Comments on: Social Impact of Mobile Phones http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115 Photography, Graphic Design, Art, Code... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Zoomer http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-276 Zoomer Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:59:34 +0000 http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-276 <p>looks like the phone companies have done the advertising job they wanted then and it will probably only get worse.</p> <p>Its probably a good reason why I only really have my mobile for important things like phoneing home and asking whats for dinner. damn I'm guessing thats not important lol. </p> <p>well anyway i tend not to use my phone that much but i tend to recieve a few with the same context</p> looks like the phone companies have done the advertising job they wanted then and it will probably only get worse.

Its probably a good reason why I only really have my mobile for important things like phoneing home and asking whats for dinner. damn I’m guessing thats not important lol.

well anyway i tend not to use my phone that much but i tend to recieve a few with the same context

]]> By: Bardblogger http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-270 Bardblogger Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:58:19 +0000 http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-270 <p>I gave up my mobile 5 months ago and couldn't be happier. If people tells me to meet them somewhere at some time, they damn well better show up, and I'm now free to be pissed right to their faces if they don't. And I save $50/month. The mobile phone is telecommunication's manifestation of society's obsession with shirking commitment. One lousy thing I've noticed, at least living here in the Swamp of Despair that is Washington, DC, is the evaporation of call boxes/phone booths in public places. Of course, since it IS Washington, DC, there's really no one in the local area you'd want to call and have a friendly chat with, anyway.</p> I gave up my mobile 5 months ago and couldn’t be happier. If people tells me to meet them somewhere at some time, they damn well better show up, and I’m now free to be pissed right to their faces if they don’t. And I save $50/month. The mobile phone is telecommunication’s manifestation of society’s obsession with shirking commitment. One lousy thing I’ve noticed, at least living here in the Swamp of Despair that is Washington, DC, is the evaporation of call boxes/phone booths in public places. Of course, since it IS Washington, DC, there’s really no one in the local area you’d want to call and have a friendly chat with, anyway.

]]> By: Zimmer http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-269 Zimmer Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:25:13 +0000 http://www.denyerec.co.uk/posts/115#comment-269 <p>I agree entirely. Lack of planning and commitment based on the assumption that an instant communication can always change things to accomodate one's own actions regardless of the needs of others. Strikes me also as rude when people answer a mobile call whilst already engaged in a one to one conversation with someone, or even worse, in the middle of a meeting. In days gone by secretaries would have fielded the calls (or the phone would have remained unanswered) and only interrupted in an emergency. It's as if some people are so arrogant as to believe that by answering a call in such circumstances they are endowing themselves with some sort of importance ...:( sad....they are just downright rude IMHO..As for the 'British' bit..you are English, and as Eartha Kitt once remarked in a song..'..an Englishman takes his time..' ;)</p> I agree entirely. Lack of planning and commitment based on the assumption that an instant communication can always change things to accomodate one’s own actions regardless of the needs of others. Strikes me also as rude when people answer a mobile call whilst already engaged in a one to one conversation with someone, or even worse, in the middle of a meeting. In days gone by secretaries would have fielded the calls (or the phone would have remained unanswered) and only interrupted in an emergency. It’s as if some people are so arrogant as to believe that by answering a call in such circumstances they are endowing themselves with some sort of importance …:( sad….they are just downright rude IMHO..As for the ‘British’ bit..you are English, and as Eartha Kitt once remarked in a song..’..an Englishman takes his time..’ ;)

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