Top 10 Guilty ways that people use their mobile phones.
Walking out of our home without our mobile phone is like leaving the house without your trousers on. You feel half naked and sulk all day claiming you probably have 500 text messages waiting for your reply, to return home to find one from your mum asking what you want for tea.
Whatever we need our mobile phone for; the flexibility of the device is perfect for everyone’s needs and requirements, whether you are a student, parent, businessperson, or just an ordinary Joe Bloggs who keeps in regular contact with his friends and family.
As mobile phone companies strive to improve the technology, phone deals and contracts are lowering in price, to suit everyone’s budget and lifestyle in the 21st century.
On top of this, many phones now have a variety of integrated systems, including the Internet, TV, Camera and Video, proving there is no real need to return home to use, once house bound facilities that look and sound pretty ancient.
In fact, these days there is so much use for our little mobile device, the old-school landline doesn’t seem to have much use in our busy lives anymore. In fact, in some cases, the landline is more of a hindrance than a help to our daily lives, sometimes without us realising.
Well don’t fret; we have compiled a Top 10 Guilty list of reasons to why people will use their mobiles rather than the landline.
- 1. Your boss doesn’t know where you are when you pull a sickie.
You wake up one morning, the sun is shining through your window, there is not a cloud in the sky and all you want to do is chill out all day in the sun. Instead, you have to drag yourself out of bed, get in the shower, and get yourself to work. Sound familiar? Now as much as we don’t wish to promote this kind of ‘scandal’ it’s a common scenario and most people tend to pull a good old sickie day at least once a year. The general excuse of, “I’ve have been up all night throwing up,” or “I am full of the flu,” generally pour out of people’s mouths as they attempt their drama skills, coughing and sneezing down the phone. Employers will have you pretty much sussed the second you call, but if you are clever about your sickie day, you might just get away with it. By that we mean get rid of the landline. That way, they don’t have a landline number to attempt to catch you out, and they only have your mobile number which you will have on you at all times. So you can be anywhere, at any time pulling a sickie, without the fear of the big boss calling home. - 2. You can lock the important details of your mobile from interested investigators (i.e. the other half)
Now as much as we hope you are a faithful boyfriend or girlfriend to your partner, we do from time to time get ourselves in a little bit of bother which may not be for the eyes and ears of our respective partners. If you give your number out and you know you really shouldn’t of, at least you only have to worry that you will be the one receiving the call our text, rather than your other half answering the landline to have last night’s lover calling to arrange a date. Not the best situation to be in, so just get rid of the landline. Also, if you have been on a big night out and it got a little messy with shots and wine galore, you may not remember the delightful pictures that have been taken on your phone for prying eyes to see. Yes those half naked pictures of you tied round a lamppost, or dancing quite provocatively on the dance floor may prove rather damaging to your relationship or more importantly, your reputation. However, help is at hand with many mobile phone devices, like the Nokia N97 which offer its customers the chance to lock their media files with a simple pin that only you know, making those dreaded pictures for your eyes only. - 3. You can easily ignore, we mean politely decline, calls on your mobile without getting out of bed.
We all know the feeling, it is Sunday morning, and after a hard week at work, you really just want to have a well deserved lie in and not move from your bed. Then the landline phone rings, it’s downstairs, while you are upstairs, in bed, and it keeps ringing and ringing until you leap out of your warm bed, stomp downstairs, to find it is some call centre offering you double glazing. So annoying! However, with a mobile phone, there are endless reasons as to why this little handy device is important for your perfect morning lie-in.- a. You can have it right next to your bed in case you want to answer your phone.
- b. You can see who is calling and whether you want to speak to them or not.
- c. You can put it on silent and you won’t even hear it go off.
- d. Or you can simply turn it off and deal with any issues the next day. Sorted.
- 4. You can blame the bad signal or battery when you want to hang up.
