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i'm quite enjoying the ads on the radio at the moment, encouraging you not to use your mobile and wait 'til you get home to make that all important call no the landline.

but all it makes me wonder is what will happen in 20/30 times. there'll be an advert encouraging you to use that old-fangled device in your pocket "the mobile phone", instead of the new way of communicating that will have been invented by then ...

geofftech | Homepage | 22.01.10 - 7:09 a.m. | #

A colleague said to me yesterday that it really wasnt that long ago that, when she was out seeing clients, she would find a phonebox and call the office to get an update.

She knew where all the phone boxes were in the area!

Now... email, texts, twitter, phone etc all in your mobile phone.

There is no escape!

Stephen | Homepage | 22.01.10 - 8:28 a.m. | #

It's only as bad as you let it be.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 22.01.10 - 9:33 a.m. | #

If a message from you makes me happy, you can use the email, even on the most spammed of my addresses, or Royal Mail, or a phone party line, telex, smoke signals, mirror telegraph, homing pigeons - it doesn't matter, I _will_ notice.

Barbara Jacob | 22.01.10 - 10:11 a.m. | #

I remember when I got my first mobile phone. I prayed that people would phone me, when I was out and about. Now not so much:)

Michael | 22.01.10 - 11:43 a.m. | #

The technology is bitter sweet these days, ok it's good that you can keep in touch with people very easily, however it's not so good when you just want to be left alone and people know when you are ignoring them.

Boiler London | Homepage | 22.01.10 - 2:15 p.m. | #

Well, I've looked at this open/blank comments box for long enough now....

B | 22.01.10 - 2:44 p.m. | #

Blue Witch is quite right. I got a BlackBerry last fall when I had tired of the nightly battle for computer time with my children. However, only my nearest and dearest know I have a BlackBerry; I wouldn't want just anyone to expect an immediate response from me. So, before I sent my first message, I removed the default format that states "Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless." Shut it off at night, don't check obsessively, and take an occasional day off; it IS only as bad as you let it be. Now if I could just persuade my 14 year-old of the benefits of communications abstinence...

Tea Girl | 25.01.10 - 12:09 a.m. | #











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