news.yahoo.com— Cell phone users spend lots of time talking into their devices, but they generally communicate with very few people. Just how few? Would you believe four?
Aug 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
normally i dont call that much either.... id rather txt cuz most of the time i dont feel talking and im sure that many other ppl feel the same. i would think that the majority of ppl txt more than calling....
This is why I am soooo happy to be an Alltel customer. With their "My Circle" feature I can set 10 numbers to act just like mobile-to-mobile #'s. So my few family/friends that aren't on Alltel, are still mobile-to-mobile for me.If you are an Alltel customer, definitely populate your Circle!
216 entries in Contacts, about half of whom I cannot remember the last time I called (and a few of whom I do not remember who they are or why I entered them)20 numbers I call "regularly" (at least once a month)6 numbers account for 90% of my call volume, and most of that is inbound3 of those I could probably do without talking to nearly as much as it turns out I do
So about three days after I got my first cell phone I was out doing a little archaeolgical survey at work on a National Forest. I had walked about ten miles in from the truck, and was taking my lunch break on the top of a hill over seven miles from the nearest road. Eating an orange, enjoying the woods, the peace, the birds songs, the slight sound of a babbling brook that's at the bottom of the hill.All of a sudden the damned cellphone rings, birds go flying everywhere, I fall off my stump I've been sitting on ("WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?" Never expected to hear the extremely annoying Nokia Tune - you know which one I mean - in the middle of nowhere). I hit my head on the shovel when I fell. Not too happy, and I let whoever it was on the phone know all about it. My girlfriend was on the phone. She wanted to let me know that she was about to drive home. Even though she'd told me the night before that she was coming home right after she ate lunch, she thought it would be good to let me know again, just so I wouldn't worry (I never worried before I got the phone, why would I start now?)Decided then, that my life with a cell phone would be short. It was. I do not have one now, and I will not be getting one again. Ever. Cellphones are leashes. 1000 mile long leashes. You can't turn 'em off because you'll get chewed out for not having it on. Better not to have one.
Virgin Mobile has 3 different levels of calling. You can get the flat X$/mo plan giving you a certain amount of min. You can also get the new wave of options that lets you specify 3-4 ppl that end up not deducting min or $ from your acct, but it costs more.I have the cheapest option of adding $20/90 days and it's 25c/min for the 1st 10 min of a day. Thereafter, it's 10c/min. I primarily only use it on wkends, so even at 10min/wkend that's $10/mo.They have a new Sugar Mama program to receive texts, watch 30 sec ads, do surveys that give you a free min too. I've gotten 28 min since 5 wks ago, so it makes it only cost me $20/90 days. Good if you already have a home phone.
shertzerjAug 9, 2006
1. My mother2. My work3. My girlfriend4. Your girlfriend
imamadpenguinAug 9, 2006
normally i dont call that much either.... id rather txt cuz most of the time i dont feel talking and im sure that many other ppl feel the same. i would think that the majority of ppl txt more than calling....
gweedo767Aug 9, 2006
This is why I am soooo happy to be an Alltel customer. With their "My Circle" feature I can set 10 numbers to act just like mobile-to-mobile #'s. So my few family/friends that aren't on Alltel, are still mobile-to-mobile for me.If you are an Alltel customer, definitely populate your Circle!
dosquatchAug 9, 2006
216 entries in Contacts, about half of whom I cannot remember the last time I called (and a few of whom I do not remember who they are or why I entered them)20 numbers I call "regularly" (at least once a month)6 numbers account for 90% of my call volume, and most of that is inbound3 of those I could probably do without talking to nearly as much as it turns out I do
impliedparadoxAug 9, 2006
That was HILARIOUS and very subtle.
mhockey14221Aug 9, 2006
Do drunk dials count too? Because that number might be fourty instead of four...
trjamesAug 9, 2006
So about three days after I got my first cell phone I was out doing a little archaeolgical survey at work on a National Forest. I had walked about ten miles in from the truck, and was taking my lunch break on the top of a hill over seven miles from the nearest road. Eating an orange, enjoying the woods, the peace, the birds songs, the slight sound of a babbling brook that's at the bottom of the hill.All of a sudden the damned cellphone rings, birds go flying everywhere, I fall off my stump I've been sitting on ("WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!?!?" Never expected to hear the extremely annoying Nokia Tune - you know which one I mean - in the middle of nowhere). I hit my head on the shovel when I fell. Not too happy, and I let whoever it was on the phone know all about it. My girlfriend was on the phone. She wanted to let me know that she was about to drive home. Even though she'd told me the night before that she was coming home right after she ate lunch, she thought it would be good to let me know again, just so I wouldn't worry (I never worried before I got the phone, why would I start now?)Decided then, that my life with a cell phone would be short. It was. I do not have one now, and I will not be getting one again. Ever. Cellphones are leashes. 1000 mile long leashes. You can't turn 'em off because you'll get chewed out for not having it on. Better not to have one.
brettotte1Aug 9, 2006
Virgin Mobile has 3 different levels of calling. You can get the flat X$/mo plan giving you a certain amount of min. You can also get the new wave of options that lets you specify 3-4 ppl that end up not deducting min or $ from your acct, but it costs more.I have the cheapest option of adding $20/90 days and it's 25c/min for the 1st 10 min of a day. Thereafter, it's 10c/min. I primarily only use it on wkends, so even at 10min/wkend that's $10/mo.They have a new Sugar Mama program to receive texts, watch 30 sec ads, do surveys that give you a free min too. I've gotten 28 min since 5 wks ago, so it makes it only cost me $20/90 days. Good if you already have a home phone.