Nags1965

How did we survive years ago without cell phones and text messages?

how did we survive years ago without a microwave? the microwave changed my life. popcorn in less then 2 minutes..

how are things different for you now then years ago?

FL CommunityFans

Debit cards have replaced cash.

Nags1965

cash and checks... I am a first class swipper

I suppose computers and the net are also a big change. Man had i had the "information highway" when i was growing up.. I probably would still be at home in my parents bedroom LOL

Martinismommy

I can't remember how to write a check because of online banking....I actually wish we could go back to the good old days when things were more personal..E-mails have replaced phone calls...And cell phones are like having a LoJack on your hiney!

Nags1965

ive gotten quite good at texting and driving

**disclaimer**
KIDS DONT TRY THIS YOURSELF... ITS NAUGHTY TO TEXT AND DRIVE AT THE SAME TIME!

mrsmuffin

I tell my 16-year-old all the time to do as I say, not as I do...

I can't imagine life anymore without cell phones, the internet, and Google!

Nags1965

AMEN sister

I now have that unlimited text package with Verizon. Im a texting fool. and i dont know why when its so much more time consuming then just dialing and talking LOL..

FL CommunityFans

This is good when you have daughters that will be teens one day!!! =D

Halibut

Big +1 to that now I can find of all the mustang info I need , I could have used this info 20 years ago when I was wrenching in my dads garage, ofcourse money was an issue then too LOL.

Martinismommy

That's true but.....I managed to raise 5 kids 2 girls and 3 boys without one

Nags1965

Now a days.. i dread swim suit shopping always before it wasnt an issue.. I think it comes with that over 40 thing LOL

FL CommunityFans

That may be true, but they didn't have those nasty little phones either. Constantly texting each other during dinner, or in the middle of the night planning their sneak out. When they do sneak out - the phone gps will have them founded out indeedy! =D

FL CommunityFans

Nope.. my wife dreads it just as much... course she's still ****y about the c-section scar, so I listen to her like a good man should, then I go find a random pair of board shorts and call it a day

Nags1965

LMAO.. thats about all you can do..LOL

lalynya

Barely anyone ever calls me but I still couldn't live without my cell phone..I have to look at it every two seconds....But I like myspace only because I am horrible with keeping in touch with people. Being in the army and having to move around a lot makes it hard but myspace has reunited me with a lot of people

Nags1965

myspace..facebook are 2 things i just never really figured out and got into. My sister gave me the "myspace for dummies" course and I guess I passed as i have a myspace page.. but i never check it.. I cant find my friends.. I dunno maybe that is just more for the younger crowd.

I crack myself up with the texting.. my eyes started to go with my age LOL and i cant hardly see the letters.. so i have them all set to my memory.. LOL i can pretty much text and never look at tthe phone.

Lucy

Cell phones, I love them, I hate them!

Convenient when you have kids......

Me: Text me when you get there.
Them: Yes, mom

Them texting to Me: I'm here safe. (of course you can't see the rolling of the eyes, but you KNOW they're doing it).

Me texting to Them: Text me when you leave, love you!

Them texting to Me: Yes, mom, love you! (again, you can't see the rolling of the eyes, but you KNOW they're doing it again).

Instant messaging, I swear I talk to my daughter more now than before she left for college! Saves big time on phone bills.
Oh, and being able to call her computer and talk, it's great.

It's amazing how fast kids can text.

Nags1965

LOL they do have that "eye roll" thing down, dont they? I can remember doing that to MY mom back in the day. Thats what is so funny about my kid. he acts like he invented it.. he has no idea ive been there done that...

Ive seen the kids in the mall and their fingers FLY over the phone when texting. Im not fast.. but i get the job done LOL

Angela_96

Let's see.. 10 years ago..I was walking to work/college for exersise and it was so close to my house... I was also an assistant mangager of a skating rink at that time.. and I was only 20... pretty cool I thought (of coarse I had worked at one since I was 13 getting paid under the table for giving lessons and working the dj booth)... So needless to say I was a lot THINNER! from all the exercise!

