2008 Woodie Awards
Boycotting technology
Arnetha Pierce
Issue date: 10/11/06 Section: Opinion
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Just call me a technophobe. I'm still using 8-track tapes, cassettes, and 33 and 45 records. I have real music that I can understand. What is up with this boom, boom, boom, that they call music?
CDs and iPod's
CDs I can do without. The claim is the sound is better, but I beg to differ. It's just another way to make money selling the CD player. And to stick that new gadget in my ear, called an iPod is out of the question. I'll be losing my hearing soon enough, without blowing it out with that iPod.
Cell phones
For me to buy a cell phone is like asking me to stick my head in a microwave oven. I heard that using a cell phone causes brain tumors. They are hazardous to your health.
Have you read about how many people who are talking on a cell phone while driving cause accidents? And many users are so disrespectful. Instead of turning their cell phones off, you might hear one go off at a funeral or in class. On the bus just the other day, a woman was talking so loud on her cell phone, she sounded as though she was in a deep hole, screaming for help.
What can be that important, that you see some people on their cell phone leaving home, driving, at the bus stop, walking from class to class, and of all things eating lunch or dinner? This sounds like an addiction to me. Aren't phone calls suppose to be personal? I don't want to hear your conversations.
Telephone features
I have a telephone, minus the entire annoying features, of caller ID, call-and-wait, caller return, and blocking, which costs extra money. I couldn't care less who's calling me; if I do not recognize the caller, it won't cost me a dime to just hang up. The most annoying feature is call-and-wait. This is a feature that I have no control over; however, if you call me and put me on hold for more than 30 seconds, I'm hanging up.
Cable television
Just give me basic cable television! The cable companies bug me constantly, to ask me to up grade my cable service. No way. What do I up grade it to? There are duplicate programs. Channels 10 and 18, 8 and 11, 3 and 5, and 35 and 72, all have the same programs. So do I up grade to triplet programming?
CDs and iPod's
CDs I can do without. The claim is the sound is better, but I beg to differ. It's just another way to make money selling the CD player. And to stick that new gadget in my ear, called an iPod is out of the question. I'll be losing my hearing soon enough, without blowing it out with that iPod.
Cell phones
For me to buy a cell phone is like asking me to stick my head in a microwave oven. I heard that using a cell phone causes brain tumors. They are hazardous to your health.
Have you read about how many people who are talking on a cell phone while driving cause accidents? And many users are so disrespectful. Instead of turning their cell phones off, you might hear one go off at a funeral or in class. On the bus just the other day, a woman was talking so loud on her cell phone, she sounded as though she was in a deep hole, screaming for help.
What can be that important, that you see some people on their cell phone leaving home, driving, at the bus stop, walking from class to class, and of all things eating lunch or dinner? This sounds like an addiction to me. Aren't phone calls suppose to be personal? I don't want to hear your conversations.
Telephone features
I have a telephone, minus the entire annoying features, of caller ID, call-and-wait, caller return, and blocking, which costs extra money. I couldn't care less who's calling me; if I do not recognize the caller, it won't cost me a dime to just hang up. The most annoying feature is call-and-wait. This is a feature that I have no control over; however, if you call me and put me on hold for more than 30 seconds, I'm hanging up.
Cable television
Just give me basic cable television! The cable companies bug me constantly, to ask me to up grade my cable service. No way. What do I up grade it to? There are duplicate programs. Channels 10 and 18, 8 and 11, 3 and 5, and 35 and 72, all have the same programs. So do I up grade to triplet programming?
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