{"id":1019,"date":"2012-07-22T11:12:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonerfromafar.wordpress.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2016-07-24T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:29:40","slug":"15-12-hours-without-my-mobile-phone-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/15-12-hours-without-my-mobile-phone-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"15 1\/2 Hours without My Mobile Phone (poll)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever needed to survive without your mobile phone for sometime? I managed to \"15leave my mobile phone charging at the office the other day. That was the night I was due to attend the BBC Proms… In London without a mobile phone on me.\u00a0Disaster coming my way?<\/p>\n

This made me realise even more how irritating some phone habits are. There is a poll at the end of this post, and I will be doing another blog entry to announce the results in a week’s time.<\/p>\n

Yeah, because what if there was a sudden change of plan? I would go to the meeting point to see my friends first, and then some problem would prevent it. I wouldn\u00b4t know about it, because I didn\u00b4t have a phone!\u00a0In the mean time, no checking Twitter nor Facebook, no replying to several text messages that I had previously been sent during the day, and what if my mum called? Any emergency could\u00b4ve happened.<\/p>\n

It was just a matter of getting on without it. An acquaintance had lost his phone at a gig sometime ago. After the initial shock, he realised that he could actually survive without it, and didn\u00b4t own a new one for some time – until he was given one for his birthday! So, I was determined to forget about it all and finish that book that I could\u00a0never finish, because I usually read online.<\/span><\/p>\n

I survived…<\/p>\n

One of the talks in the digital space these days is the use that we make of the phones and what we use it for. Making and receiving calls is actually one of the\u00a0last things that I do with it. I check social networks, etc.\u00a0Hang on, was this gadget called mobile\u00a0phone<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Up until very recently, all those things were `nice-to-have\u00b4 functionalities. Now, they have become the `must-have\u00b4 functionalities in all phones. \u00a0In a recent report by Ofcom in UK, more than four in 10 smartphone users list their mobiles as the first device for them to access the internet. I believe that using a mobile phone implies certain change of habits, simply because we are able to do on the go things that we could have never done before, even when they may be irritating and infuriating.<\/p>\n

All in all, I was happy not to feel the need to check everything all the time. It all\u00a0led me to think about all those\u00a0\u00a0irritating phone habits that we all have and not many try to avoid. What are your favourite irritating phone habits?<\/p>\n

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