Remember when cell phones weren't around?
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This was my first phone as well. If I remember right the only thing you could do on that thing besides call was play a game called snake. I don't even think you could text and there certainly wasn't any internet or a camera.I didn't have a cell phone until I was 18 and had a lucrative job at dominos .I was a high school senior.I didn't get too many calls because not a lot of people owned cellphones until 2007.
nokia green screen with the marijuana face plate
No nationwide calling. Roaming was 99 cents a minute.
That must have been around 2000-2001
I was spitting game on AOL/Aim before I had a cell phone.
Something I've experienced lately, or more that I've just become more aware of given my current circumstances and lack of facebook, is that people no longer put any energy into relationships of any kind outside of an app or text. In the past 2 weeks I've had 3 guys give me their number and been told to "text them." I'm not 25. I'm almost 40 years old. And these dudes are in their mid-40's.
No one has to put any energy into anything. I've been single for so long because any guy that even has interest for a second, quickly loses it when I'm not blowing up his phone or trying to hang out with him every day. My fierce independence partly gets in the way of that but I don't even have time to get that far if I'm just being given a phone number and told to text them. Nah, biggest turn off. If you have interest, show it. Put in the tiniest bit of effort. Ask me to meet you for coffee.
But fact is since they don't have to put that energy into anyone, they don't. They can go on pof and find 20 chicks to chat with that will stroke their ego or give them attention. Nobody can handle having their phone not ring or not get texts constantly. My phone goes off maybe once or twice a week outside of my neighbor and my mom. None of my long term friends ever call me, they rarely text and many only go so far as using facebook to foster/maintain any kind of relationship. I feel like all of that is extremely disingenuous anymore and I just don't have time for it.
This is why I want to just throw my phone. The only sort of social media app i have left on my phone is instagram. Anything else I just check in occasionally from my laptop. You guys honestly get the majority of my online attention anymore....and I'm not even around here much.
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@I Wild Each It was that a FRAT? Lol
No one has to put any energy into anything. I've been single for so long because any guy that even has interest for a second, quickly loses it when I'm not blowing up his phone or trying to hang out with him every day. My fierce independence partly gets in the way of that but I don't even have time to get that far if I'm just being given a phone number and told to text them. Nah, biggest turn off. If you have interest, show it. Put in the tiniest bit of effort. Ask me to meet you for coffee.
But fact is since they don't have to put that energy into anyone, they don't. They can go on pof and find 20 chicks to chat with that will stroke their ego or give them attention. Nobody can handle having their phone not ring or not get texts constantly. My phone goes off maybe once or twice a week outside of my neighbor and my mom. None of my long term friends ever call me, they rarely text and many only go so far as using facebook to foster/maintain any kind of relationship. I feel like all of that is extremely disingenuous anymore and I just don't have time for it.
This is why I want to just throw my phone. The only sort of social media app i have left on my phone is instagram. Anything else I just check in occasionally from my laptop. You guys honestly get the majority of my online attention anymore....and I'm not even around here much.
/story
@I Wild Each It was that a FRAT? Lol
Not a bad FRAT. I would say 3 on a scale of 10Something I've experienced lately, or more that I've just become more aware of given my current circumstances and lack of facebook, is that people no longer put any energy into relationships of any kind outside of an app or text. In the past 2 weeks I've had 3 guys give me their number and been told to "text them." I'm not 25. I'm almost 40 years old. And these dudes are in their mid-40's.
No one has to put any energy into anything. I've been single for so long because any guy that even has interest for a second, quickly loses it when I'm not blowing up his phone or trying to hang out with him every day. My fierce independence partly gets in the way of that but I don't even have time to get that far if I'm just being given a phone number and told to text them. Nah, biggest turn off. If you have interest, show it. Put in the tiniest bit of effort. Ask me to meet you for coffee.
But fact is since they don't have to put that energy into anyone, they don't. They can go on pof and find 20 chicks to chat with that will stroke their ego or give them attention. Nobody can handle having their phone not ring or not get texts constantly. My phone goes off maybe once or twice a week outside of my neighbor and my mom. None of my long term friends ever call me, they rarely text and many only go so far as using facebook to foster/maintain any kind of relationship. I feel like all of that is extremely disingenuous anymore and I just don't have time for it.
This is why I want to just throw my phone. The only sort of social media app i have left on my phone is instagram. Anything else I just check in occasionally from my laptop. You guys honestly get the majority of my online attention anymore....and I'm not even around here much.
/story
Regarding your situation. Enjoy being single. Being able to come and go when you choose, do the shit you want to do. Do you & dont worry about some dude that would most likely just make you miserable after 3 months anyway.
