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Please rate the level of discomfort you'd experience from not having your cell phone for a week.










Posted - September 18, 2017

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  • 19942
    None.  I rarely turn it on unless I want to make a call.
      September 18, 2017 2:35 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    You're a rare bird indeed.   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 2:43 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    I know and when I heard about how easy it is to hack into any device that uses Bluetooth, I realized that my 10-year old flip phone that only makes and gets calls wouldn't be affected, I had the last laugh. :)
      September 18, 2017 4:07 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    Zero.
    I once had a cell phone that worked. Dial the mumber and the call goes through.

    Then I bought a smartphone and the day after purchace it started "a neccesary update the operating system" Then nothing happened for a couple of days and the there was a charge $100 for the connection time needed to download the 2 gigabyte update. I lost a lot of my faith in smartphones then.

    A couple of years after that a family member gave me an androind. I never mangaged to figure it out enough to reliably make a call.

    I still have my landline phone and it works. It even have this great feature of blocking 'notifications'. If people want to tell me something they have to pick up their phone and call me. It cute of a lot of spam.
      September 18, 2017 3:28 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    Sometimes the classics are classic for a reason. But a shame you had a bad smartphone experience. They're really a great convenience.
      September 18, 2017 3:31 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    For one week?  Pretty much zero to one.  I'm not a big phone person.  I rarely look at it.  I also rarely look at my emails.  When you spend most of your working life dealing with phone calls, emails, and letters, you have a tendency to tune it all out when you aren't worrying about losing a client.
      September 18, 2017 3:48 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    I assume you'd find other ways of making contact with little biscuits.   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 3:51 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    LMAO!  Full body of course.  ;-)
      September 18, 2017 5:08 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Uh yeah.  Did you notice over half the people on here don't care?  It is because they are ON HERE.  LOL

      September 18, 2017 11:13 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    We are over half the people on here. And I'm on my phone right now.   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 11:15 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    Yes.   Now we are talking about...

    THE OTHER HALF.

      September 18, 2017 11:17 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    I need a map to keep up with you.


      September 18, 2017 11:23 PM MDT
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  • 46117
    I have been in Illinois, Florida and Arizona.

    Robbery, identity theft and alcoholism


    PERFECT.

      September 18, 2017 11:29 PM MDT
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  • 5354
    But don't the phrase "state the worst at" mean that those 3 states have less of 'robbery, identity theft and alcoholism'?
    Welcome back Randy-D we have missed you This post was edited by JakobA the unAmerican. at September 25, 2017 4:22 PM MDT
      September 25, 2017 4:20 PM MDT
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  • 6126
    I use my laptop, not my phone, when I plan on being online for any length of time.  
      September 19, 2017 2:52 AM MDT
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  • 1713
    I never cared much for my phone, I only really use it on my lunch break or if I need to make an emergency call. So not much pain for me. If it was my computers then that would be different, but I managed to go without them for the week I had no electricity. I mostly just sat outside watching the lizards scamper about. They must have had a baby boom or something, they're everywhere.
      September 18, 2017 4:42 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    Someone must have taken their lizard phones away.   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 6:17 PM MDT
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  • 585
    I'd be on the moderate-severe level. I use my phone to stay in contact with much of my family since I don't live close. Most of the people I'm closest to in life have their cell phones as their only means of communication unless I see them in person... which wouldn't happen unless we communicate first. HA. I also do a lot of work on my phone. 

    I don't love this, though. :/
      September 18, 2017 5:13 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    So easy to become addicted to them!  
      September 18, 2017 6:16 PM MDT
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  • 585
    Absolutely. 
      September 18, 2017 6:58 PM MDT
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  • 2658
      September 18, 2017 6:13 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    Hmm...... how did I know that would be your answer?   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 6:16 PM MDT
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  • 2658
    You might have read that I'm mostly homebound...  Last week I canceled my AARP phone I hadn't used in years... This post was edited by Beans/SilentGeneration at September 24, 2017 6:12 PM MDT
      September 18, 2017 6:20 PM MDT
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  • 7132
    Well you just hang with us and we'll keep you entertained with our half-witted activity.   ;-)
      September 18, 2017 7:00 PM MDT
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