Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Mobile Phones, Phone Charges and Social Networking Contacts

Mobile phones are called cell phones in the US and Canada and here in Australia they come with some heavy call charges. For some reason best known to Telstra and other phone company shareholders, they have decreed that mobile phones are much more expensive to operate than any other phone service with the exception of a satellite phone.

Satellite phone call charges I can understand as being out of this world but for the life of me, I can' t come to any other conclusion than the profit factor when it comes to mobile phones. Frankly, my motto is now "use it only when I'm about to lose it" in other words only in extreme emergency.

I see so many young people getting themselves financially thrashed by phone companies because of these excessive charges attached to mobile phones. Even the cost of texting in the quantities that many youngsters text today gets expensive.

Mobile phone contact lists are good and essential for storing names and phone numbers but if they are to use them they cost "big-time". So many people today keep all their contacts in their mobile phone but what happens when they lose their phone? And it happens far too often for most people to realise just how many phones for example, get left behind in Taxi's. It's only if you have ever worked for a taxi company on a Saturday or Sunday morning that you get to hear the wail of despair.

Today you don't have to rely on keeping all your friend's contact details in a mobile phone that could easily get stolen or lost. Or worse still, every time you wanted to make contact with someone it was going to cost you a heap of money. Now you can store all their personal details on a Minglestick which is attached to your key chain or key ring and login to one or more of their social book marking sites or just send them an email. Phones don't usually allow for all this information to be exchanged or made available so readily so next time you want to really stay in touch securely with someone special do it with a Minglestick.





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