sign of the times?

[trbig]

You got any more info on that?

What it is.. is as we get older, most of us lose the outer limits of our hearing.. very high and very low tones. They have a "Ring tone" that is just a solid pitch note that is higher than most over about 30-35 yo can hear. A couple years ago, I could hear it if I was fairly close to the phone's speaker, but man, you should have seen the younger ones squirming and shouting at you to quit it! lol.

Tod

[fredintoon]

What pisses me off? My wife was telling me the other day that they have created ringtones for cell phones that adults can't hear, and they market them at kids/teens... What has the world come to when cell phone companies are trying to enable the delinquency of the youth to turn a buck?

Hi '81,
to be fair, they are using that same technology to drive the little bastards out of shopping malls with obnoxious sounds that adults can't hear.

[Pat Kelly]

I think I got it

So, kids hear the Hannah Montana and Yugio ringtones but adults can't/won't hear them.
Kids ignore or are annoyed by sounds like "take the garbage out, mow the lawn, do your homework".

[kjohnson]

What pisses me off? My wife was telling me the other day that they have created ringtones for cell phones that adults can't hear, and they market them at kids/teens... What has the world come to when cell phone companies are trying to enable the delinquency of the youth to turn a buck?

On the flip side of that, there is also a market for devices that work the same way, kids/teens can hear but adults can't, that are annoying/painful to listen to. shop keeps are using them to deter congregations of youngsters in front of their shops.

[Ivan]

What pisses me off? My wife was telling me the other day that they have created ringtones for cell phones that adults can't hear, and they market them at kids/teens... What has the world come to when cell phone companies are trying to enable the delinquency of the youth to turn a buck?

Woah. I haven't heard of this. I really try to keep "in the know" about my kids lives and all the stuff they are exposed to. You got any more info on that? This is something I should really follow up on.

[81xsproject]

What pisses me off? My wife was telling me the other day that they have created ringtones for cell phones that adults can't hear, and they market them at kids/teens... What has the world come to when cell phone companies are trying to enable the delinquency of the youth to turn a buck?

[XSokieSPECIAL]

My kids know that i will allow about two texts on my phone, after that if they want me, they better call and talk. My 26 year old daughter, and my 28 year old Daughter in Law text crap all the time. With my fat fingers, and slow brain it would take ten minues to send a short message that way.

She has her own phone. That's how I keep track of her.

I can't texed either. Crap! I only use 1 finger when I type.

I won't say which one but it ain't my thumb.

[XS1100 Newbie]

My kids know that i will allow about two texts on my phone, after that if they want me, they better call and talk. My 26 year old daughter, and my 28 year old Daughter in Law text crap all the time. With my fat fingers, and slow brain it would take ten minues to send a short message that way.

[trbig]

Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries)

Trade in the DS and computer and pay your electric bills, ya bum!


Tod

[XSokieSPECIAL]

Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries) and my wife is texting my doughter at her friends house my son is playing DS and I am on the internet by virtue of an air card and laptop.

Sign of the times.

We wouldn't even have thought it possible not that long ago.

[DGXSER]

Interestingly enough, I am sitting in a house with no electricity (from the power company or a generator, just batteries) and my wife is texting my doughter at her friends house my son is playing DS and I am on the internet by virtue of an air card and laptop.

[tw1980]

I have 4 women in my life.1 wife and 3 grown daughters.They text back and forth daily and sometimes I communicate with my daughters by asking my wife to text them.Once in a while they actually use the phone to talk to someone.

Terry

[DGXSER]

That is all personality. I work in a field filled with introverted personalities, engineering. Most engineers prefer to be locked in a room with their thoughts and only bothered for food or sleep. I am a bit of a mix and more extroverted, so I like to talk, just ask the SWOXS folks. So I call people instead of texting or emailing. My boss is more of a sales type and he calls for anything.

[Montreux_Blue]

My boss texts me more than he calls me and I usually call him back to answer him which I don't think he likes. It just takes me longer to text it than to just tell him.

[79XS11F]

It's only going to get worse. My daughter who is 21 sends and receives well over a 100 test messages a day. It's like she never talks her phone any more. It's all text messaging.
Think about how many text messages would need to go back and forth for 2 girls to have a conversation as if they were chatting on the phone. Relationships are becoming less and less personal every year with this stuff. It's scares me.

Rob