Cell Phones - Survival of the Fittest

[cbdo2007]

[Motown_Johnny]

1. I suppose this makes me unfit

sorry, but I almost never use my home phone anymore.

No, I don't worry about the cancer danger much.... a little but not much.

[azmouse]

2. It would do people a lot of good to put down the phone

and pay attention to what is happening around them.

I never understood the attraction of constantly talking on the phone.

[cbdo2007]

4. You make an excellent point...

Besides the cancer risk, which is a lack of interaction with people and things around them. People nowadays just walk/drive around like zombies talking on their phones. Less people holding doors for other people, talking to their kids less, not to mention also the safety issues.

I can't count the number of times in the past year when I've been in the car with an acquaintance or at dinner with business associates and they spend the whole time on their phone rather than interacting with those of us in the group.

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. YES! People walk about like zombies!

[zonkers]

13. It is an epidemic responsible for many car accidents, pedestrian & cyclist injuries.

[imdjh]

16. Those of us who are totally hip, don't even have old fashioned phones in the house anymore. nt

[endless october]

3. in the 80s, microwave ovens were going to kill us all.

[cbdo2007]

5. I don't personally know anyone who have gotten tumors from microwave ovens.

Yet I know multiple people who's brain tumors are directly attributed to their cell phone use.

[TheWraith]

12. That's not backed up by scientific research.

There's no provable link between cell phones and brain cancer.

[gatorboy]

8. I'm sure scientific studies have come a long ways in over 20 years time.

Neither my wife nor I own a cell phone so I guess we'll be doing our own version of Adam and Eve before you know it. :)

[unpossibles]

14. and a hundred years ago, people were convinced that the telegraph would ruin the English language

seriously.

That said, I don't use my phone very much, but I do keep it in my pocket, which some say is a bad idea too.

[imdjh]

19. I have a great aunt named Dot.

[Tesha]

20. Next thing we know, you'll be telling us "She's always dashing around!" (NT)

[imdjh]

18. Don't forget living "too close" to power lines or telephone poles.

Of course, a cynic might think that those people in the historic district complaining about the proximity of the power pole to their bedroom were simply people who had paid way too much money for a tiny old house that was built for the family of a ditch digger, to enhance the look of the 'hood by burying the utilities at tremendous public expense rather than a front footage assessment.

[Grown2Hate]

6. I HATE being on the phone (HATE IT), but I am on my cell phone probably

4-5 hours a DAY for work. There isn't much I can do about it. :(

[gatorboy]

9. How did you get work done before the use of cell phones?

[Grown2Hate]

17. I wasn't in this field that long ago, so I really don't know. Working construction,

schedules and dates change every MINUTE, so without phones I'm not sure how anything would get done in a timely manner. When I'm running jobs in Southern California, Northern California, Sierra Vista, Las Vegas, Bullhead City, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Mesa, Tucson (and on and on), it's impossible to get anything done without a whole lot of talking on the phone. I use the office phone as much as possible, but most of the time I'm not in the office.

[cbdo2007]

10. Make sure you use a head set and don't keep the phone in your lap.

That will help but it is difficulty nowadays also with so many businesses and the convenience factor. My wife uses hers a lot during the day for work as well but heck...what can you do? :shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

7. I'm most concerned about kids. Mine and everyone else's--they have

these things attached to them 24/7. What will a lifetime of exposure do?

[Richard D]

11. I've decided . . .

. . . to keep it off most of the time and then to only turn it on when I'm using it and then only with a bluetooth or wired headset.

[seabeyond]

21. my kids are 12 and 14. neither have cells, nor will i get them.

they are about the only ones without. i will wait to see how a developing brain does with the cell. will give the kids a handful of more years, before they have it up against there head continually....

i carry a cell, mostly shut off. away from body. and use it seldom. works for me

hubby uses all the time for work.

life