of us that don't have cell phones - Perhaps we are the next Dodo birds ?

My wife and family refer to me as a Dadasaurus. You know the type. Starts many sentences with "Things were better when I was a kid..." or "Back in the 50's..."(insert 60's, 70's, or 80's, as appropriate). Oh, excuse me for geezing on the forum. -- Al

 

[trooper]

Like many other more senior members of society I hate technology. I do have a cell phone which I carry for emergencies only. It has only been used once, to call the emergency services when the car broke down. I hate technology because it moves too fast. Before I can understand one system twenty twelve other systems have superceded it. Cell phones are no longer mobile telephones, they are life support systems. Kids cannot function without them, business can't exist without them and I am quite sure that at the Second Coming Our Lord will appear with one of those stupid attachments stuck in his ear. Bring back the quill pen!

 

[Mitch]

I have a BB and seperate phone for social stuff but, don't think I will be updating now for a long time as the BB does it all. I hate and won't use pay phones as they are never clean, stink, and are nearly always vandalised to some extent. Last time I used one I was at school.
Mitch

 

[Scott]

I was telling my son and his friend how MUCH BETTER things are. We had to make home movies with 4 mins of silent film, edit it with sticky tape, and maybe a dozen people would see it. He can shoot a movie with his phone or digital camera with sound, edit it on his MAC, and unload it to Youtube and thousands will see it!

 

[Russell]

4th Hussar wrote,

There are very few of us that don't have cell phones - Perhaps we are the next Dodo birds ?

I think you're right. ... so be it ...

 

[sammy719]

Oh my, I thought I was the only person in the free world that didn't own a cell phone!!!! my employees give me a hard time as does the family with thiere new fang dangle phones, I could care less!!! if you can't reach me here at home, or on the computer or work then I guess I cared not to be bothered, the only reason if I do (big if) would be to check sports scores!...Sammy

 

[Russell]

I don't dislike technology per se, still I can understand Trooper saying that. For example Trooper, I like the internet especially on this forum .

I don't have a cell either, although I can see it might be useful if the car breaks down on the highway.

My daughter is twenty-five. When she was around 16 she was working at a beach camp and wanted a cell phone. Her social life away from home was just about to start. I resisted, I'm pretty cheap.

"But Dad," she said, "Without a cell phone I don't even exist." Years later, I'm still mulling that one over.

So a friend and fellow councillor at the camp just gave or lent her an old one.

I drove home.

 

[thebritfarmer]

I don't dislike technology per se, still I can understand Trooper saying that. For example Trooper, I like the internet especially on this forum .

I don't have a cell either, although I can see it might be useful if the car breaks down on the highway.

My daughter is twenty-five. When she was around 16 she was working at a beach camp and wanted a cell phone. Her social life away from home was just about to start. I resisted, I'm pretty cheap.

"But Dad," she said, "Without a cell phone I don't even exist." Years later, I'm still mulling that one over.

So a friend and fellow councillor at the camp just gave or lent her an old one.

I drove home.

and I am sure she was none the worse for it Russell.

 

[jazzeum]

With all due respect, I don't think you guys understand how kids operate today. Without a cell phone they don't communicate. If you tell them to use the house phone, it's just not the same and kids today, for some reason, don't like to talk to each other live. It's all texting. So, in a sense your daughter is right: without a cell phone or some texting device, it's hard to communicate with the rest of the world.

 

[lancer]

As mentioned earlier, I, too, am a technophobe. I use a computer (real loose definition) to check my banking and to read (and add my 2 cents worth to) this forum. I do occasional research with it and scan TS sights as well and that is about it. More complicated use or communication is beyond my knowledge. I have no cell phone or any other modern day communicators. Heck, I resisted moving to a touch-tone phone for years. Don't even have a flat screen TV. Old habits die hard. -- Al

 

[thebritfarmer]

With all due respect, I don't think you guys understand how kids operate today. Without a cell phone they don't communicate. If you tell them to use the house phone, it's just not the same and kids today, for some reason, don't like to talk to each other live. It's all texting. So, in a sense your daughter is right: without a cell phone or some texting device, it's hard to communicate with the rest of the world.

I understand it alright, and what you outlined Brad is the very issue I have with cell phones. We are raising a world of ignorant buggers.

 

[Cardigan600]

.Yo Troopers, man are there some Dinosaurs on this forum lol. Get this my lad is three and since he was two and a half he has been able to use a DS, he now owns a Playstation three and Wii, and has the basics of the Laptop His grasp of the English language is amazing, nearly forgot uses the cell phone as well. If I said to him like our parents did when I was three there's a Moo Moo (Cow) he gets really mad and says Dad its not its a COW lmao. I put it down to the TV, he picks everything up so quick. Just think guys what we were doing at three years old. (you Dinosaurs)lol.
Bernard

 

[Peter Reuss]

Without a BB or Droid, how can you keep up to date on the forum