Cell phone ubiquity

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-30-1999
Cell phone ubiquity
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Mon, 11-26-2007 - 11:38am

Is everyone assumed to have a cell phone now? Can a person function as a socialable and business-savvy individual without one?

I signed up for an on-line job fair (that's what they called it) with a large company a few weeks ago. When signing up, it asked for name, address, email. OK. Then it asked for cell phone number. Not phone number. Cell phone. Although I have a cell, I put in NONE, just to spite them. Do they assume all applicants have a cell phone?

There's an online dating match-up service called CrazyBlindDate (it's only in a few cities). To sign up, you had to give your cell phone number. Name and email, too, which I understand. But cell phone? To verify, they sent you a text message on your phone. You had to put the text message verification word into their website to sign up. Can't use their system without a cell phone. I reluctantly followed their instructions even while feeling sorry for people without cell phones.

My employer pays for my cell. When I leave my job, I lose the phone, and I doubt I will get another cell. I hardly ever use it as it is.

I saw a political blogger ridicule a candidate's campaign in Iowa by pointing out that the campaign director just got a Blackberry this month! This was presented as a sign of how lame this campaign was. Their campaign director is so far behind the times he didn't get a Blackberry until Nov 2007!

I'm not sure I want out society to become one where everyone is assumed to have a cell phone.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 01-26-2006
In reply to: beren
Tue, 11-27-2007 - 9:40am
This has to be a generational thing.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-01-2005
In reply to: beren
Tue, 11-27-2007 - 10:29am

I have a cell phone for two reasons...long distance phone calls and a safety net.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-17-2007
In reply to: beren
Thu, 11-29-2007 - 11:20am

"Exploding mobile kills 33 year old S.Korean man."

The man's body was found with a molten cell phone stuck to his face! I guess poetic justice for those he was annoying :)

Google News search "exploding mobile"

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