I agree with all. Have you ever texted? I tried once and realized how
stupid the concept was. Why not just call, and if they weren't
available, leave a voice message? Text messaging is stupid. I'd never
pay for it as a parent. I don't use it as an adult. So my feeling is,
unless you're camping or elsewhere needing emergency contact, cell
phones are a pain in the butt, especially when given to children. For
those who want to keep track of their kids, I like the chip implant
idea best.
Jeff M
On Jul 11, 2009, at 5:19 AM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:50 AM, Constance Warner<cawar...@his.com>
wrote:
I also wonder if there's a point--maybe in the mid 30's--when the
realization dawns that you don't have an unlimited number of hours
on this
earth; so it becomes very annoying to spend some of those hours
messing
around with yet another gadget that, when you finally master it,
will let
your boss page you at 3 a.m. or require you to finish a report on
the bus
the next morning [to take an example from an actual ad].
Cell phones are clearly, to me at least, a more recent tool in the
arsenal of human virtual enslavement products. I refer particularly
to those NexTel phones that are handed out by employers to all those
folks who work out of and drive around in those white commercial
trucks and vans with the ladders on top.
Of course, the smart phone [or blackberry or whatever] also
functions as a
highly potent STATUS SYMBOL, which is probably a large part of the
message
of the cellphone ads. I go to networking events [when I'm lucky
enough to
find them] where people just assume that if you're a person of
substance,
you're carrying a handheld device with twice the computing power
it took
NASA to land Armstrong on the moon in 1969.
Ain't that the truth. And the learning curve for those devices is
so huge that by the time one is half way to figuring it out, the new
model is released and you gotta get it unless you want folks to be
talking about you behind your back. It is nuts.
Steve
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