My friends and family are frequently frustrated with me. They call my cell phone and it rings and rings and rings.
It's not that I look at the phone and snub people. When I go out, I often forget my phone. When I'm in one room I often don't hear the cell phone ringing in another room.
And I don't care. I always get a chance to call back and talk to the person trying to call.
Where does this idea come from that all humans must be technologically/communicatively available 24/7? It is OK to have some solitude, some reclusiveness, some separation from the world.
I don't get my cell phone. I don't like my cell phone. People call me and I talk to them and I like that (because I do like the people that try to call me). But I think people would be happier if I drilled a hole in my head and inserted a mini-cell in there so that they could have constant access to me.
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Truth: It was easier to call you and talk to you when you had a land line that technically isn't as accesible as the mobile "cell phone"
ReplyDeleteI for one, as your friend, don't think you need to be readily reached 24/7, but it is kind of weird that you know only have a phone that is mobile yet you are often harder to get a hold of (and this was even before Fox came along).
Obviously I am not bent out of shape about it, but I find it weird that you are harder to reach now that you supposedly have a phone that is designed to make it easier to reach you at anytime. I personally have my cell phone purely for the fact that it is nice to have in case of emergency and now with free roaming/long distance it makes a land line obsolete. The nice thing for me is I often don't have people calling me (I think you are more popular with the incoming phone calls then I am).
One reason it's harder to get ahold of me is because I now live in a house. In an apartment, it was easy to hear the phone anywhere. Now, if I go upstairs without my phone, I'm just likely to not hear it. I'd blame the house more than the switch away from landlines.
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