Edward
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Laura Chase said:In the end, it's really up to me to put away my phone, shut down Facebook, stop checking my email and so forth. So I'm very happy to have the opportunity to choose to do that - or not to do it.
And therein lies the rub. I've never understood the sheer levels of hostility expressed by so many towards mobile telephones: seems very much to me that the negative aspects they complain about are actually down to themselves. That little black box cannot possibly force you to answer it unless you choose to..... and so on.
Personally, I'm actually somewhat resentful at still having a landline, but financially and in terms of the available service speeds etc it is the only practical way as of yet for me to have broadband internet access at home. I very much look forward to the day when I can get rid of a landline entirely and go back to just a mobile. Actually, for the first several years I lived in my flat this is what I did, but the lack of home internet was a pain.