04-17-2012, 12:53 PM
nachoman Wrote:I'm still not in the "cell phone" age. If I'm not at work or at home or at the local pub. I don't want to be bothered!
I agree with Kevin: while I do have a cellphone, it's "off" unless I need to use it. I don't need to be contacted by anyone for any reason and seldom need to contact anyone else. If your employer "gives" you a cellphone, it's simply a means of requiring you to put in unpaid extra time when it rings outside of your normal working hours.
I also own a GPS - this can be a useful item, but is certainly not infallible. It also, like a cellphone, allows you to be "tracked", which, to me, smacks too much of "big brother": innocuous now perhaps, but the potential for abuse is certainly there. The more of these technical innovations that I see, the more that I realise that their main function is to generate sales for the manufacturers and the service providers and consumers seem to willingly buy into it.
I'm inching towards disconnecting from what little of it involves my participation.
Wayne

