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Post by Alpo on Aug 13, 2020 12:10:45 GMT -6
It has just come to me what is wrong with them.
I was just on the phone to my daughter. We talked for about 30 minutes. Much of my side of the conversation was, "what was that?"
She was doing something. I don't know what she was doing but it was making background noise. And because she was using both hands to do it she could not hold her phone, so she was using her headset, which is a piece of crap.
I on the other hand, was sitting in my chair doing nothing except talk to her on the phone.
In the time before cell phones, that's what people did. When you were talking to someone on the phone, you were inside sitting down talking to them on the phone. Not wandering all around the house opening cabinets shutting doors turning on the dishwasher - in general making a whole lot of noise. And the phone itself had a microphone down by your mouth, and a loudspeaker up by your ear. Now they don't.
Cell phones have made life easier for people that need to not be out of touch.
But for people that just wish to make a telephone call, these things are a pain in the tuchus.
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Post by piney on Aug 13, 2020 13:24:07 GMT -6
I also wonder what's so great about them. Granted, I have a really nice phone that I like now, but I have one of those converter boxes that turns my home phone into a cellular line for $20/month; it really has been terrible, it has an echo that I can't stand and I get to hear myself say hello right back. It works, but the quality is laughable. It does make my number portable so I am keeping it for the time being. My current cell phone had a deciding factor of, "Maybe if I get a really expensive phone it will be better," which seems to have been the case. I always research things to death but I bought this one before it hit the market and I had to wait. I am reminded of the tall stool in my childhood kitchen, the primary purpose of which was for any of us to talk on the phone.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 13, 2020 14:45:10 GMT -6
Ah, when the phone was on the kitchen wall! The call quality was so much better. I am soon going to plug in my corded Trimline vintage phone. Imagine being on the phone and the doorbell rings and you have to lay the phone down to go and answer the door. It's a trade-off I'll happily make.
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Post by red14 on Aug 13, 2020 18:05:23 GMT -6
I have a house phone, a flip phone (17 dollars), and sitting push button, and a old rotary we used during the hurricane when electricity went out.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 13, 2020 18:59:12 GMT -6
I wish we still had a phone that would work with the power off. The phone goes through the router. The only reason I keep a cell phone.
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Post by red14 on Aug 13, 2020 19:40:01 GMT -6
I don't want a 'smart phone'. I see people with their noses stuck in their phones with no idea of the world around them, like Lemmings going over a hill to their death.
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Post by jwrauch on Aug 13, 2020 20:02:06 GMT -6
I don't want a 'smart phone'. I see people with their noses stuck in their phones with no idea of the world around them, like Lemmings going over a hill to their death. Some of them have literally walked to their death. Darwin at work
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Post by piney on Aug 14, 2020 5:17:15 GMT -6
I have a nice smart phone, I just never got in the 'habit of smart phone'. I know a lot of people that ignore the world in favor of tapping away on their phones, it's so disrespectful. I like having access to the forum on my phone when I'm on vacation or something, but I have never accessed facebook on any of my phones and don't plan to do so, it's just not that important.
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Post by red14 on Aug 14, 2020 5:57:06 GMT -6
I 'do' Fbook to keep touch with my 1st cousins, 21 total, 16 of us left. Fbook leans left, we mostly lean way right, so it's awkward. I also touch base with some real old friends.
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Post by piney on Aug 14, 2020 10:56:20 GMT -6
I only have facebook on my laptop and I restrict it with programs so it can't track me or target me with ads. facebook is a dangerous entity, and has too much influence; I also keep track of friends but oddly it was my estranged brother that convinced me to get an account, I have since unfriended him. I have 32 friends and relatives on facebook, I had to weed out a bunch of far-left windbags.
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Post by red14 on Aug 14, 2020 11:14:40 GMT -6
I only have 6 or 7, only family or former coaches or players. I don't do any internet on my cell, just calls or text, not even message machine.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 14, 2020 11:49:39 GMT -6
My hubby is a good example of the only thing that was ever good about FB. He taught 6th grade back in the 70's and a lot of his former students have contacted him through FB. They're all lovely people who all have stories about what a positive influence he has been in their lives. They have given him a lot of joy and even through his dementia, he still remembers them and enjoys getting cards from them.
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Post by red14 on Aug 14, 2020 13:03:48 GMT -6
He (and you) should be very proud, there are very few good teachers. I don't have any favorites. I was smart, or so I thought so, but I languished and did mediocre.
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Post by sparkle on Aug 14, 2020 14:04:55 GMT -6
He (and you) should be very proud, there are very few good teachers. I don't have any favorites. I was smart, or so I thought so, but I languished and did mediocre. And that is obviously the result of your never having had inspiring teachers. You are certainly not lacking in intelligence!
We are very proud of my husband's "kids".
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Post by SaddleLT on Aug 17, 2020 22:04:42 GMT -6
Believe it or not, no cell service here at the ranch and it's GREAT! Depending on which direction I'm going, I either have to drive 15 miles in one direction or 50 miles in the other to get a cell signal.
People have forgotten how to talk to each other. Years ago I was working a Cowboy Poetry event and cowboy poet, Waddie Mitchell, was talking about how cowboy poetry got started. He explained how when he was younger and working on a ranch in eastern Nevada in the middle of nowhere, that they didn't have electricity, so there was no television, and "darned poor radio." He went on to say that the ranch hands did the "strangest thing at night" to entertain themselves. You could hear a pin drop in anticipation from the crowd not knowing what he was going to say next... "We talked to each other!"
A while back, I received a text from a buddy of mine that I hadn't seen in several months. I was in town and close to his business, so I just dropped on by. He said, "You didn't have to come by LT! You could have just texted me!" I said, "I hadn't seen you in a while so I thought I'd stop by and say HOWDY in person!"
One of the worst whippin's I got growing up is when I got caught playing on the, "party line." HA!
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