so when did you get a cell phone

[aviolentworld]

how old were you?

i am almost 30 and didnt get mine till i was 20. i have a 12 and 9 year old sister and they can handle my new droid better than i can. its amazing how young people are getting cell phones these days. granted it is good for security reasons and the whole tracking them thing but sometimes i think i am just getting to old.....hahaha.

[controlthebleeding]

i got one in 96'. it was about as big as some regular wireless home phones now.

[aviolentworld]

i got one in 96'. it was about as big as some regular wireless home phones now.

was this the phone old man

[exitenglish1208]

i think i was like 13...none of my friends had them though so it was more or less useless

[silentgods]

21.

[andrew13]

16 i think? maybe 17. didn't have it too long before i got a different phone that actually had a camera and stuff you could do on it.

[smailtronic]

I got my first phone in the summer of 2000, so I would've been 20.

My wife teaches 5th and 6th grade, and they didn't believe her when she told them that she didn't get her first cell phone until she was in college. Her kids are predominantly lower income and they all have phones. Many have smartphones, to boot.

[rtw88]

I didn't get one until 9th grade I believe, which would have been 8 years ago.

[kurtmanner]

I was 16, so 7 years ago. My parents got it for my when I got my driver's license.

[immigrationproblem]

When I was 18 I got a decent paying job so I went out and got a phone...all my friends already had one. I came home and my dad's like "well maybe we should get a family plan and your little bro and sis could have one too" So I said sure and that I would pay them for my portion...that was four years ago and I haven't given them a dime!

I tried to be responsible, but whatever!

[controlthebleeding]

i got one in 96'. it was about as big as some regular wireless home phones now.

was this the phone old man

not quite...

here you go:

fuck you for calling me a old man...

but i do remember these:

[zac]

I was 14 so I think it was 2002.

[aviolentworld]

I got my first phone in the summer of 2000, so I would've been 20.

My wife teaches 5th and 6th grade, and they didn't believe her when she told them that she didn't get her first cell phone until she was in college. Her kids are predominantly lower income and they all have phones. Many have smartphones, to boot.

yeah you didnt see any cell phones when i was in highschool. its hard to imagine 5th graders having them.

what is the policy on that now a days in schools. that has to be a huge distraction.

[kyacrash]

I got one when I was a junior in HS, 2001. Most of my friends already had them but they were all older than me. There weren't too many people my age that had them at the time.

[oakland]

I made it to 30 without one. Then my wife was about to have our kid and I couldn't justify being out of contact when it's so easy. I fucking hate those things though. One more expensive thing to clutter up my pockets.

[saxamaphone]

2005, 19, got this:

Still in use, I don't care how outdated it is.

[manicdogbert]

1997, i was 22. i got one to celebrate leaving a shitty job. (unknowingly moving on to another shitty job.)

[blanketbyday]

18 so 8 years ago. The Service was Cricket. Their Prices are still the same; $50 a month unlimited everything.

[Guest eriathomas]

I had one when I was a sophomore of high school, then got rid of it since I never used it. I got a new plan my senior year, and have been using one since.

[Guest]

I got one 8 years ago, come September.

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

1999, i was 18

[mcm1610]

I'm about to turn 24 now. I got a pager when I was 13 or 14 because my mom wanted to get ahold of me. She got me a cell phone when I was 16 because she figured I should have one when I drive in case something happens, but also because I went to my friend's house and didn't come back for 3 days and never responded to her pages and she was furious. She thought getting me a cell phone would mean I have to just answer the phone, not find a phone to return the calls.

[jhamm212]

my mom had that phone, there was like a briefcase to carry it around in.

and I got my first one my sophomore year of high school, so 2004ish.

[Just Another Tom]

1997, i was 13. It was a Phillips Diga. I only think i used it about 10 times (mobiles are no use if no one else has a phone). The Sim card was the same size as a credit card.

[mcm1610]

I'm pretty sure house phones have coexisted with cell phones, so I don't understand why everyone says having a mobile is useless when you're the only one.