I use mine a lot and check it al the time but i could live without it... i think You may have your own "slang" but we English were the origin of the language. Notice that its called English and oh... wait... so are we!
i jumped in a river with a cell phone on my person, i didnt really care that it broke, i dont even want a new one
Oh! Wait! We're across the ocean! Therefore, we speak 'American Slang/American English.' It's different in different places. And for being the origin of the language, the majority of those (English) that I encounter don't speak it properly with or without the slang of their respective nation. Rather sad, actually.
Those of you who claim cellular phones are worthless because of services such as MSN and AIM will one day learn how wrong you are. Sure that's true if you don't leave the house, but I cannot begin to describe how useful phones are for meeting people downtown or finding which bar to crawl to next when you are out on the town. Also, I don't know how I would call a cab as I rarely have change on me for pay phones. Additionally, mobile phones are slowly taking over as my land line as well, as I see no real reason to pay for a home phone when my cell phone can serve the same purpose. As for texting: invaluable when at work or in another place where a conversation is inappropriate, but information still needs to get conveyed.
Texting becomes a problem, however, when the movie gets to a slow part and you, sitting in the back row, are suddenly blinded by thirty to forty blue screens down in front from a bunch of middle-schoolers texting each other. That's most of my problem with cell phones--they may as well be extensions of the body for a growing number of people. I'm fine with using a phone to talk to somebody when you need to talk to somebody. I'm not fine with the idiot woman in front of me that's damn near killing those around her because she can't drive and talk at the same time and chooses to talk on her cell phone. I'm not fine with the idiot trying to order a burger while talking on his phone that acts offended when he's interrupted by the guy at the counter asking if he wants fries with that. That's my problem with phones.
Indeed, I never claimed that irresponsible cell phone usage was appropriate or even sane, only that I have come to rely on my phone very much. This does not include talking/ texting while driving, in movies, church, or any other place where it could be seen as disrespectful or dangerous. Talking on my phone comes in handy when out of the house, and texting is invaluable in situations where music is too loud to hear oneself think let alone carry on a phone conversation. :wacko: Additionally, I did not have a cell phone until I could afford to pay the bill myself, a decision I am glad my parents forced upon me, as it taught me responsibility and respect for such things. Good points though
I paid for my own cell phone and the bills each month. Maybe that's where I learned not to use countless hours of minutes that I could have easily cut down upon, but who knows. You see kids these days complaining about how they got their phones taken away because they went hundreds of text messages over what they're allotted each month. That's pathetic. When I was in school, they took our phones up if they saw them. They made so much money by charging $10 to get the phone back at the end of the week (or you could wait until the end of the semester and get it free...), it's not even funny. Now, I've got a professor that throws stuff at us if we're texting during his class.
I'd kinda be mad, because I text my friends a lot, but at the same time, I do have the Internet, lol.
