Comments on: Cell Phones Suck

By: Will

Will — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:00:46 +0000

it seems to be making us more distant than keeping us closer

By: Ahmed

Ahmed — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:57:34 +0000

thank you

By: LynLyn

LynLyn — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:57:04 +0000

totally agree! My sister and her husband are obsessed with their cell phones, and the last several years Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner was pathetic, as we could not hold a conversation without their cell phones going off every time they received text messages from their friends, or worse, notifications that someone posted a new comment on FACEBOOK. And we are talking adults in their 40′s!

By: Keith

Keith — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:46:33 +0000

Eric: you’re mostly right here. But, like cars, cell phones come in a variety of price points. Mine, for instance, is the free one I got with my plan 3 years ago. It has no extra features (I’ve never even sent a text message) and I really don’t use it very much. In fact, in one week, I probably make no more than 3 or 4 calls. I don’t own a home phone either. A friend of mine is at the opposite end of the cell phone usage spectrum. He has no children, works 12 hours a day, and has a huge business network of relationships. He’s on the phone all day, every day. But, he manages to get all his business done without doing it while driving (he doesn’t have a drivers license so I guess that’s easily accomplished). Anyway, I think I probably agree with you, except that I pay almost nothing for my phone and plan so I don’t mind never using it.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:35:11 +0000

Although you are right about the over use of cell phones and that people making excuses for them and that they are a danger to parenting and to driving, that has nothing to do with using them for other purposes.
You have a car and you had your SET of reasons for purchasing it.
I know and you know that you do not ONLY use it for those listed purposes. That would be stupid.
Cell phones are the same.
If I were to have purchased my cell phone so I would have it in an emergency.( I said if cause I did not) but if I did, there is no way that I would pay that much “just in case money” and not use it for every bit I can when ever and where ever I can including dumping my home phone and making personal calls from where ever because now where ever I am here is my home phone.

Everyone “Hang Up And Drive”.

By: wilfred costas

wilfred costas — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:16:42 +0000

I see families sitting for dinner and all they do is text…to WHO? Who is more important than family?

By: wilfred costas

wilfred costas — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:09:18 +0000

being a parent today would mean plugging your child into a computer so you can do???? on your cel phone

By: wilfred costas

wilfred costas — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:04:14 +0000

cell phones are out of control. They do not bring us closer, but distance us in an electronic sense, and bring us closer to dehumanization

By: Beebo

Beebo — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:53:48 +0000

Although I didn’t read the whole article, but did skim through it, I must say I totally agree. People have these things shoved up their, ahem, asses (and when I say asses, yes, I mean their faces) on a frequently nauseating basis. Their kids got ‘em, their spouse got one and sh!t, the family dog might as have one!…Granny, too. Either way, they need to put them down. I’ve seen waaay too many parents talking instead of watching their kids at the park. When did people FORGET how to parent? Geez Louise!!! Anyway, thanks for the article and hopefully it makes some bum put THEIRS down and watch out for ‘Little Billy’ about to set the house on fire!

By: Regina

Regina — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:05:57 +0000

Hi,

I forgot to paste the important part, sorry:

Remember?

Subject: TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or
drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a
can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with
bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or
cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not
to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air
bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a
special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle
and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda
pop with sugar in it, but we weren’t overweight because WE
WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long
as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot
the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we
learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video
games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies,
no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no
Internet or Internet chat rooms…WE HAD FRIENDS and we went
outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and
there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did
not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games
with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it
would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on
the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to
them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment.
Imagine that!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was
unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers,
problem solvers and inventors ever! The past 50 years have
been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we
learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL.

And YOU are one of them! CONGRATULATIONS!

By: Regina

Regina — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:02:41 +0000

Somebody sent me this a while ago, I think that’s just the point!