I used to be very dependent on my phone. At one point, I had three contracts going simultaneously as I couldn't pass up on the deal for the latest and greatest gadgets and even carried all three phones around. But over the last few years, my dependency has decreased drastically. My phone is my mp3 player and not much else. And in a few weeks, my contract will expire and I will be phone free for the first time in well over a decade. Can't say as I will miss it one bit. When I phoned orange to tell them I was dumping them, they asked if I had found a better deal. When I told them no, they asked me why. I told them that since they went to EE (everything everywhere) I get NA (nothing anywhere), so due to the lack of signal, they have inadvertently forced me to ween myself of being so dependent on the phone and I have been at the stage where I can literally forget to take my phone out with me, and not be even slightly worried when I realise its not in my pocket, for a long time now. He was shocked, yet wished me all the best and said "I wish I could do that, I shall aspire to follow suit one day".
I have seen my stepdaughter texting her friends and ex-boyfriend while sat right next to them on the sofa. Sometimes, her friends refuse to text back and just reply the old fashioned way. She carries her phone and ipad just about everywhere she goes. She lives on facebook, twitter and youtube. Trying to have a conversation -face to face- is near impossible. I occasionally unplug the router so that she has to use her own network connection in the hope that she runs out of data usage, and we might get to see her face without a gadget in front of it.
