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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'
by 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 agoEven 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.