Talking about second phones…
As with all societal change, it tends to happen imperceptibly. And then you look back and remember how life was different.
I heard someone (honest) talking about their “shag phone” the other day. He was a married man having an affair with a lady who was also married. It seems that one of the first heady rituals of the affair was to purchase a “his and her” pair of Pre-pay shag phones.
Only they knew each other’s number, so when the phone rang, they could answer in an appropriately passionate way. While much the same effect could be achieved with caller recognition (assuming they were mobile literate), there was more than just a romantic gesture involved with this behaviour.
Technology still can’t hide your phone bill from a suspicious spouse. And it can’t hide your amour’s frequently dialed number from prying eyes. Better to get a pair pre-pay phones with no incriminating phone bills or records. A small example of how the mobile is impacting on 21st century life.
Not wanting to be a killjoy, but isn’t the presence of an unexplained new phone in your car/briefcase a bit of a giveaway?
Surely a better move would be to buy a different SimCard - much easier to hide.
Maybe - depends on the person I suppose.
I think we sometimes forget how untechnical the vast majority of people actally are. So changing Sims isn’t really something they’d feel comfortable with.
I read recently that 70% of Excel users don’t know that you can use it to add up columns/rows. They just use it to make figures look pretty
R
“societal change”?
I don’t really see how people planning their secret sexcapades on a mobile instead of from a phone booth is a “societal change”.
Well, Bjorn - thanks for the comment and dropping by.
Perhaps I should have said “representative of societal change”. The fact is that this kind of use of technology would have been unimaginable 10 years ago (and maybe 5 years ago).
So IMHO, that represents societal change.
If you disagree, what do you thing represents societal change?
Russell