Lord Sullivan wrote...
Hey, I get that my enthusiasm is a little much, but it's all in good fun! 
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But on the "Another chat/social web/etc..." I hear you. I didn't feel like it at first, but I caved in
and thought what the f*** and joined. I figured that if I ever have a reason not to come to these
forums anymore, I'd have another place to quickly take part in discussions with NWNers elsewhere.
Yeah, I guess I can understand that bit.
However, I DO NOT HAVE a CELL PHONE! So, I can't actually verify my account, and they have no real intention of allowing the sms text messages via email. The intention of facebook is to garner as large a database of active mobile phone users as they can, and then spam those folks with text messages.
I have a regular phone, it costs a certain amount per month, and spammers typically hang up when they hear voice mail box info... At one time in my life I had a pager... hated that damned thing, and truly did not see a purpose for it. Company claimed they needed it to get into contact with me when I was OFF. Well, after the 3rd time I got paged at 3am for bullcrap, I gave it back to them and told them if it was an emergency, they could friggin pick up the phone and call me. If they got me fine, if not, then I was not available.
Worked out great after that.
These bills keep getting larger and larger, cell phones are expensive to operate. They don't work when you have a regional power outage yet a normal phone will. I don't need to be contacted via cell phone to be told that some friend is sitting in a line at a theater with nothing to do but bug me about it.
Hehe... I guess I am an old stick in the mud... slowly sinking deeper. I am getting more and more resistant to change as I slowly age and I have never gotten the point about cell phones, I certainly can see a usage in an emergency, but just to chat with folks while shopping at the mall? Nope, I can call them when I get home if I really need to.
My biggest issue is that I live in the North East Pennsylvania region, along the Apalachian mountain range... this means that cell service is spotty at best, and where my house is, on the north side of a mountain, I get no coverage at all from the nearest cell tower, so I have to drive 3 miles to get a signal... certainly not worth paying a monthly fee for a service I can't use.
