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Your boss not knowing how to type, John Madden refusing to get on planes — these are adorable quirks caused by being old, or phobic, or old and phobic. But a cell phone is so simple to use, so harmless, and so integral to how we’ve agreed to communicate as a society, that refusing to own one isn’t just the act of a Luddite. It’s a pretty serious power move.
Everyone has a cell phone now. There are more than 280 million mobile subscribers in America, according to the Federal Communications Commission. According to a 2005 international study by Advertising Age, 15 percent of Americans have interrupted sex to answer their phones. Even people who are videotaping themselves having sex, like Paris Hilton, stop to answer a call.
Not having a cell phone is a way of getting the world to run on your time. A lot of powerful people are already on to this. Warren Buffett doesn’t use one. Nor does Mikhail Prokhorov, the 45-year-old Russian billionaire who owns the New Jersey Nets. Tavis Smiley doesn’t own one, either.
I only use my cell phone as a phone.
Found by Cinàedh.
Can I link this to the previous article about iPhone owners getting more sex than Android owners and infer that billionaires are getting less sex than iPhone owners?
I generally use my phone for it’s other functions, namely the internet, music and GPS. I only have a phone instead of a PDA for the possibility that I need to contact someone in an emergency, such as calling someone if my car breaks down out in the bush, or calling a ambulance for an accident.