| Posted: April-14-2009 at 11:19pm | IP Logged
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Geez, does anyone besides yours truly think we're living in a day and time of where we're a too connected society?
I was eating a late lunch yesterday afternoon with a couple buddies of mine at Pizza Inn here in Johnson City and, a man was sitting with his sophisticated cell phone typing out text messages or e-mails or something. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, couldn't he have taken at least 30 minutes to eat lunch without being bothered by his cell phone or by texting?
About cell phones out in public, is there anything more annoying to hear a cell phone ring out loud in a restaurant? Not just hearing the phone ring, but also having to listen to whomever talk in a loud voice over their cell phone. Excuse me, I don't want to hear anyone else talking business or about anything else while I'm out eating. First off, it's downright rude for an individual to be talking on their cell phone inside a restaurant.
We have computers and the Internet, instant messengers, MySpace, Facebook ... and now, Twitter. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't expect me to be receiving "tweets" via my cell phone. I've never sent the first text message, and don't plan on sending one, either.
Before I had my cell phone provider (Alltel) block my phone's ability to receive text messages about two years ago, I was receiving 10-20 texts a day. I told buddies of mine if they wanted to communicate with me, either call my home phone or cell phone, because I wasn't about to type out a text on my cell phone. It's really quite easy to contact me, dial seven numbers. Because when I leave my home, I always forward my home phone to my cell phone.
I've got a plain cell phone. Not a camera phone, just a plain cell phone. I use my phone to talk on, not to take pictures with or send text messages.
I do use the Yahoo instant messenger. I used to also have the AOL instant messenger too, but I deleted it from my computer.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: I grew up in a day and time when cell phones weren't around. While at school if my parents needed to get in touch with me, they called the office at the school and a message was relayed to me. I have several friends I grew up with and attended school, they have taught school since we graduated back in 1981. Several of them are getting ready to retire in 2001, when they reach 30 years of teaching. Why? Because of the students they have today, that's why.
I'm beyond amazed that students are allowed to bring cell phones with them to school. Heck, when I graduated from high school in 1976, the thought of a cell phone didn't even register amongst myself and my fellow classmates.
A friend of mine, last school-year his son got his cell phone confiscated by the school's administration. My buddy was irate. He went to the school and demanded the cell phone back, he told the principal he'd see to it his son didn't bring the cell phone back to school. But he didn't get the phone back, then. He had to wait until the end of the school calendar year. It was clearly spelled out in black-and-white in the student's hand book regarding cell phones at school. Students aren't permitted to have their cell phones with them during class, but they can use them between class periods and during lunch period.
We all have out thoughts and opinions, and mine is ... no student should be permitted to bring a cell phone with them inside the school building. If their parents need to contact them, they can call the school office. If students are of driving age, they can have their cell phones locked inside their vehicles for when school gets out in the afternoon.
Just wondering, what are others' opinions regarding how connected a society we're living in today?
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