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"I don't particularly feel I need my mobile, but my friends consider it unfriendly not to be at their beck and call" I didn't own a wireless phone in 2008 and
by dionidium 18y ago
"I don't particularly feel I need my mobile, but my friends consider it unfriendly not to be at their beck and call"
I didn't own a wireless phone in 2008 and noticed the same thing. For example, nobody wants to arrange to meet at a specific place/time for a public event; they want you to call when you get there and walk toward them pointing out landmarks that betray your location.
I already knew that this is how meeting arrangements are now handled; what I didn't expect is that it's now considered rude to require a more specific commitment.
- decode 18y agoProbably around 2004 I started noticing that many young people had forgotten (or never learned) how to arrange a meeting without a mobile phone. Several times I had conversations like this: "Just call me when you get there." "I don't have a phone." "Umm... so what do we do?" I had to explain that we needed to agree on a time and exact location to meet. It was very strange, as I hadn't had this problem in the previous decade when I was meeting people.