On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Jeff Miles<[email protected]> wrote:
> A wife of a friend of mine calls and ichats all the time. It's > annoying as hell. Some people just feel the need? Even when they have > nothing to say? I frequently leave my cell phone at home. I just have it for > emergencies when traveling. And leaving it home gives me a great excuse. I was reading an Associated Press story this evening about how many younger office workers, in and around the 22 to 34 year old bracket KI am supposing, are virtually addicted to their cell phones, and consider them to be a virtual body part. Many sleep with their phones, and suffer anxiety attacks when their phones will not work from battery power losses or other causes. I am talking here about males and females. These same workers think that their employers should allow them to access their narcissistic networking sites on a regular basis while at work, and many employers are caving in to these demands simply to avoid the confrontations that would ensue if their workers broke the rules and were caught accessing the internet while they are supposed to be working. An awful lot of these younger folks think that almost unfettered use of their various communications devices is almost akin to eating or breathing. I recall seeing some video footage of the crowd outside of the Staples Center in Los Angeles as they waiting to see if they could get tickets to the MJ memorial ceremony. I was hard pressed to find a single person in the crowd of what appeared to be hundreds who were not either talking on, texting or gawking at their cell phones. I know of younger couples who have arguments with their mates related to whether or not they were ignoring calls or texts that were coming to their cell phones. These calls or texts were of the "Where are you?" nature, and resulted in the offended party angrily hurling the other's cell phone and smashing it. My, my. Expectations of instantaneous response running amok. A lady who works where I do talks on her cell phone while at work about 6 to 7 times a day, and gets or sends a similar number of text messages each day as well. I know for a fact that it is, with very few exceptions, nothing but idle chit-chat of no importance, yet she is compelled to do it daily. There must be some clinical term for her compulsive habit. I'd say "craving attention" but that is not really a clinical term. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
