Are you addicted to your cell phone

[teejay]

Heck , I still use fingers and toes .....

[yellowlynn]

I would like to use my fingers and toes, but nobody ever told me how many I had. I know piggies going to market, but that only covers one foot. ????

Lynn

[eightyeightfan1]

I'm not addicted. Friends always ask if I got their text "last night". I have to keep reminding them that I don't have my phone on me 24/7, like they do.

I also asked people on break at work(kind of a social experiment) If they could live without their phones for an hour. They all said "Sure I can live without it." When I said "hand it over", they all said "Are you nuts!"
Point made.

[tomustang]

I know I can live without my phone for hours, sometimes I lose it for days

[ezdays]

Just a few things I find we can live without:

• Facebook,
  Twitter,
  Linkdin,
  YouTube,
  Premium movie channels,
  Skype,
  Windows 8,
  Everything that someone comes to the door to sell us,
  and oh yeah,... a cell phone, even ones that aren't so smart.

A few things that I might find somewhat addictive and hard to do without:

• Satellite TV,
  High speed internet access,
  Windows XP and/or Windows 7,
  A running vehicle, especially my truck,
  My N scale layout,
  Big Blue train forums,
  Email,
  Walmart,
  Target shooting in the desert,
  My wife,
  and a landline home phone with voice messaging.

[FiatFan]

Don - interesting you should mention Facebook. My wife mentioned a few days ago that this is our version of Facebook. Just my wife's 2¢.

Tom

[teejay]

Notice how Don has his wife listed 10th ......WHOOOOPS !! ....May I suggest #1

T ( Happy Wife , Happy Life )

[ezdays]

Notice how Don has his wife listed 10th ......WHOOOOPS !! ....May I suggest #1

T ( Happy Wife , Happy Life )

Hey, that could have been an afterthought, but these lists are in no particular order seeing as how I can do without the entire first list, and think I need everything on the second ..... wow, that got me out of extreme hot water, didn't it?

[Tyson Rayles]

"wow, that got me out of extreme hot water, didn't it?"


Probably not, but good try ! You should be O.K. as long as your wife doesn't see it.

[ezdays]

"wow, that got me out of extreme hot water, didn't it?"


Probably not, but good try ! You should be O.K. as long as your wife doesn't see it.

Safe for now anyway......Remember, they say that love is blind, so I think that she would just be pleased to be on the list.

Did I just dig the hole a bit deeper?

Boy, am I glad she stays away from the Net..

[RobertInOntario]

My son & I plus 3 of our cousins have booked a canoe trip in Algonquin Park (in northern Ontario) for a weekend in July. It will be very interesting going without my iPhone for 3 days, as there will definitely be no internet or WIFI in the back country. It will also be interesting to see how my 10-year-old son copes without any gadgets!

[Mike Kieran]

It's really scary. My wife and I will go out and see couples not talking to each other and glued to their cell phones. My wife and I have more interesting lives by our work and by always going out, yet we don't feel the need to twitter. I've found that Twitterers have horrible social/verbal skills.

[ezdays]

It'll be very interesting when some of today's teens and pre-teens hit the job market and find that a written report, proposal or other document will not use today's texting and twitter shorthand. I don't indulge and don't have young kids to worry about anymore, but I was watching something on TV the other day, and some of these abbreviations make your hair stand straight out. I can just see one of these young adults trying to fill out a job application or writing a resume...There are certain protocols in the business world that do not change, regardless of how into one is into Facebook, texting, twitter, body piercing or tattooing.

[teejay]

Nice " dancing " on the wife issue Don . I'm sure she's #1 in your heart just like mine is

There , I think we're safe !

T

[ezdays]

Nice " dancing " on the wife issue Don . I'm sure she's #1 in your heart just like mine is

There , I think we're safe !

T

No doubt about that, we're just a few days away from our 53rd anniversary so I must be doing something right.