Is mobile phone indispensable for you?

[Derek]

No, I hate having this thing with me at all times and I often just put it on silent or turn it off. Sometimes I free myself from the chains of society and leave my cell at home, on purpose. I remember the days I could go out and I didn't have a care in the world of who was looking for me. I still don't care who's looking for me. I don't listen to 1/2 of my voice mails or even read my text messages, because I just don't want people to think that I'm always available for them. I go on vacations and I only keep my phone in my pocket just in case of an emergency and it's off (meaning I don't care what anyone else in the world is doing). I love not using my cell and I used to just watch it light up from calls, but I didn't answer them and I'd call them back if I was interested in talking to them. The day that cell phones became 'mainstream' was the day our private lives (privacy) took a turn for the worse. I hate Facebook and Twitter because I don't want people to check up on me, not that I'd ever post anything. I don't see why some people are so 'big headed' they think that others care if they just say 'Usher' get out of a car, Woooo Hoooooooo! Yeah, right. I don't think so.

My life would be so much better and I'd be surprised because my friends would actually just stop in, without calling. Or I could send my girlfriend flowers and she wouldn't be able to text me or call me. I'd get to wait and see her when she got home. The cell phone has kind of killed some things that could've been special. It's impersonal, annoying and rude with people texting, talking and 'googling' in restaurants, on trains and everywhere else. I've set up construction cones and caution tape to caution of an potentially dangerous area just to have some idiot using a cell phone walk into the caution tape like he/she just finished a marathon race, taking the tape with them.

I hate my cell phone and everyone else's cell phone.