do you still use your phone to make calls?

when my mom dies - which i hope never happens ...then  i doubt ill have a phone


everyone i know uses email or facebook - plus i have a cell phone - so i think the land line will go

I recently got a land line, but only because the combined package Internet + phone was cheaper than just getting Internet.

I usually use my cellphone, and typically I just send e-mails with it. Calling is very rare, although the last few weeks I had some trouble with the Internet so I had to make a lot of calls to get that fixed; that's something I still prefer to do by phone, because you know they're helping you then and there. If you send an e-mail, no telling when they'll get to it.

Ion Todirel said:

@Jamie, sorry: phone as in phone, cell phone or whatever, anything used to make calls, that's what I meant, I should have used a better title, like "do you still use your phone to make calls" or something...

id LOVE to have no phones.  period.  Count me in.... so long as i can keep the internet on iphone.. not using the phone part

jamie said:

when my mom dies - which i hope never happens ...then  i doubt ill have a phone


everyone i know uses email or facebook - plus i have a cell phone - so i think the land line will go

Ditto.

Its a case of legacy technology. I get free calls after 6 and free evening and weekend calls which is helpful if you live in a house with anyone of an ovarian disposition.

Women are generally the people that are lining phone companies pockets as they can talk for 2 hours and not mention a single fact. Phones are also useful for those with a wife and female children. Kids just love to yack so you can tell them to use their cell phone minutes up wisely as parental control is essential. The rest of the time they can use the family phone.

My landline phone rings all the time,

always for my wife

no one loves me,..

As for my cell phone,...

I try not to use it as much,.. As answering the phone means more work,..

The only reason that I have a landline is because I got a discount from my cable/internet/phone provider for buying the complete package.

The discounted package price costs less with a phone, than any package that didn't include it.

So basically, I save pay less for cable and internet because I have a phone, weird.

However, I never use it. The only people that ever call it are bill collectors looking for someone else.
I've been getting calls for Patricia Suber (no idea who this woman is, but she owes alot of people money) for like 4 years now, so annoying.

vesuvius said:

jamie said:

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Ditto.

Its a case of legacy technology. I get free calls after 6 and free evening and weekend calls which is helpful if you live in a house with anyone of an ovarian disposition.

Women are generally the people that are lining phone companies pockets as they can talk for 2 hours and not mention a single fact. Phones are also useful for those with a wife and female children. Kids just love to yack so you can tell them to use their cell phone minutes up wisely as parental control is essential. The rest of the time they can use the family phone.

"Women are generally the people that are lining phone companies pockets as they can talk for 2 hours and not mention a single fact."

Don't be fooled, all that chattering is just error correction.

Evil SEO said:

vesuvius said:

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"Women are generally the people that are lining phone companies pockets as they can talk for 2 hours and not mention a single fact."

Don't be fooled, all that chattering is just error correction.

haha, yeah, that telephone audio quality is bad.... lol
disconnect the backbone and they'll stop planning evil stuff on the 'network' 

I don't use my phone much and I'm always annoyed, if I have to.

I use my cell a lot. I don't have a home phone but that is because I travel a lot.

I use my cell or skype for everything.

SaraJoRedux said:

I use my cell or skype for everything.

I think you've just about vindicated everything everyone's said about women single-handedly supporting phone companies there

As for me, I tend to only use my phone for texting when I can help it. Occasionally people call me, but if I ever call anyone I tend to use Skype.

GoddersUK said:

SaraJoRedux said:

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I think you've just about vindicated everything everyone's said about women single-handedly supporting phone companies there

As for me, I tend to only use my phone for texting when I can help it. Occasionally people call me, but if I ever call anyone I tend to use Skype.

haha, what if I use Skype on my PHONE?

SaraJoRedux said:

GoddersUK said:

*snip*

haha, what if I use Skype on my PHONE?

I also use my cell quite a bit, mostly for calling my parents, though.

I've got a pretty basic flip-phone with a traditional keypad; I have unlimited texting but avoid it as it's a pain to text on my phone (if I had an iPhone or a QWERTY keypad on my phone it would be a different matter, but I don't).

(curiously enough, as I was typing this message, I received and responded to a text...)