What the heck is with this trend?

[Maestro]

These earpieces for your cell phone...I mean I can understand wearing one in the car, but walking around a store with one of these on and talking to what seems like yourself is, well, wierd to me. People look like some sort of cyborg. But of course I don't even own a cell phone. I just don't understand what the urgency is. I see so many of these that you can't tell me it is because they are expecting some sort of urgent call. If all these people are, then there are people a lot more important than me in the world. I guess I still like the days when phone conversations were done in the office or at home in private.

[TimeChaser]

1. Eh, I see them a lot on campus

When some people like to keep a hand free to open door and stuff.

[Maestro]

3. Are they so popular that they can't wait to talk to their friends

at another time or do they have to talk on the phone in between classes? :shrug:

[tjdee]

5. Basically, yes.

Self-editing is on a decline.

[Radio_Lady]

8. My Vietnamese manicurist has one! It looks pretty chic on her!

[Maestro]

9. And she uses it at work?

That is fine. I have no problems with that. Obviously she needs a way to answer the phone since her hands are obviously busy.

[Radio_Lady]

20. She does get calls at work. She's speaking a language I don't

understand, so I don't know if they are work related. She had an automobile accident and she has a child. I know she speaks with her lawyer and her mother.

[wildeyed]

2. I thought maybe it was some sort of high tech hearing aid.

Then I noticed that the person was also talking to himself. Disturbing.

I am waiting until it can be implanted directly into my head.

[datasuspect]

4. remember in 1997

and they had those god awful nokia/qualcomm huge phones?

like this?



or even before that they had these:




people would carry these around and probably felt pretty important . . . this was when everyone didn't have one.

the cyborg ear thing is the latest incarnation of that desire to be noticed.

[Radio_Lady]

6. These look so huge and clunky -- you still see them in vintage movies!

[Sacajawea]

32. "Wall Street." Michael Douglas. Walking on the beach talking on a

giant klunker! Positively medieval!

[Maestro]

7. I think you are right.

But someone needs to tell them they look stupid. You know, I could even understand a stock broker on the floor of the stock exchange with one of these or a technical support agent, etc..., but walking around Costco or Target blathering on about whatever. It seems pretentious and rude.

[Radio_Lady]

10. Do you ever see people talking to themselves and think they're nuts?

Then you see the "headgear" and you realize they're on the phone.

Pretty weird.

[datasuspect]

11. it IS pretentious and rude

and i think i'm crazy . . .


don't even get me started about people who WEAR a fucking phone like a fashion accessory.

EVERYONE HAS A CELL PHONE NOWADAYS PEOPLE!!!!


uggh.

[Pithlet]

27. Going through some things I found an old cell phone

from 98 or 99. It seemed so huge, but I remember when I thought it was tiny.

[lady raven]

12. I LOOOOVE my bluetooth headset

But I don't walk around in public places talking on it. I mainly use it when I'm on a long call or when I'm in the car.

[Maestro]

15. Perfectly reasonable

I salute you.

[lady raven]

33. Wow- I don't think I've ever been saluted before.

I'm honored :-)

[texanwitch]

13. The earpieces remind me of Star Trek,, the classic.

[obxhead]

14. If you use a cell all the time they are awesome...

Your hands are free to do other things and you can hear the other person much better.

[Maestro]

17. Agreed

But my point is that I see people walking in public, grocery store, post office, pharmacy with these things on just having a conversation as if no one else is around. I just want to scream, "Just wait until you get at home or go somewhere private!"

[datasuspect]

19. exactly

i use the red button a lot when in public

not every telephone call is important.

[Seabiscuit]

30. I'm wishing for a "red button" that will disable every cell phone in the

grocery store or parking lot.

Now THAT's a "red button" I'd be using a lot.

I'd even pay someone a fortune to invent a "red button" that would knock out every cell phone in the county. Just for a day. Of protest. :)

[obxhead]

21. Why?

why does it seem so abnormal. You go shopping with friends or family from time to time and I'm sure you have conversations with them while doing it.

If I get a call from a friend while in a store I'll answer it. If you can chat person to person in a store, then I reserve the right to chat with a person on a phone in a store.

[Maestro]

23. I personally can't compare face to face conversations

in a store with the impersonal nature of a phone call. It still seems pretentiouos to me especially when the person in question actually has friends with them or when the person is checking out at the store. Hang up for Christ sakes!

[obxhead]

25. I'm 100's of miles away from most of my family and friends...

We all seem to be on different schedules and communicating can be difficult at best. My impersonal phone calls are all we get now.

I am so very sorry if my behavior doesn't fit into your ideal little world.

[Maestro]

29. Apology accepted -nt

[Scout1071]

31. It's a must with my PDA phone. Can hear much better. n/t

[datasuspect]

16. if they had a model that looked like a hissing roach

i'd buy one

[Maestro]

18. I might have to agree.

:)

[merh]

22. It reminds me of Uhura on Star Trek

They drive me nutts.

[Maestro]

35. That is funny!

:rofl: But at least she had a reason. She had to gather that info for Kirk!

[merh]

36. I never looked at it that way, you are right.

She had to have her hands free to operate the computer and get that info for Kirk.

The folks walking around town with those things on their ears are just annoying.

And for the record --

To all those folks who carry on conversations on their cell phones while waiting in the check out line -- "I DON'T WANT TO KNOW YOUR BUSINESS" Cut it out. :argh:


Thank you, I feel better now.

[StaggerLee]

24. What bothers me most

Is that you can't say hello to most people on the street anymore because they are usually on a phonecall.

I miss that.

:(

[asthmaticeog]

26. Keeping your cell phone away from your head is a good idea, actually.

That whole brain-cancer thing? Not so likely if you wear a headset and keep the phone in your coat pocket.

But I agree, it does make people look like crazy talkers.

[datasuspect]

28. keep them in the car when refueling

they've been known to ignite gasoline vapor . . .

ouch!

[bigwillq]

34. I leave mine in if

I have to run into the store quick. The one I have, it's such a pain in the ass to get in and out so if I know I'm going to be quick I leave it in. I have saw ears and the ear piece is way too big. When it goes in, it ain't coming out until I know I won't be needing it for awhile.