Um.. I didn't have a cell phone eventhough I wanted one. I was just getting used to using the internet at that time, and "chat rooms" were big.

I do remember moms first microwave.. she used it until I was 18... she bought it in the late 70's.. my dad was a coal miner and they lived in a coal camp then, she bought it at the company store... (I love those company store, coal camp stories anything about life back then!) Coal mining was huge in my dads family. That microwave rocked! It worked for that long perfectly!

The internet def was the biggest thing for me! I couldn't get over the first time I got online, in high school... and I thought it was sooo cool! then I was way out of school before I could get mom to get me a comp.

Gamer

I've become a creature of comfort that's for sure. There are so many push button conviences at my disposal that I did not have or didn't know about a decade or so ago. Things I cannot do without now that I had to go without 10 or so years ago would include cell phone and the internet. I grew up without it, without the information highway, an email, instant messaging or online retailers to purchase ANYTHING I desire. Music as well. Years ago I'd buy CD's all the time whereas now my CD collection is collecting dust because I don't listen to them or add any albums to it since any song or full album I'd want I can get on mp3...

Nags1965

I agree with the push button stuff. I mean hey.. why get up and crank a dial when you can just grab up one of 15 remotes and do it LOL..

Angela_96

Its pretty bad when my grandmother gave me down the road this morning for missing half of the newspaper... my hairdresser got arrested for dui... so I can't get a haircut this week... .just my luck! I eat breakfast at the comp desk reading the news instead of watching it on tv, and to cheap to buy newspapers.. but its actually better because it saves trees!

COBettaCouple

What about HDtv and 1000 channels with nothing on?

I am a txting addict too.. I have to have the unlimited package or those 1000s of txts would make a monster bill! Yes, I txt & drive too.. but I've only run over 3 poodles, 2 elderly people and a penquin.

Nags1965

LOL.. now thats funny...

You have my record beat.. the penquins cant survive in this TN humidity LOL

COBettaCouple

I'll save you a drumstick, then.

mrsmuffin

Myspace is GREAT for keeping up with what the teenager (and his friends) are up to, though. So is snooping and reading text messages that they forget to delete...

COBettaCouple

I setup a myspace page, which got deleted for some reason. Never did get a reply from them to many inquiries of "why?". We have a 2nd one setup now, but I never update it anymore and find it easier to just text people or IM them.

Angela_96

You know the funniest "coming of the ages" that I have seen in a long time was my mom... she fought against having a cell phone all these years and finally a month ago got one.... shes hilarious!! I will go over to her house and she is one of those "jealous" wives.. she picks up my stepdads cellphones accusing him of texting where it has the automatic sentences put in it.... shes just learned how to take pictures, play w/ the ringtones...

Then there was my fil... he finally got a computer.. and internet completly computer illiterate people! always calling asking me how to do simple stuff.. hes got more spyware, virus's on his computer than I have ever seen anyone get and I don't know how?? I have had to wipe his comp clean and start him over twice... he was trying to get his dial up internet started up on the comp last night (he just bought a new comp because the old one was so tore up where he kept tearing it up) and I cracked up listening to him try to do this by himself... I will go over there sometime today and fix it.... (illiterate) redneck and computer do not mix!

COBettaCouple

LOL.. between my parents & Stacy's.. I feel your pain!

Angela_96

Yep.. I had to go over there and get his comp on the internet for him today.. I knew it! Then it was can you fix it to click on the news, weather.. all that stuff...
Not to mention, while I was over there I had to get my mil's stuffed full fishtank water for testing... (we won't talk about that or the results we all know what they were and how she just didn't have the time for a water change and couldn't understand why in the world the chem would be off for many days at a time)...

anywho... my fil.. back to his comp.. got out the messed up one.. and said it won't accept his password?? he forgot the password he put in it to logon!