Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Just a confirmation from my side of the Atlantic. Just about everyone between the ages of 45 and 12 has a cell phone. In the age group between 25 and 12 I don't think they will get a land line which will be really bad news to all the grandparents depending on the Bells for retirement. In fact, an acquaintance was in real trouble when he lost his company cell phone when he was Riffed out as it was his only phone and all his family had only that means of contacting him. As a status symbol, when the local Drug Lords have three and four cells and the Pimps have four or five, I don't think status is the operative word. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:58 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: mobile phones (WAS: Film is not dead!) I'm just like Nathan. In fact, I didn't even bother getting a land-line for my Oslo address. I can be in Africa, anywhere in Europe or even the places I go to in the US (Chicago, midwest area) and people can always call me on the same number. I would say that around 80 - 90% of all 15-year-olds in Sweden and probably Norway too have cell-phones. It's just the way they communicate now. When that many have one, there's no status to it at all. Daniel On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Nathan Wajsman wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Usually I agree with your comments, but here I must say that at least on > my side of the Atlantic, having a mobile phone ceased to be a status > symbol of any kind long ago. It is simply an indispensable part of > personal life for hundreds of millions of people. I don't even give out > my fixed phone number anymore (home or office); most of the time when > people want to call me, they do not even know which country I am in :-) > > Nathan > > Peter Klein wrote: > > > In this respect "digital" joins things like cell phones, PDAs, fax > > machines, PCs, Cabbage Patch dolls, hula hoops and oat bran as Stuff That > > All With-It People Gotta Have. > > > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > e-mail: n.wajsman@chello.nl > Mobile: +31 630 868 671 > > Photo site: http://www.wajsmanphoto.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html