Can we live without mobile phone?

hello mari...yes it seems like lots of people are into 'can't live without my cell' but personally i can live without it. I try consciously to use to the minimum. Like i never carry my cell when i go to temple, church, movie or a concert. Its so annoying when the cell rings in these places. When i go to my work place of course i got to carry it. But i try and minimize the use as much as possible....

We lived without cell phones all this time, so obviously it can be done, we can live without them, we just don't want to. I have one only cause my daughter put me on her family plan so I'd have it for safety reasons and since I keep her daughter - again, safety, but seldom use it. I will call out of state on weekends when it is free, so that is the only advvnatage I have - odn't have to pay long distance fees. I lived all this time without one nad did just fine. But times change. I thought pagers were pretty stupid when they came out. I am sorry but other htan doctors and attorneys and these dealing with serious time limits and deadlines, dont' have to be that accessible. And I dont' want to be talking to someone while I am doing the grocery shopping and it is dangerous to all to be yaking on the cell while driving - so I just think it is a luxury that has gotten out of hand.

i grew up in time where cellfons are not yet a dream so i think i can live without cellphones these days but henceforth, i cannot live without computers. I do wish that there were already cellphones during the late eighties because i could have married the man i have truly loved deeply.

The mobile phone and computers are of course something that I feel that us Americans have become spoiled with. We did not have either of these wonderful equipment, years ago, and now we can't leave the house without them. I know there was a time I ran to Walmart, and I saw a great deal and my husband was not with me, well I grabbed the cell phone, only to realize that it was not in my pocketbook. I think I had a panic attack in the middle of Walmart because I did not have my cell phone. I believe that we rely on things too much, like the cell phones and computers because this is what we were sold and told that we could not live without it. Oh how true is that!

I certainly can, I know for me its a luxury not a neccessity...I have owned one for years but I rarely use it, I suppose I just keep it for an emergency, I recieve calls but I dont ring out from mine at all much...To me, its just an expensive clock...

well while it is totally handy to have, becuase you can call others while you are out and about, it is not impossible to live without it! i dont have one and i get on fine, while my daughter wishes she had one because all of her friends do!

I an live with a mobile phone. I think having mobile phone all the time is really a disturbance. We no longer have private life. Anybody can call anytime. Earlier when we were out with friends, nobody disturbed us but now it is difficult to share good times with friends too. It is a useful instrument in case of emergency but I can still survive without it. If given a choice I would keep the mobile for emergency purpose and nobody will have my mobile no.

I think it would be great to live without a mobile phone however, as we get more and more high tech I have to say I'm not sure that is possible.

I know my husband is pretty much dependent on his BlackBerry from work....although there are more people that are addicted to it higher up.

I think there needs to be more restrictions with kids and driving and the usage of cell phones.

more hands free and less talking while they are driving.

mooch

i only have a mobile phone when i am 19 years old and that is also because i am studying overseas... my parents cannot contact me easily because i am living in a dormitary... so my elder brother gives me his old mobile phone for me to use... that's how i have one... before that, i never have a mobile phone and i am very fine with it... i think the world has changed so much now... i can see even a child as young as 7 holding a mobile phone and bring it to school... for me, i see mobile phone now as a necessity but crucial... i can still live without it... sometimes, i even purposely leave it at home when i don't want to be disturbed...

hi, i think that its all very relative because in the past people didnt had a mobile phone and they had no idea that such thing was possible(to speak with people around the world) but now adays people became dependant of the new technologies and i think that now that we have these kind of technologies people are really addicted to this and cant live without it.