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Qatsi64
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09 Mar 2011, 5:25 pm

I dislike how they make people act. I know it is a generational thing, but loud talking and ignoring companions is rude. I've priced the devices that will hang up cell phones, and if I spent more time in public, I'd buy one and use it. People driving while on the phone make me very angry.

I don't leave the house much, so they aren't much use to me. I also don't have friends, so nobody to text back and forth. I understand the appeal, they just don't do anything for me.

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09 Mar 2011, 5:38 pm

My (lack of) social life means that I've never been required to use a mobile phone. It is quite embarassing on the rare occasions when someone asks me for a phone number and I say that I don't have one. But in any case, I've never needed nor wanted one, though recently I've come into contact with more people in which having a phone would be handy, so I can see its benefits.

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09 Mar 2011, 5:53 pm

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I know, speaking into it is a filthy habit I'm trying to get out of. :oops:

Text more than speech, definitely.

Well ... not if you use a speech to text app and send it out that way. Then the person on the other end can use speech synthesis to convert the text to voice.

Uh.

Maybe that would be just like a regular phone.

Never mind.

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09 Mar 2011, 5:56 pm

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I actually find the act of texting repellent. Not just the fiddliness, the butchery of the English language and the sheer time inefficiency of pressing tiny buttons to painstakingly tap out one sentence. No, I find it ugly to watch. If I send a text in public, it feels like I'm gobbing on the street, or something.

When I see people who are constantly texting, which is most people these days, I feel sad - especially on my commute. I'm always cheered up by seeing someone who walks down the street lost in their thoughts or staring at the buildings as they pass. Why must people always be constantly communicating with each other? I like to use my commute to worry about my own private thoughts and watch the whole world waking up and becoming productive. I don't like to sit around in the morning and have inane conversations in butchered English on a tiny screen whilst getting RSI...that's what work is for!

I text rather frequently...in grammatically correct, properly spelled English.

The keyboard's cramped, but pretty usable. Not painstaking, although my typing speed is much slower.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:10 pm

Verdandi wrote:

puddingmouse wrote:

I text rather frequently...in grammatically correct, properly spelled English.

The keyboard's cramped, but pretty usable. Not painstaking, although my typing speed is much slower.

Maybe it's my dyspraxia, or maybe my phone has a secret time dilation feature, but it seems to go on forever and hurt my hand when I write a text. I know this is how people communicate these days, but I never got with the programme as regards texting.

I always write standard English in a text and then I get a reply in txt spk. It makes feel like I've just been sworn at for holding a door open for someone.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:12 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

Maybe it's my dyspraxia, or maybe my phone has a secret time-dilation feature, but it seems to go on forever and hurt my hands when I write a text.

I can sympathize. This is what handwriting is like for me.

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I always write standard English in a text and then I get a reply in txt spk. It makes feel like I've just been sworn at for holding a door open for someone.

Ah, yeah. So far I haven't received a lot of this. I used to really dislike it a lot more, but I'm a bit more okay with it now. It still looks really weird to me, and I am not comfortable with it.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:15 pm

Verdandi wrote:

puddingmouse wrote:

Maybe it's my dyspraxia, or maybe my phone has a secret time-dilation feature, but it seems to go on forever and hurt my hands when I write a text.

I can sympathize. This is what handwriting is like for me.

I hate writing with pens! It's the computer keyboard whenever possible for me.

I can produce a doctor's scrawl with a pen, but anything else hurts my hand. Then people look at my handwriting like I did it on purpose . :cry:

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09 Mar 2011, 6:28 pm

Verdandi wrote:

I text rather frequently...in grammatically correct, properly spelled English.

Absolutely. None of that mangled, abbreviated nonsense here either. (my pet pedant won't allow it!)

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The keyboard's cramped, but pretty usable. Not painstaking, although my typing speed is much slower.

Predictive text helps with the speed too.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:36 pm

Qatsi64 wrote:

I dislike how they make people act.

I used to have one house "guest" who would have his silent phone rumble in his pocket when he got a call. Every time I was mid sentence conversing with him, he would take the phone out and start speaking to the caller. He didn't even have the manners to say "wait a sec, my phones ringing". Damn rude!.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:42 pm

I feel more comfortable on cell phones than house phones for some reason. I am afraid of being alone without my cell phone, pay phones are hard to find and don't cooperate with me. I don't like asking strangers if I can use their cell phones.

I HAVE had to use my cell phone in an emergency before, and my parents actually don't let me go out alone without a cell phone.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:42 pm

puddingmouse wrote:

Oh yeah. My handwriting is at least readable most of the time, or so people tell me. And the pain, after like two sentences is ridiculous. When I had to fill out my SSI function report the pain spread up both arms.

Cornflake wrote:

I text rather frequently...in grammatically correct, properly spelled English.

Absolutely. None of that mangled, abbreviated nonsense here either. (my pet pedant won't allow it!)

Predictive text helps with the speed too.[/quote]

I can read it but I can't bring myself to write it. I actually use like...three or four? netspeak acronyms in a particular social context and nowhere else, but this is a really hard limit and I avoid them where I can.

Sadly, I have a cheap phone that does not have predictive text. However, it has a nice physical keyboard that is the full length of the phone (slides out) which makes things doable. I actually picked up typing with my thumbs faster than I expected.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:42 pm

Densha wrote:

Qatsi64 wrote:

I dislike how they make people act.

For some people the mobile phone is like a part of their body. A phone call is like sneeze for them, i.e. very hard to suppress.

I have a friend who is like that. I'm pretty estranged from her now because she is technophobic about the Internet and I don't like texting. We're both too stubborn to adapt.

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09 Mar 2011, 6:50 pm

ocdgirl123 wrote:

I feel more comfortable on cell phones than house phones for some reason. I am afraid of being alone without my cell phone.

I love my house phone. It makes me feel like a grown up just having my own landline, which shows how immature I really am. :lol:

It's red, so I like to imagine it's the hotline from Dr. Strangelove. I want one of those old-fashioned red telephones with the dialling-wheel, but you can only use touch-tone phones these days. Or I'd have a Dali lobster phone.

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09 Mar 2011, 7:06 pm

I absolutely hate mobile phones. Everywhere I look, everyone is standing, walking, bent right over just texting texting texting texting texting texting texting texting texting aaaaaaARGGGHJJFEDFIDJIGDFGO!! !! !! !! ! Sorry, I had an outburst there. It just annoys me so much, though.

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09 Mar 2011, 7:14 pm

Densha wrote:

Qatsi64 wrote:

I dislike how they make people act.

My nephew has done this while playing a card game with me, I was really about ready to throw his phone outside.

I hate that stuff, people acting like phone is more important than face to face. I am completely the opposite.

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09 Mar 2011, 7:19 pm

I have a smartphone (WebOS Palm Pre) and I rely on it as a PDA to replace my beloved Palm TX which kept me organized and able to have convenient access to the internet wherever I was without having to always lug my netbook or laptop with me.

Among other uses, I use Evernote on it to easily access/update notes and lists across all my computers. I also find the RSS feed reader and GPS features handy. One thing I really love to do is comparison shop on my phone when I'm in stores to make sure I'm getting the best deal I can/ see customer product reviews.

I've also chucked my landline and my alarm clock. I use a Pomodoro timer app to keep me focused when I'm working, yet help me remember to eat, feed the dog, etc. when I'm hyperfocused.

Oddly enough, I only make/get 2 non-business calls a week (not counting my husband) and I rarely text, although I often e-mail from my phone.

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