These freak me out a bit. I’m sure that many of my readers use them, but this technology creeps me out hard core. It’s like the first stage to being one with the borg (I’m no Trekkie, so I hope that I used that in the right way).
Imagine, for a second, those old school head sets that we used to use like three years ago. You know, the ones that sit on your head like head gear, they’ve got the mouth piece that comes around all the way to your mouth. Could you imagine if someone walked around with one of those on their heads all the time? Wouldn’t we all want to stone people who did that? (if your answer is yes…please don’t make it known)
Ok, so you’ve got a cool Bluetooth hands free ear bud thing, but do you have to leave it on your head all the time? I never know when you’re on the phone and when you’re talking to me! I always feel like I’m interrupting a conversation. I just don’t like it. It’s weird. It’s rude. It’s…creepy.
Dear Bluetoothers,
The rest of us keep our phones in our pockets. When the phone rings we pull it out and put it up to our ear. When the conversation is over, well, we put it back in our pocket. I understand that your phone is much cooler than most of ours, that holding your blackberry up to your ear would look silly, your arm might get tired, etc. But maybe you could just put up your borg earpiece into your ear only when you’re on the phone? Or at the very least, maybe you could just take it out of your ear when you’re out at dinner with your wife and kids! Please understand, I know you’re important, but please, just do it for the kids. They are our future.
Thanks.
ryan
Imagine, for a second, those old school head sets that we used to use like three years ago. You know, the ones that sit on your head like head gear, they’ve got the mouth piece that comes around all the way to your mouth. Could you imagine if someone walked around with one of those on their heads all the time? Wouldn’t we all want to stone people who did that? (if your answer is yes…please don’t make it known)
Ok, so you’ve got a cool Bluetooth hands free ear bud thing, but do you have to leave it on your head all the time? I never know when you’re on the phone and when you’re talking to me! I always feel like I’m interrupting a conversation. I just don’t like it. It’s weird. It’s rude. It’s…creepy.
Dear Bluetoothers,
The rest of us keep our phones in our pockets. When the phone rings we pull it out and put it up to our ear. When the conversation is over, well, we put it back in our pocket. I understand that your phone is much cooler than most of ours, that holding your blackberry up to your ear would look silly, your arm might get tired, etc. But maybe you could just put up your borg earpiece into your ear only when you’re on the phone? Or at the very least, maybe you could just take it out of your ear when you’re out at dinner with your wife and kids! Please understand, I know you’re important, but please, just do it for the kids. They are our future.
Thanks.
ryan
I am so glad you wrote this. I have hated these things since I first saw them. Seriously, why do they wear them ALL THE TIME??? Like 4 people in my office have them and all day walk around with it, even when they use the office phones. I once saw a 14 yr old boy walking to school with one in his ear. and he wasn't talking so you know he just thought he looked cool. I've decided that is the newest status symbol of our time and people just think they look really important with a cochroach in their ear.
"cochroach" Thats good. I'm using that from now on.
There is a Bluetooth headset I want, but it's for my office phone while I work (Plantronics, $325 US, my birthday is January 29th) and that's only so I don't have cords running all over my desk and so I can run to the copy room without hanging up on one of my Brokers. Aside from the professional world (and by that I mean physically IN the office) I can't see much need for these things. I mean, I suppose if you HAVE to make a call while driving, a Bluetooth is the next best thing to paying attention to the road, but you do NOT need to wear one (1) at a meal, (2) while walking down the street, (3) in the bathroom (oh, it happens!) and (4) whenever you are not on the phone! I know someone (no names here) who wants to start an Underground Millitia that roams the streets and slaps anyone misusing the Bluetooth right square in the Bluetooth.Now, the Bluetooth technology in itself is pretty cool – instantanious real-time transfering of data between "smart" electronics can be a very powerful tool. Then again, the guy that wears it all the time is also a tool, just a different kind…
Oh yes, we love the bluetooth technology. What we hate is it's public use. I completely agree.
some of us hate all "convenience" technology. I'm starting to despise my cell phone. But I guess I have to have a phone and a celly cell is the most effecient way for me to do it with all the moving I do. Dear Diary:Bluetooth makes you look stupid, not cool like you think.thanks, me.And for the record, "teaching" students with computers rather than real teachers … that's not teaching (this is my frustration for the semester)thankyouandgoodnight.
i agree totally! i think if i needed it for work fine, i can see that, but like at target, cmon people your not that important!
I don't have bluetooth (or any blue teeth for that matter) but maybe to look cool, I will duct tape my regular cell phone to my ear. Then I can roam and talk freely, with both hands available for use.
ingenious ronald, ingenious.we have the B.T. cochroaches- they came free with our phones, but we have never used them and we hate them. i hate roaches.
Time for another good idea/ bad idea. Good idea: use a hands free headset while you talk on the phone, and take it off when you are done. Bad idea: close up your ear canal so that it becomes a warm, damp space and leave it that way so that bacteria can have their way with you.Deep thought: Heidegger thought that technological development was destroying the nobility of humanity . . . of course, he also thought that the answer was National Socialism (i.e. Nazism).
Okay, I confess. I, too, have been swept up by the status symbol wave. Sometimes I take this way-cool buckle off of one of Brenda's belts, and poke that little belt buckle in my ear when I am in public places. People notice. I am adicted to those admiring glances and other toothers who consistently give me a wink and a knowing nod.
Does that mean I'm a Nazi because I loathe those stupid Bluetooth things? Because they inspire a rage heretofore reserved for onions and frat boys.
Sign me up for the Undergroud Militia!