Can you cope without your cellular phone?

Sure. Sometimes I’ll go days without it.

Of course, but would I voluntarily give it up? No. If it dies when I’m out, I don’t freak out.

My calling plan expired last May. I’ve lived without it.

Well, we lived without them before they existed – right?

I would miss the convenience of all the things I can do on my smartphone (check weather, set alarms, Fluther, read news, listen to music, etc.)

Perhaps ironically, the feature I would miss the least is the actual phone. I hate talking on the phone.

I cope very well.
I do not like to be at anyone’s beck and call,and I’m not. :)

Can I? Sure. I do most of the day at work (No signal so its worthless, other than games but its hard to play them at work, lol).

Would I like to? No not at all.

I have some pigeons, so i’d struggle on regardless.

I didn’t even get a cell phone until I left for college. I had no desire and did just fine without.

However, in college, it is extremely useful, verging on necessary. My friends lived in the dorm across campus and if it weren’t for the text I get letting me know they’re headed to dinner, I would never be able to know when they’d be there to join them. I didn’t have a landline in my dorm and needed to communicate with my doctor almost daily, so I was dependent on it for that. And my college is in a somewhat rough area, so having a phone on me to call the cops if I found myself in a bad situation is very important too. I wouldn’t do well without it at school.

I could live without my phone, but my friends and family couldn’t live without my phone because they are constantly trying to get in touch with me and they freak out if I don’t reply immediately. I guess everyone thinks I’m going to fall off the face of the earth or something.

I don’t know if I could. My cell phone is like a mini-computer, so I am constantly using it for other things. It contains my calendar and sooooooo many other important information that I would feel naked without having it in my pocket.

Once, mine took an accidental bath, and the whole thing was fried. Since then, I’m back to keeping a little black book with numbers as well. It’s a slight hassle, but the numbers are more important than the phone.

I don’t like being without it because, as my boyfriend and I are fairly long distance most of the time, it is our main communicsation tool. However, we will be on holiday together for 10 days soon and I have no intention of worrying about whether I have my phone with me at all times or not during that time.

Yes, I’ve gone days at a time without seeing or using it.

I love not being with it. I am required to have it for my job, but sometimes…

I can live without it, in fact, I find it liberating to not have it. There’s something about having no immediate connection to your home, even if you’re entirely safe and just a short walk away from a phone, that I love.

I have a flip phone that is used for calling, and that’s it. But I could live without it, I barely call anyone, and people barely call me. It’s convenient to have yeah, but if it wasn’t there, I’d cope and find other ways to get in touch with folks. Hell, I lived a while without any kind of phone at all, and still managed to get my shit done that’s otherwise done with a phone.

I’ve had my cell for a bit more than a year, and so far it serves more as a clock and a calendar than a phone lol.

While I have the contacts backed up and the important numbers memorized, I would have a little bit of a hard time simply because I do not have a landline. Yeah, I can deal without the GPS, internet access, music, videos, games, and all of the other stuff on there (most of which is also on my laptop computer) but there have been times when having a phone right there was a good thing. I can cope as I am not one of those people who is always on the phone or texting every 17 seconds, but it would be difficult as I would be unable to make/receive calls period since Seattle doesn’t believe in payphones.

As a side note, one thing that many people like @ddude1116 and @filmfann forget/overlook is that the cellphone is for your convenience, not the convenience of others. If I don’t want to talk to you, one of three things will happen; I will ignore your call and have it sent to voicemail, I will program my phone to kick you to voicemail automatically and I won’t even hear it ring, or I will answer and stay on the line just long enough to tell you to go fuck yourself. If you feel you always have to answer, then your problem isn’t the cellphone; it’s you!.

I use my cell phone to talk, text and I depend on it’s GPS to not drive me into a tree so I wouldn’t like not having it, especially since I don’t have a landline and depend on it for work.

My cellphone is my primary flutherer. The hazard of course is mature eyes plus fat thumbs plus small screen equals imperfect typing at times and ever present hazard of smart phone trying tp outsmart the word I had in mind.

The only real dependency I have on my phone is that since I don’t have a car and depend on my mother (or generous friends) to pick me up and drop me off, I need it to keep contact with them to let them know where I’m going to be or what time to come.

Though I do get finicky if I don’t have my phone and sense that somewhere, John Barrowman is tweeting and I am not seeing his tweets…

Kudos for your answers :)