Wired offers 10 reasons to throw your cellphone away.
- It makes your life more complicated
- It’s horribly expensive
- It enslaves you to a one-sided contract
- It makes you perpetually available
- It is boring
- It must constantly be recharged
- It knows where you are
- It encourages stupid people to become a public menace
- Ubiquitous pleather accessory shops
- It turns you into a public annoyance – Hell is other people’s ringtones.
I’ve gotten to where I’m using the actual phone part of my cellphone less and less. I often leave it in the car or at home whenever I don’t think I’ll need it. It’s still a security blanket in some regards. But I do love the convenience of sending prayer requests or other text messages to a number of people all at once without having to pick up the phone over and over again to pass along a message.
What about you? Could you drop your cellphone and move back “into the stone age?”
What if we just all went to two way pagers? Could you live with that?
Thanks to Lifehacker for the tip.
