Because I had to be on call-out for emergencies I had a Government mobile years ago when they first came out and were the size of an Ikea pallet. The end result is that I associate this technology with constant intrusion into my life.
I never purchased a mobile until last year and I hate it. I have never sent a mobile text message and never will.
As an academic I go thermonuclear when I get e-mails from my students written in "text speak", or find students sitting in lectures tapping away like rats in a Skinner box. I now start the semester telling all my students that my conditioned response to ringtones in lectures is to grab the phone and throw it out of the window.It works wonders.
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