December 26, 2007

  • Connecting?

    cell phone

    I'm all for connecting with others. I really am. But I confess to struggling with the whole issue of cell phones. I love the convenience, but I've set myself some rules with them. Here are my rules:

    1. Don't talk on them in a very public place unless you absolutely have to.
    2. Screen your calls. In other words, don't take the call unless you have to if you are with someone else.
    3. Text messages are the same as taking the call. See rule #2.
    4. Set it on silent during church or work or whatever.

    I've just noticed it so much lately. I was recently doing counseling with a teen. I was astounded to have them text during session.

    I spent yesterday at a friend's house. At one point we played a card game called Wizard. One person got 2 calls in a row during the game. Everyone was waiting on him to play. I had started the round and played the winning card from the beginning. There wasn't a need to follow suit in this hand. After a couple of minutes, I did the calculations and determined that it didn't matter what he played. I confess to snatching one of his cards and playing it for him so that we could move on rather than listening to a onesided conversation!

    What are your rules for cell phone use? It just seems that more and more cell phones get in the way of connecting with the people you are face to face with!

     

Comments (3)

  • I had someone texting once when I was trying to interview him for a job and ANOTHER time someone picked up their cell phone and started chatting during a staff meeting! RUDE!

  • Absolutely right!  I hate cell phone use in public.  I hate it when the poor driver in the car in front of me turns out to be talking on a cell.  I hate when phones go off in meetings.  I hate listening to loud people conversing on the phone in stores or airports.  The worst are in-the-ear phones.  Cell phones are breeding an attitude that wherever one is one can do whatever one wants, regardless of how it affects the people around.  We should start calling them SELF-phones.

  • I gotta put in my two cents of course. I never had a cell phone until this past summer, My husband wanted me to have one when I traveled in the car going up to the cabin. I have had to use it in emergencies. I do not like to just chat on my cell phone, (who can afford all those minutes?), and I agree about turning off the phone in church, the doctors office, business meetings, etc. Just how did our elder generation survive without cell phone anyway? Remember simplier times of playing outside, because there was no alternative? We did not have a phone line at all, or a t.v. at the cabin in the summer, and you had better be creative,and loving on rainy days. SOME parents today enable their children way too much. They have cell phones, i-pods, etc,. I HAD to maintain a certain grade point average, and hold down a job in high-school. Times, sadly are changing for a bunch of others.

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