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yes i used to have it...now i am without a phone at all!
posted by
Annicita
on February 27, 2014 at 3:09 AM
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I absolutely will not use these things around others. Human communication is always best. I do text rather than talk most of the time. Some people never want to stop. People look like clowns at the grocery or anywhere of business with a phone glued to their ear. 
posted by
Justi
on February 25, 2014 at 9:42 AM
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I get several email newsletters
because I am disappointed when I don't get email
posted by
jollyjeff
on February 24, 2014 at 5:23 PM
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TAPS
Okay, I do have one of those things, but I'm not on it all day. I check the weather forecast, make and receive a few calls (but no more than before when my cell phone wasn't 'smart') and I never text! All my friends and family know not to text me 'cause it's futile - I won't respond...
posted by
Nautikos
on February 24, 2014 at 4:11 PM
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I think I am also suffering from it .
posted by
afzal50
on February 21, 2014 at 11:46 PM
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It is a plague of sorts, that's for sure! There's no known cure, and it doesn't appear to be going anywhere any time soon! Ridiculous . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on February 21, 2014 at 5:13 AM
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It won't surprise me when children are implanted with phone technology
at birth and we all walk around with glazed eyes listening and talking to someone not there, walking through the real scene all distracted and half-aware. I used to see delusional people on the streets of Seattle from time to time, talking to imaginary friends or enemies. Now all they need to do is carry a cell phone to be accepted as perfectly normal. I detest cell phones and consider it rude when someone at the table shuts off our conversation to text or talk to someone else. Where's the time to think and regroup?
posted by
Pat_B
on February 21, 2014 at 4:37 AM
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I wonder how it will develop Taps in twenty years time we will probably think 'goodness once we carried those things around with us.'
posted by
C_C_T
on February 20, 2014 at 11:59 PM
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We got ourselves a pandemic.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on February 20, 2014 at 5:06 PM
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Remember when those things were big as a shoe, and sat in
a box like... well, a shoe box?
posted by
Ciel
on February 20, 2014 at 3:47 PM
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I remember back when cell or mobile phones as we called them in Australia ...came into use. A men next to me in a food hall had his device sitting next to him on the bench while he ate...everynow and then he would pick it up and start talking...that ws until it rang while he had it to his ear talking into it. He left when I fell off my stool laughing ...I think I probably wet my pants.
posted by
Kabu
on February 20, 2014 at 3:29 PM
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Great post, love the cartoon.
posted by
UtahJay
on February 20, 2014 at 2:35 PM
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