Do you get anymore perfect?Something I've experienced lately, or more that I've just become more aware of given my current circumstances and lack of facebook, is that people no longer put any energy into relationships of any kind outside of an app or text. In the past 2 weeks I've had 3 guys give me their number and been told to "text them." I'm not 25. I'm almost 40 years old. And these dudes are in their mid-40's.
No one has to put any energy into anything. I've been single for so long because any guy that even has interest for a second, quickly loses it when I'm not blowing up his phone or trying to hang out with him every day. My fierce independence partly gets in the way of that but I don't even have time to get that far if I'm just being given a phone number and told to text them. Nah, biggest turn off. If you have interest, show it. Put in the tiniest bit of effort. Ask me to meet you for coffee.
But fact is since they don't have to put that energy into anyone, they don't. They can go on pof and find 20 chicks to chat with that will stroke their ego or give them attention. Nobody can handle having their phone not ring or not get texts constantly. My phone goes off maybe once or twice a week outside of my neighbor and my mom. None of my long term friends ever call me, they rarely text and many only go so far as using facebook to foster/maintain any kind of relationship. I feel like all of that is extremely disingenuous anymore and I just don't have time for it.
This is why I want to just throw my phone. The only sort of social media app i have left on my phone is instagram. Anything else I just check in occasionally from my laptop. You guys honestly get the majority of my online attention anymore....and I'm not even around here much.
/story
You're almost 40 wtf? You look way younger than that real talkSomething I've experienced lately, or more that I've just become more aware of given my current circumstances and lack of facebook, is that people no longer put any energy into relationships of any kind outside of an app or text. In the past 2 weeks I've had 3 guys give me their number and been told to "text them." I'm not 25. I'm almost 40 years old. And these dudes are in their mid-40's.
No one has to put any energy into anything. I've been single for so long because any guy that even has interest for a second, quickly loses it when I'm not blowing up his phone or trying to hang out with him every day. My fierce independence partly gets in the way of that but I don't even have time to get that far if I'm just being given a phone number and told to text them. Nah, biggest turn off. If you have interest, show it. Put in the tiniest bit of effort. Ask me to meet you for coffee.
But fact is since they don't have to put that energy into anyone, they don't. They can go on pof and find 20 chicks to chat with that will stroke their ego or give them attention. Nobody can handle having their phone not ring or not get texts constantly. My phone goes off maybe once or twice a week outside of my neighbor and my mom. None of my long term friends ever call me, they rarely text and many only go so far as using facebook to foster/maintain any kind of relationship. I feel like all of that is extremely disingenuous anymore and I just don't have time for it.
This is why I want to just throw my phone. The only sort of social media app i have left on my phone is instagram. Anything else I just check in occasionally from my laptop. You guys honestly get the majority of my online attention anymore....and I'm not even around here much.
/story
Weirdest thing about mobiles for me is I actually used to speak on the phone more before I got a mobile, especially before I got a smartphone. Used to be able to talk for hours about random shit, but now don't feel particularly comfortable actually speaking on it, almost like it's an unnecessary waste of time.
Oh I do enjoy it. But it also gets rather lonely too. That's the part that makes it frustrating when trying to meet new people and make new friends in a new town.Not a bad FRAT. I would say 3 on a scale of 10
Regarding your situation. Enjoy being single. Being able to come and go when you choose, do the shit you want to do. Do you & dont worry about some dude that would most likely just make you miserable after 3 months anyway.
Thank you
I turn 40 Feb 6th
Far from perfect my friend!
I'll be your friend!
I wish there was a disagree option still..... I may bump that thread
I already considered us friends!I'll be your friend!
I bought it in 2003 so I might have been 17,but I had to get a job and use my own money to get a phone they had color screen nokia but they cost twice as much,I mastered Snake ,the plans sucked and dropped a ton of calls.
Good job dude, thanks for the help!
Lol i would have said you're in your early 20'sThank you
I wish you could ring back pay phones still.
@girlandcoconut, I think most people prefer texting in the dating scene so they can think about what they want to say before saying it. But I agree 100%. I got rid of facebook in 2009 for that exact reason. I figured if anyone really need to get a hold of me, they could just call.
Yeaaaaa I've been facebookless for 3 or 4 years as well
Lol first thing i thought of i was the guy that was always late, i had to ride my bicycle around town to our usuall hang out spots some times for more than 2 hours to find my friends and by doing that i made more friends because i stopped and ask if they had seen my friends and would just chill with the guys i just met.