Ever been on the phone to someone and you really don’t want to be? Do your daily phone conversations consist of getting a right earful from the other half that you haven’t done a thing around the house all day while they have been slaving away at work, or your mother nagging that you haven’t returned her call within a few hours, and she needs you to pop over because she needs to go shopping? We have all been on the other end of a phone call we really don’t want to take and this is where the mobile phone comes into perfect play. With the mobile, you can pretend your battery has gone dead and switch it off for a few hours while you relax and enjoy the rest of your day. If you really need to keep your phone on, you can quickly claim you have lost signal, pretend you can’t hear them and simply hang up. Do that with a landline and be prepared to be nagged at even more and you won’t have a single excuse to try and get away with it! - 5. Mobile phones are a fashion accessory.
Let’s face it, landlines look pretty ugly and you wouldn’t get much street cred carrying round a landline in a nightclub. Most of them resemble something from the 1950s, bulky with a tangled cord and a sticker with long dead international numbers. So not cool! There are so many mobile phones on the market of different styles and shapes, to suit your needs and personality, that the landline is just so last season. - 6. Lighting your way home with the mobile phone.
You are stumbling home after a drunken night out on the tiles, its pitch black, your head is spinning, you can’t see a thing, and your co-ordination is pretty poor, and within the next five minutes you know you have to find your key and aim to open the front door. With a chicken kebab in one hand and your other propping you up on the wall, you really haven’t got the physically energy to be looking for things, and with the stupid porch light broken (which dad has been promising to fix for weeks) you fumble around for your key in the dark, which is like looking for needle in a haystack. However, help is at hand with the new flash light installed on the Iphone which has been specifically built in to provide a helping hand during those drunken nights out. Simply flashing the light will help you find your key in no time so you can sleep soundly in your own bed, rather than waking up in the porch the next morning. - 7. The latest information at your fingertips.
The advantages of owning a landline is becoming more and more distant as mobile phones take on board an array of digital features to entertain our daily lives. Many mobiles feature the Internet, MP3’s, Radio, TV, Video recording and Cameras to capture all the latest information from around the globe. Generally landlines don’t really have these features installed. Instead, they offer their owners the opportunity to make a call and answer a call, without even knowing who it is. Now that is some entertaining stuff. - 8. Immediate access to a phone number.
Telephone books are so last season. In fact, the little black book with all your phone numbers in is probably around 30 years old, and since then, Aunty Pat emigrated, Cousin Andy is now called Andrea and lives in Thailand and all your mates have moved out of the family home and now have a wife, kids and a mobile phone. The landline and its ‘handy’ phonebook are not so handy anymore, yet the mobile phone is perfect for those urgent phone calls, last minute change of plans, or taking down a new person’s number without having to run round for a pen that doesn’t work, find there is no paper and resort to writing it on your hand. You get the picture. Start afresh, chuck the book and check in with a phone. - 9. Blocking the ex.
We have all got one. That dreaded ex who seemed so perfect at the beginning yet two months later when you realise all of their belongings are now in your wardrobe, and they are calling your mum to ask for advice on you, it may be time to call it a day. However, calling it a day to them means persistent phone calls and text messages, endless voicemails saying they love you and miss you, and an absolute annoyance that you really don’t want or need. Simple solution, block their number or change yours. That way, they can’t contact you at all, and you can text your new number to the people you actually want to speak too. - 10. You can be sat on the loo when you use it!
Yes, the mobile phone allows you to be wherever you want at any time without your mum nagging at you while you’re sat at the bottom of the stairs trying to get in a comfortable position to speak to your friend about what Sharon Mitchell said to Louise Marshall in the playground today. The landline places you in such a vulnerable position if you want to have a private conversation. Restricted to the hall by the landline cord, while you attempt to have a heated argument with your boyfriend or girlfriend, while the whole family listen on in the living room. Where is the fun in that! And with these ten points now drawn to a close, we hope we have made you see that times have changed, it is time to cut the cord, throw away the old school device, get hip and trendy and dial up to a mobile phone.
