I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off.
If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It's always on silent, and I don't like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.
I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.
I hate the amount of communication, the obligation that you have just by owning a phone.
You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
To be honest, I hate silence.
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
I use the traditional phone noise that's built into iOS. I like an actual ringing sound.
There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.