“One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.” FriendshipWatchesTelevisionActivityMy FavoritePhonesMy Best Friend Author:Susan Orlean
“Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I get text messages on my cell phone all day long, and it warbles to alert me that someone has sent me a message on Facebook or a reply or direct message on Twitter, but it rarely ever rings.” LongMessagesDirectSurprisePhonesRingsCellsCell PhonePhone CallsTextingText MessageMailing Author:Susan Orlean
“I have no idea how to get in touch with anyone anymore. Everyone, it seems, has a home phone, a cell phone, a regular e-mail account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, and a Web site. Some of them also have a Google Voice number. There are the sentimental few who still have fax machines.” StillsIdeasHomeSeemsVoiceNumbersMachinesAccountsPhonesCellsNo IdeaMailGoogleSiteSentimentalCell PhoneFaxFax Machines Author:Susan Orlean
“I've tried a lot of different apps to manage Twitter on my phone (I use Hootsuite on my laptop), but I think the official Twitter app is really good.” ThinkingDifferentUsePhonesManageOfficialsLaptopsApps Author:Susan Orlean
“I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster work at home? Then how likely is he to have his cell phone on? Is he one of those people who only turns on his cell when he's in his car? I hate that.” PeopleKnowsWantDoeHomeHateTurnsCarMy FriendsI HatePhonesDinnerCellsTonightCell PhoneBusters Author:Susan Orlean
“When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were flamboyant with your spending. Then phone calls became as cheap as dirt and as constant as rain, and I was on the phone all the time.” LongMadeKidsLinesRainConstantDistanceRatePhonesSpendingDirtCommodityElevenPhone CallsLong DistancePremiumFlamboyant Author:Susan Orlean
“Recently, I have come to assume that any call to my landline is from a telemarketer or an automated call from Terminex, letting me know that our regularly scheduled pest-extermination service will occur on its regular schedule. So I usually ignore my home phone.” KnowsHomeAssumingPhonesSchedulesExterminationPests Author:Susan Orlean
“You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.” ThinkingSelfStatesOur LivesCrazySecurityInternetSmartCamerasPhonesDataTrailsVery SmartCrumbsTracking Author:Susan Orlean
