Do Children Need A Mobile

[cuttsie 1,089]

6 hours ago, Padders said:

2 tin cans and a length of wire.

There was Just one family with a phone on our estate , Mr Kitts he was manager of the Co Op .  If there was a   emergency the Kitts would let you use their phone , They had a box with a slot in the top to put your pennies in .

 

Go and ask Mrs Kitts if we can use phone was a regular occurrence .

 

Some times a lad on a motor bike would turn up on the estate with a telegram for some one,  usually bad news from army or hospital etc . People dreaded telegram lad pulling up outside .

Edited January 11, 2022 by cuttsie

[spilldig 188]

19 hours ago, cuttsie said:

There was Just one family with a phone on our estate , Mr Kitts he was manager of the Co Op .  If there was a   emergency the Kitts would let you use their phone , They had a box with a slot in the top to put your pennies in .

 

Go and ask Mrs Kitts if we can use phone was a regular occurrence .

 

Some times a lad on a motor bike would turn up on the estate with a telegram for some one,  usually bad news from army or hospital etc . People dreaded telegram lad pulling up outside .

No-one had a phone on our estate, there was just a pay phone about half a mile away.

[Padders 2,850]

6 minutes ago, spilldig said:

No-one had a phone on our estate, there was just a pay phone about half a mile away.

I remember them well,

Press button A.. if you couldn't get through press button B.. for a 4d refund.

Shove a bit of rag up the chute, and claim the refunds later in the day.

[cgksheff 44]

1 hour ago, Padders said:

I remember them well,

Press button A.. if you couldn't get through press button B.. for a 4d refund.

Shove a bit of rag up the chute, and claim the refunds later in the day.

.... and tap a call out for free!

[crookesey 632]

I just wonder how many past child assaults/murders could have been avoided If mobile’s had been readily available to them, the answer surely has got to be ‘some’.

[cuttsie 1,089]

6 minutes ago, crookesey said:

I just wonder how many past child assaults/murders could have been avoided If mobile’s had been readily available to them, the answer surely has got to be ‘some’.

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

[crookesey 632]

1 minute ago, cuttsie said:

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

True, wherever there’s a plus there’s a minus lurking behind it.

[PRESLEY 1,224]

1 hour ago, spilldig said:

No-one had a phone on our estate, there was just a pay phone about half a mile away.

Your lucky it was intact, BT stopped coming to repair the one at end our street after the kids blew it up one bonfire night. Madness. 

[crookesey 632]

8 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

Your lucky it was intact, BT stopped coming to repair the one at end our street after the kids blew it up one bonfire night. Madness. 

I’ve often wondered if a fully functioning pay phone could have saved the life of the nearest and dearest of the person who defunctioned it.

 

[ECCOnoob 1,021]

6 hours ago, cuttsie said:

On line grooming is now a epidemic due to the mobile era .

.....ah yes, grooming and luring of underage persons never happened in the analogue days of the 60s and 70s did it?   Bad people do bad people things no matter what technology. Crimes may evolve but it can hardly be blamed on the tools.

 

It's all well and good cherry picking through rose-tinted nostalgia about the so-called good old days but let's not also not forget how difficult, slow, and complex things were back then.... The days when there was one government mandated supplier of a phone line where you got told if and when you could have one and restricted to exactly what equipment they would allow......... The days when contacting relatives and acquaintances in the next city had to be a considered financial decision and very much limited, for most of us, to occasional , brief, off peak chat.   As for telecommunicating with relatives abroad forget it. Far too costly those early satellite line calls.  They just stuck with the odd letter and card......  The days when even the simplest transaction or communication would take an age with lots of agonising waits for the office secretary to finally transcribe the dictation of a letter and the postman to finally deliver it.

 

The fact is that the age of the computer isn't going away. Kids have to be tech ready from the moment they hit adult if not teenage life. Even the most basic of jobs from cleaning or warehouse involves a minimum level of technical ability and expectation of at least smartphone use if not computerised program use.   Even our homes are becoming the internet of everything with smart this, automated that, digital other.

 

Whilst I agree that has to be some control over mobile use particularly in the classroom, just like the working world, I feel it's only inevitable that most kids in the upper range of school-age will have to have a mobile of some sort.

Edited January 12, 2022 by ECCOnoob

[Annie Bynnol 612]

Many children have their bus pass on their smartphone.

Many children will have their bus/train season tickets on their smartphone.

Many children will be able to find out if their bus/train/taxi is on its way.

Many children can be notified by their parents about appointments, change to plans etc.

Having a smartphone is a big help in keeping children safe.

 

[cgksheff 44]

22 minutes ago, Annie Bynnol said:

Many children have their bus pass on their smartphone.

Many children will have their bus/train season tickets on their smartphone.

Many children will be able to find out if their bus/train/taxi is on its way.

Many children can be notified by their parents about appointments, change to plans etc.

Having a smartphone is a big help in keeping children safe.

 

I am not aware of a school that bans phones.

Nearly all insist that phones are kept (switched off) in bags and not used inside school.