World without cellular phones

United States
December 15, 2011 6:35am CST
It seems we've all become so dependent on our cell phones, but it was not long ago that we seemed to operate fine without them. How bad or good would we really be if we woke up tomorrow and nobody's cell phone worked?
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16 responses
@tang888 (23)
• China
16 Dec 11
most people use mobile in the world. They get up on morning , they look at their cellphone,and they go to working .They talk with others in business ,and they talk with others in their life.I use mobile every day ,I think the life will be bad if I have not a cellphone.when I miss my mother ,I talk with her at once.so we talk happy.and when i close my mobile,and I fall to sleep.
@cwong77 (2010)
• Malaysia
16 Dec 11
I don't know about others but for me, I think it's just an adaption process. People who has been dependent on cellphone such as me, will find it hard to live without the cellphone. My cellphones serves as my calendar, calculator, entertainer, and all sorts beside just making calls or receiving SMS. More important, I sometimes use it online too! However I don't feel the horror to your discussion which cellphones go disappear just like that.. I will try to adapt to it, and I believe everyone will be able to overcome this...
@freedomg (1684)
• United States
15 Dec 11
My oldest daughter has a cell phone (BIG mistake on my part) and I used to but I gave mine up. I have found that by having a set of emergency contacts that can get to me if truly needed or at least hold down the fort till I get back from where ever I may be(though I am rarely out of the home) is enough. I am a happier and calmer person now that I don't have 15 people calling me while I'm trying to run errands just ta say "Watchya doing?" or just to chat leaves me calmer and having made less mistakes. If I woke up tomorrow and no ones cell would work I would be just fine though I think my daughters head would explode. LOL
• Indonesia
15 Dec 11
If every one cell phone fail, it will not be much problems :). No need to worry, but if only mine, then it is a problem. Although sometime I really feel free when my cell phone was left at home and I am going to work without it by incidence. No calls no text message, wow really good sometime.
@Arieles (2473)
• United States
15 Dec 11
In the last ten years, there have been times when I have had cell phones and times when I have not. It is nice to have a cell phone, for those times when you really want an answer to a question you might have. Other times, what we really need to know is not such an emergency that we can not wait for an answer. Currently I don't have a cell phone, my cell phone is not working anymore. I'll get a new cell phone sometime soon. Out with the old, in with the new.
@SmOreS1 (40)
• United States
15 Dec 11
Earlier today I had a dentist appt and as I was getting my teeth cleaned I was watching this talk show with 3 Doctors as the host and they gave the audience tips about health problems and how to avoid them. Thodays subject was brain cancer and they said that recent studies have found that people who frequently use cell phones develop brain cancer. The doctors stated that the farther away you cell phone is, the better and that its best to you speaker phone or headsets to avoid holding the phone to your head. So knowing this, I believe that cellphones cause more harm than good.
@smacksman (6053)
15 Dec 11
We would get along just fine! Having been born before computers; space travel; pocket calculators; cell phones; and many more wonderful inventions I can safely say that we would all adapt. Welcome to Mylot.
@hvedra (1619)
15 Dec 11
It would hardly bother me at all. Cell 'phones can be convenient but sometimes I wonder exactly who benefits from that convenience. The world operated very well without them and aside from emergency use there are a lot of disadvantages to being accessible (monitored!) 24/7. Some people are addicted, they can't cope without their 'phones and are constantly talking, texting or updating statuses on social networking sites. You see people who are "connected" via their cell 'phones whilst being totally disconnected from their immediate surroundings.
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
15 Dec 11
I would welcome it. Seriously, I would. I know it'll take some adjustment time, but I really think all this new technology that's coming out are distractions. No wonder we're so big in the western society. We sit on our butts too much! Just gimme the old-fashioned telephone with no answering machines or caller ID, just that lovely classic ring, and that's it. How'bout when nobody's Internet works as well???
@cearn25 (3456)
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
I am okay if there will be no cell phone if tomorrow I woke up. I just go along what is in right now. But to tell you honestly, I have been an addict to cellphone or it is just that cellphone is very important especially when it comes to communication. I hope it will not happen. Cellphone has been a part of me now. It is very usable.
• India
15 Dec 11
Fed up with Cellphone? - Cellphones have become too much of a burden on people due to constant calls people make & receive.
Whether or not I am dependent on cell phone, I realized a whole lot of people became too dependent on my cell phone that there were almost non stop calls all through the day and even late nights or very early mornings. I work for a company which is doing a project with people interface. More than my usage or requirement for the cell phone, it was my management or the whole of public in this place who found maximum use for my cell phone. Companies provide phones as well some reimbursement of call charges but that's to ensure we are bonded to respond at the bosses' beck & call. As for people, I think every 2nd person in this city was in possession of my cell phone number and the callers/calls were infinite. After I changed my cellphone number and with a change in my role, I am already experiencing what the world would be without cellular phones, and I am really happy to go back in time.
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
Cellphones is consider as one of our basic necessity today cause it is the easiest and the fastest way to communicate with someone no matter how near or far they are with each other.Living life without will be difficult today.If a day come that cellphones don't work,I hope there still telephone or internet as alternative to communicate with someone.
@drambits (96)
15 Dec 11
It'll be much harder for overseas workers to battle homesickness without cellphones since they won't be able to call their families anytime they want. Without cellphones there certainly won't be computers today that's why we'll all be in a time wherein it takes some good 1-2 months before people living across continents could communicate with each other.
• India
15 Dec 11
Well this is a wonderful question bcuase we dont realise the importance of soemthing and how much we depend on it until we lose it.. So if this hypothetical situation comes true I wont be able to call/ chat/ text/ ping any of the people I know. I wont be able to check the latest news, view my online earnings , my mails and others stuff quickly. I would fee really lost and isolated and hence I feel the situation will be very bad atleast for me without cellphones.
@megamatt (14291)
• United States
15 Dec 11
Well on the bright side, there would be no more obnoxious cell phone users talking when you're trying to eat in a restaurant or watching a movie. Or someone causing a car crash because they just have to be texting or talking on their cell phone when they are going down the street. Or really anything else along those lines. It would cause a panic I would think as many people would freak out. Not as much if something that was truly essential like the Internet had gone out but it would be a pretty horrific panic as cell phones are rather serious business. All we would have to do is switch back to landlines. Sure you can't drive down the street talking on a landline but perhaps it would be for the best if cell phones stopped working. The only bad thing that I could think would be if you got stranded somewhere in an emergency but cell phones stopping working would have far before benefits than they would have drawbacks.
@airkulet (2700)
• Philippines
15 Dec 11
That was really ironic to think too. Thinking that before we could live without its existence and now we can't live without it. I can't also imagine without it and also the connection of internet. Today whole day was out of power and I am really bored that I can't go through online, my phone hasn't connection to online so I guess I will add Internet as a thing that I couldn't live without.