What's Happening With Cell Phones

Do you really need that cell phone

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Cell phones, do you really want to be available to contact 100% of the time?

Do you really want to be available all the time, whilst its true the cell phone market is massive, how annoying is it when your in the middle of something important and that annoying ringtone goes off. Even in the middle of the night there is no escape, many a time Ive been awaken by a friend or colleague in the wee small hours who thought it was important to tell me something after too many beers :-) . A famous person once said that the more available you make yourself; the more available everyone will expect you to be. On the other hand dare you turn your phone off in case you miss that urgent call, maybe someone close to you is ill in the night and you have turned off your cell, i personally remember missing a friends call when she was seriously ill, and i still had to take her to hospital the next day.

Today in this modern society, we live in cell phones are everywhere we see people talking on them anywhere from the public rest room to a nightclub. Even for business use it means there is no escape your colleagues can get hold of you anywhere and everywhere.  However, if you make yourself available all the time, you created your own nightmare.

You will see people talking on there cell loudly and disturbs people nearby in restaurants and even in offices.  There is also the annoying free ringtones that people have on there phones, but we do need someway to distinguish your cell from everyone else’s, I am sure by now, once or twice in a meeting you will notice that when a cell phone rings, almost everyone around will immediately look for their cell phones not knowing if its theres or not. 

It may help people who use cell phones to follow certain degree of etiquette with respect to the use of cell phones specially in places where you may seem rude if you use or even when your cell phone rings. Places of worship, meetings and presentations the very least you should do is put your cell on silent , but even here you are still available as you haven’t actually turned the phone off.  However, if you are waiting for terribly important call, you may use the vibrate mode of your cell phone to alert you when a call is in-coming and leave the meeting if you need to answer the call.You may want to inform the possible caller that you are in a meeting.

When traveling -board an aircraft, you will be required to turn off your cell phone.  This is because electronics devices may interfere with the aircraft’s avionics.  Thus, it is a requirement to turn of your phone for safety reasons.  However, for extremely long flights, airline companies allow cell phone usage at a certain time, but is anything really that important that it cant wait until the end of the flight ,  but if you really need to make a phone call, use this time allotted if necessary.

Cell phones have become to be a necessity nowadays, that is why most people use it and cell phone manufacturers have continuously developed smaller, more robust phones with bigger and better features, is it only a matter of time before someone develops a chip that implants into your head , then there really will be no escape

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