Do you own/use a cell phone?

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Poll question: Do you own/use a cell phone?

[hobbit709]

1. Use it for work and personal

Pay $10/mo for Tracfone 50 minute plan. Usually have minutes to carry over. I don't use it just for yattering like most people. Don't text or email on it. No camera and I like it that way.

[BarenakedLady]

2. I have a pre-pay cellphone

It's just for personal use. I need to be reachable if anything happens with my kids.

[graywarrior]

3. Yes and I don't answer that like I don't answer the house phone

[rug]

4. Where's the "I own one but lost it three weeks ago" option?

[NYC_SKP]

5. Use it for everything and more, Internet, mapping, GPS, email accounts.

And DU posting!!!

Business provided iPhone, but use for everything, even phone calls sometimes! :P

[Iggo]

6. Yep. Personal. Must have.

I text more than I make phone calls, though. Probably 10 or even 20 to 1.

[DarkTirade]

7. Technically I'd call it 'work'.

I only got it after I moved up here. I moved up here to take care of my grandpa. When I started taking classes and working too, that's when it got to the point where I NEEDED to be able to get in touch with home and vice versa.

... so I got one that was shiny and purple. :P

I actually rarely use it as a phone for personal use. All my friends are geeks, so texting is for personal use, calling is for necessity. And I didn't have a texting plan when I started, I originally got it just for necessity. The texting package I added later.

[Kali]

8. other

my account has 5 of the goddamn things, one kid pays her bill, one works it off, one is...ahem anyway it runs $170 a month or so for all of 'em unlimited talk/text. We are 15 miles from the nearest town/help and drive shitty vehicles on shitty roads. I HATE walking. I use it for work and personal, even though I really hate talking to anybody but my sister.

[NMDemDist2]

9. Other, I have one and still am paying a small contract (til August) but I never turn it on

but it was handy when I was traveling.......

[VenusRising]

10. Pre-pay for emergencies only.

Otherwise, I LOATHE cell phones.

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Same here, except

I don't loathe the phones, just some of the asswrenches who use 'em.

[VenusRising]

18. You're right.

It's not the phones' fault that the people yakking on them in the car are jackasses. :D

[Lex]

11. Yes, needed for work and for personal use.

That's not an option on the poll, however.

[Rhythm]

12. Personal... but it's a pre-paid, and it is our primary telecommunication device.

We have no land-line phone, and are out of the house during the hours that LyricKid is in school, so we have to be in touch with the school when they need us.

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13. I was going to ask so many questions in the OP. Like "Do you think it's safe?"

I'd bet many use them and don't give a second thought about their safety.

I sell them. And I use one. But only when necessary, and I keep the calls very, very short.

[grace0418]

14. Use it for business and personal. And I'm a freelancer so it's good to be able to check

my emails no matter where I am. You never know when a job will come up, and clients never seem to remember that you told them "I'll be out all afternoon tomorrow, so email me in the morning if you need anything."

[Jamastiene]

16. I voted for work online, but it's more for emergency only.

That's the only real reason I ever use it. I use email, Myspace, FB, and DU for most of my communication, including local real life friends. It's just easier that way.

[MrSlayer]

17. Yeah. I don't know why I even keep the land line.

Seems pointless.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Other: work and home both.

I don't have a land line anymore; haven't in a couple of years, so my personal cell phone is my only phone.

At work, I do have a land line, but also a cell phone, which I take with me when I go out on appointments.

[Callalily]

20. Cell phone is

all I have.

[amyrose2712]

21. Up until last year I hated them...

now I am addicted to my crackberry. I hate that I love it. Tons of cognitive dissonance going on in my head.

[whistler162]

22. Yup... Virgin Atlantic

<$20 every three months.

[raccoon]

23. Not yet. I guess I'm one of the few living people who don't have one. I keep saying I'll get one

for emergencies. Maybe I will one day.

[Arkansas Granny]

24. I own a cell phone because my kids gave me a cell phone. It's a

prepaid phone and I rarely use it, although I do keep it charged and with me. It makes them feel better to know that I have one in case of emergency. I would not have one if left to my own devices.

[av8rdave]

25. I vowed I would never have one, but when my daughter was diagnosed with diabetes...

[Roon]

26. I was amazed when I was downtown yesterday

how many people will be talking and texting while they are walking around. It's been like this for awhile, but yesterday was the first time i really noticed it.

[dysfunctional press]

27. i have a cingular 'pay-as-you-go phone...at 25 cents/minute, i used $80 worth last year...

i don't do much cell-phoning.

[Doc_Technical]

28. Another Trakfone user here.

I use it about 8 times per year.
I wish Trakfone had a 30 minute pre-pay card.

[bigwillq]

29. Use it for work and personal.

Pretty much a must have.

[SacredCow]

30. Technically, I have 3....

One is work-provided (AT&T).

One is my "home" phone- after I got divorced, I got a new Verizon account and don't intend on having a landline again.

Finally, I have my OnStar phone, which is on a family-share plan with my Verizon account. It's nice to be able to use the phone in the car and not have a dorky bluetooth thing hanging on my ear! But it probably looks like I'm talking to myself in the car!

[Left Is Write]

31. I use my phone for work and personal business.

I don't use my landline phone - we keep it for satellite TV updates and our security system only.

My cell phone is my primary source of communication with most people. I carry it all the time.

[tinkerbell41]

32. Yes Personal

Dropped my landline 3 yrs ago. I'd get a bill for 60 bucks with only 10 of that in actual phone calls

[flvegan]

33. Two of them.

Personal cell that I also use for work from time to time, and a corporate issued Q just for work.

[Rambis]

34. Got tired of

paying for it so I went to tracfone and only use it for emergencies- I am much happier that no one can get a hold of me.

[myrna minx]

35. I pay $20 every 3 months for my virgin mobile pay as you go.

I only use it for emergencies and if my minutes go unused, they roll over. It works rather well for me.

[tabbycat31]

36. yes, and it's my only phone