Like I said, checking my phone is not a priority for me. But I just came in for a break from yard work. I fall into a chair and what do I do. Type in seniorsonly.club. I don't bookmark on this laptop. But it seems that is the first thing I do whenever I get in.
I do the same. I leave my laptop in "sleep" mode with tabs open all day. When I walk by I usually sit down for a minute and check a couple of forums and my email. It probably seems like I'm here all day but actually I just stroll by and open my laptop.
Same here, pretty much. Although I am at the computer most of the day, the forum is in a tab that I click into now and then. Pretty often, but I'm not sitting around waiting for someone to post something.
Lois, i am going thru this with my SIL and brother who seldom respond. He has dementia and she is not dependable. It is infuriating, when have had no response for days. Please reconsider at least letting someone know your okay, once or twice a week.
Since all of my family also has an iPhone, and an Apple Watch, we all use the find my friends app to see where each person is at. For some reason, my Apple Watch was not showing when we went somewhere, unless I also took my phone along. The phone thought I was still at home. Usually, if we are just going to the fitness center and straight back home, I do not bother with my purse or phone; but after Robin called Bobby because it looked like I was home, but I was not answering my phone (I was swimming, so the call didn’t show on the Apple Watch either), I have started making sure that I take the phone along wherever I am going also. It fits right inside the pocket of my gym backpack, so it is not a problem. It is definitely worrisome when you have family members and loved ones who are not responding when you try to call/text to see if they are doing okay. Just because a person is not a “phone person” and does not want to chat on the phone, is not a good reason to turn the phone off, in my opinion. Not only that, @Lois Winters , if something did happen, and you needed help but couldn’t call, your family would think that you were not answering because you had the phone turned off. We need to be accessible to our family at our ages.
Welllll, someday we will find a dehydrated Lois mummy sitting by her turned off phone. We can prop her up beside the juke box.
Frankly, once I'm gone, whatever happens after that moment is of little concern to me. I have people here who think of me every once in a while and wonder how I've been, but when I die I'll be one of "those stories." It will be a minimum of weeks before I'm peeled off of whatever furniture I'm stuck to...more likely months. And I won't be checking my messages. Nor will I be a modern-day Houdini and text you every Halloween.
Years ago I had a referral to a dentist who only does complicated root canals. Phone was in my purse on the other side of the room. It started ringing just when he started the drilling part. They kept calling, maybe 3 times. The dentist was clearly annoyed. Since then, I turn off the ring on my phone at any doctor/dentist appointment. Forget to turn it back on often. How often do I check? Depends on whether I think there's a chance someone might call. At most once a day unless I know a call/text is definitely going to happen. Then a few times. Because of this thread I changed the ring tone on the text messages on this new phone last night. I've missed several recently because the ring tone was too short and quiet.
Don't count on that, Mary. My phone isn't beside me ever, as I have far better things to do, than yak all day on one.
Same here. Many times I can't find my phone and it's in the bottom of my purse with a dead battery. We also keep our land line because it's "practically free" with our cable bundle. Our kids and family know they can always reach us on that number.
I barely use my phone for calls at all. Everyone in my family is always busy, and we send a text/iMessage to each other instead. We have a family chat, that is just me and my 3 kids (I use that term loosely, since they are all old enough to be a member of this forum), and we just add to the chat as we have something to say to each other. Phone calls are just if I need to make a doctor appointment, or something like that, so I am seldom on the phone for long doing that, and not very often. My phone is always on silent, so it never disturbs me or anyone else, because everything shows up on my watch. When I only had the phone, I missed calls because I didn’t hear it ringing if i was busy, or in a store, now I never miss anything, ever.
For times a day if the notification goes off.I have 3 people in my contact list so it rarely goes off.I love it when I hear the sound.
I do not have a cell phone so check it ZERO times a day ....(gasp!) However it seems I am just as addicted for I am almost constantly on the internet and do check my email many times a day. I did briefly have a passed along cell but found it way to complex with way too many bells and whistles for this old fellow, did get a simpler one but it was always dead when I rarely went to use it when away from the house. Its hardly a big deal for me as I rarely leave my 30 acre wooded hideaway and have little time for faceplace and the like that so many folk seem addicted to via their cell phones.