Moms and technology...
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
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When my dad first gave my Gran a mobile phone she phoned him off her landline a few days later to say she needed a new one because the battery had run out.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
Nice. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
She turns it off like it's a regular phone
I don't even know what that means. What "regular phone" has an off switch?
You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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You're being too literal in your interpretation. Think about it. Regular phones have the tendency to not always be available by virtue of them being stationary. So, when you call one the person may or may not be around to answer. Thus, cell phones were invented to avoid this. However, by turning off your cell, you essentially have the same net effect as the olden days.
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded! :)
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I don't carry mine around unless I know someone is going to call which is rare, so my kids are always asking me why I don't answer my phone. I'm retired not retarded! :)
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Jeremy Falcon
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Oh you old folks just don't understand joys of being constantly tethered to an electronic collar.
Jeremy Falcon
I enjoy hiking deep into the woods where there is no coverage; no internet, no cell towers, you can't hear anything but the birds...but yeah it's an old foggy thing. :)
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Because they don't stay with us and like to explore on their own.
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It seems AT&T does that[^] I think most carriers do something like this. It just isn't all that well publicized.
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Verizon charges you a quarter. Like an old time phone call!
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
Perhaps she thinks she continues to get charged as long as it's on. Back in ancient times, long distance calls being charged by the minute was a big thing and people worried about how long they talked.
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
Turned off and ignored in her purse that dumbphone she has will go months between charges. :cool:
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I know that. My solution is to send her an SMS to "land line" first to tell her to Switch the cell on. I don't know whether it is the same in other countries, but in .ch a SMS send to land line will be delivered... in the way a synthesized voice does read it :)
The first time I got an SMS voice message on my landline it was a female voice saying "Hi Dad, I'm going to be late - please can you come and pick me up". The confusion was that I did not have any daughters. So, I asked my son who had just arrived home and he said it was a text message that he had sent an hour ago, but had only just arrived.
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The first time I got an SMS voice message on my landline it was a female voice saying "Hi Dad, I'm going to be late - please can you come and pick me up". The confusion was that I did not have any daughters. So, I asked my son who had just arrived home and he said it was a text message that he had sent an hour ago, but had only just arrived.
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My parents use their cell phone only when they're out. I never call it unless they're visiting us.
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Does anyone else go through this... my mother never keeps her cell phone on. She turns it off like it's a regular phone and when I want to call her I have to call the old land line first and tell her to turn her cell phone on. Then I can call that. So tell me, does anyone else go through this?
Jeremy Falcon
Moms and people who don't need to check facebook 20 times an hour turn their phones off so they can work uninterrupted. It turns out that they don't miss out much if you have to wait to share the latest cat picture off the internet. They keep a cat for that. They get their news curated at 6 pm, and it's still fresh, even though you heard about it at 13:46. They exchange long letters (perhaps by email), rather than 140-character tweets. It's naive, as well as insensitive, to expect all people to take up the same technology you do and use it in the same way. That doesn't make them "moms". You need to give your mom an actual reason to have their phone on. Baby pictures will usually do the trick, if you're motivated enough to help them adopt the technology. Baby pictures can turn even grandma into a technology adopter.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
My parents use their cell phone only when they're out. I never call it unless they're visiting us.
?? - if they are visiting you, why don't you just talk directly to him/her/them?
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