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Personally, I'm just glad that the stigma of not having a facebook account seems to be mostly gone. The looks I got whenever I said I didn't have one ranged fro

Personally, I'm just glad that the stigma of not having a facebook account seems to be mostly gone. The looks I got whenever I said I didn't have one ranged from 'what are you hiding?' to 'you must be a serial killer'.

madez 11y ago
Sadly, it is still the same with mobile phones. I regularly experience being stigmatized for not having one. But it seems to be getting better. I already met multiple others who don’t have one, either.
- wolfgke 11y ago
  Interesting to get to know another person with the same property (I also have no mobile phone and never had any - and the reason is not lack of money or that I'm a luddite). Would you tell me your personal reason(s) why you decided not to have a mobile phone?
  - madez 11y ago
    Even though later than most others in my surrounding, still, I eventually had a mobile phone. I'm very much into technology and science and there is no lack of money for a mobile phone. In fact, I do have a device people call a mobile phone, however, I don't use the cellular network. I don't even have a sim card. It's virtually a PDA. The reason for me to not use the cellular network is threefold. First, I like how one spends more time with the immediate vicinity if there is no way to digitally reach out. Second, I disagree with the widespread collection and storage of connection and location data. I feel nobody has the right to make a social graph of me or track my location. Third, and most important, I want sovereignty about the machines I own. That requires a level of openness in hardware and software which available mobile phones don't have.
- theandrewbailey 11y ago
  I had a dumb phone until this summer when the spring broke. When I told people and showed them my phone, they would stare at me and wonder "You're a techy, and you don't have a phone from this decade?"

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Personally, I'm just glad that the stigma of not having a facebook account seems to be mostly gone. The looks I got whenever I said I didn't have one ranged fro

by rpgmaker 11y ago

madez 11y ago
Sadly, it is still the same with mobile phones. I regularly experience being stigmatized for not having one. But it seems to be getting better. I already met multiple others who don’t have one, either.
- wolfgke 11y ago
  Interesting to get to know another person with the same property (I also have no mobile phone and never had any - and the reason is not lack of money or that I'm a luddite). Would you tell me your personal reason(s) why you decided not to have a mobile phone?
  - madez 11y ago
    Even though later than most others in my surrounding, still, I eventually had a mobile phone. I'm very much into technology and science and there is no lack of money for a mobile phone. In fact, I do have a device people call a mobile phone, however, I don't use the cellular network. I don't even have a sim card. It's virtually a PDA. The reason for me to not use the cellular network is threefold. First, I like how one spends more time with the immediate vicinity if there is no way to digitally reach out. Second, I disagree with the widespread collection and storage of connection and location data. I feel nobody has the right to make a social graph of me or track my location. Third, and most important, I want sovereignty about the machines I own. That requires a level of openness in hardware and software which available mobile phones don't have.
- theandrewbailey 11y ago
  I had a dumb phone until this summer when the spring broke. When I told people and showed them my phone, they would stare at me and wonder "You're a techy, and you don't have a phone from this decade?"