This cell phone poll is from bloodstones.

[randomness]

[Poll #1458046]

Comments

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I usually say I don't have a cell phone. I do have one, I just never turn it on unless I am actually using it or expecting a call. When it is on, unless I have it sitting on the table next to me, I rarely hear it when it rings.
I no longer give out the number because people/doctors offices insist on using the cell to call and I miss the calls. I don't know how many times I have told them to use my home number, but they insist on using the cell. Finally I told them to delete the number and that I no longer had the phone. I never think to check the voicemail and don't even remember the password.

I like to be able to disappear. I have no need nor desire to rely on a piece of technology 24/7. I just bought a new car and the dealer was all apologetic because it didn't have GPS. I said thank you, I don't want a GPS, I know how to read a map or ask for directions should I need them. Sometimes I just don't want to be trackable.

[ceo]

I definitely understand not wanting a cell phone, but I should note that GPS is entirely passive; the satellites just broadcast time signals and the receiver uses them to compute where you are.

[donnad.livejournal.com]

the receiver uses them to compute where you are

Ah, there you go, what if I don't want anyone to know where I am?
No GPS, no lojak, no cell phone, I don't rely on these things, If I wanted to go completely off grid, I could. If I wanted to or needed to disappear I can. Granted I would probably have internet withdrawal, but I would survive. :)

[ceo]

The receiver is the thing you carry; it can't tell anyone else where you are.