There’s probably (or will be) a drug for that.
Do you feel anxious if your cellphone isn’t nearby?
Does just the thought of losing your phone make your heart pound?
Do you keep an extra phone on hand, just in case your primary phone breaks?
Do you sometimes take it to bed with you?
If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you may be a nomophobe, and you are not alone.
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I will admit that I find myself cut off from the world when I don’t have my phone with me. I don’t like leaving the house without it but when I do, I deal with it.
It does NOT come into the bedroom with me. My wife and I fought for years over getting a regular phone in the bedroom. I lost that battle but the phone is on her side of the bed.
Do I have this phobia? Probably just a touch of it. Could I live without it. Certainly. Did for more years without it than I did with it. It’s just really convenient.
Just take some Xanax, wash it down with a strong drink and you will be fine 🙂
A couple extra shots of a fine single malt works better than Xanax. Cheaper, too.
That’s why they’ll insist on Xanax, and then you’ll have to take other shit to counter the effects of the Xanax.
Of course, they’ll invent a lot of ailments that the 99%ers get but that the 1%ers are mysteriously immune to. (And the 12,400 are never seen by their physicians about.)
Gee, you don’t suppose that ONE of the reasons America has lost its productivity could be because 99% of Americans spend most of their day yammering at each other on one of those things, do you?
Personally, I find it much better to actually DO SOME FRIGGING *WORK*!
Hang up and get something done, snowflakes. Something REAL.
You are so yesterday! They do not yammer! They text each other! Some of them won’t even accept voice calls any more!
I have the ultimate luxury.
My phone’s voice mail system doesn’t work. 🙂
No, no, no, and no. I feel fine leaving the house totally nude. No phone, no watch, no wallet/drivers license etc. Depends what I’m planning to do of course.
I only get upset when I have to wait somewhere and I don’t have a paperback to read. Usually waiting for the cops to arrest me for being nude?
Ha, ha.
So live there.
Generally, I do wear clothes so I don’t trip over myself.
Damnit Bobbo I about spit my water all over the keyboard.
Was that you who walked into a WalMart nude and strolled over and put on a pair of socks?
http://dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102506/Naked-300lb-man-tasered-police-walked-Walmart-pair-socks.html
Cap’n==my Daddy was a mean son of a gun but he never would have named me Lamont.
I find myself wishing I could lose mine. People only call when they want something; never a call when I need something myself. (Obviously this is an assigned phone; I still have a land line with an answering machine on it. Asynchronous communication may seem slower but it’s more likely to get processed intelligently).
These aren’t phones. They’re miniature tablets with phone capabilities. I think Leo said something similar and it makes sense. A phone is now a communication device, gps navigation, news source, banking service, etc…. I’d be pissed too if I lost mine and have to go through the dreaded India based replacement ‘services’.
“Do you feel anxious…….” No. It’s a fucking phone.
If you still need a fucking security blanket and your more then four years old, grow the fuck up.
OK so I am a bit bitter, this morning I was stuck behind some yammering twit weaving back an forth, slowing down and speeding up, and surprise surprise when I was finally able to get around them what were they doing? Talking on the goddamn phone.
If I come upon the scene of your accident and find out you crashed because your were on the phone I will happily strangle you myself.
Hang the fuck up, put down your starbucks and pay attention to the fucking road.
Hell no. The phone gets turned off and put to charge when I go to bed. Sadly, my occupation requires I have it with me during the day but I admit the nurses frequently chase me down to give it back to me after I leave it somewhere.
But, my Tablet goes everywhere with me. It curls up next to my pillow. It is with me 24 hours a day. I am considering getting a second one to keep as a back up. You know, just in case…
I got a little apartment on the side to go visit my Kindle in secret.
Family getting jealous, huh?
I thought I was the only one frightened by retired pitcher Hideo Nomo.
I don’t have a “smartphone”. I refuse to have one. I have just a regular feature phone, a AT&T free-bee in fact. It can pick-up a signal when those around me with those overpriced “smartphones” can’t.
The only problem I’ve ever had, was it popped out of its holster and I accidentally kicked it under the car… Whoops!
No. But I suffer from the ‘scurge’ (scourge) of misspelling things.
And I suffer from the scourge of Firefox’s spell checker not working in the title field.
Not Firefox. Oh say it isn’t so Uncle Dave.
I use a now ancient flip phone that I keep turned off unless I need to call someone. If I’m driving, taking a walk, or mowing the lawn it can wait.
Been packin’ a cellphone since ’87. I do miss it when its not there.
Paid $700, half-price, for a Mitsubishi 900 analog. It weighed 1 pound 2 ounces.
No problem when it comes to my phone.
Though I do take it to bed with me because I have someone that has medical issues and so I might need to be woken up to go to a hospital just in case.
But outside of that it sleeps next to me on the ccharger and is never given another thought while I nap.
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What about nomophilia? I leave my mobile at home more often than not.
My phone is my iHo
BlackBerry user here. Enough said.
And no, I never find my friends or boss inconvenient. I am always gladly willing to give them the attention they expect to get from me.
I left mine on top of Diamond Head mountain once, and a nice Canadian couple handed it to me when I reached the bottom. Whew!
i dont have a cell phone.. 😀
I believe Obamacare covers this. If not, it should be.
The Feds give out plenty of free cell phones. Even smart phones! I guess landlines aren’t even for the poor, anymore.
Good point. A fair amount of my utility “fees” go to support all sorts of needs.
What is Nomophobia? and give the full detail how they cause?
I turned off my phone last April, on my birthday. What a relief.
Eventually, walking home after dark, in the supermarket trying to remember if we have X jars of mayo in the cupboard already or not, and a few other times, I came to decide it was time to get another. But only 3 people have the new number.
I DO wish I could make it automatically ignore or not accept texts. What a silly concept!
Yup. It’s kind of sick. If I don’t have my iphone with me at all times I feel a sense of disconnection. It comes to the bathroom and to bed with me. At least now I can put a name to my disorder.
Hello!!!!!!
What?!??!?!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=27aVPqpnL7Y
I’d love to know the average age of the dvorak blog reader. :cough: dinosaurs seem like a new age thang’.