Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At my job, it is now a status symbol to NOT carry a cell phone. It has come to mean that you are too important to be bothered with incessant phone calls, and that there is an underling who will contact you in an emergency. Sam S Daniel Ridings wrote: > 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