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Posted by razano on 05.03.2008
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Posted by Mamod on 10.03.2008
 

oops, sorry I didn't notice alma's question for me

This is what I like about questler :) Razan posted a discovery about mobile usage in Jordan and we ended up discussing my sensitive mobile issue :))

Not in my case, I wasn't upset at all, the thing is that I was too busy to answer my friends calls who will ask me to do things and since I can't say no I'll do it anyway, even if I have other important things to work on :)

With Mobiles you feel that you don't own your self, you can't be free any minute during the day, you're just like a big corporation support center 24/7 days a week.

Now I'm almost free for my friends, but after leaving them for that long they got my placed filled with another dude "it's only requires 4 to distribute playing cards" :) so I'm now home typing this comment instead:)) LOL

Posted by alma on 08.03.2008
 

I think it is expected to want to use English as a language on mobiles; most technologies are Latin friendly, much more than any other language.

Posted by SXTZ on 08.03.2008
 

I am a proud card carrying member of the 10% although for other reasons... I just can't deal with the arabic, I don't mind getting messages in arabic etc, but it is also like when I chat it is in english and the other languages I know.

Guess it is because I spoke english before anything else. :-)

Posted by alma on 07.03.2008
 

Heheheee. I thought the engagement was a real thing. Well, congratulations at rejoining the social life!

I have often heard that in the Arab world, and probably in other super social societies, privacy and spending time alone are not activities that are understood; i.e. if I spend time alone I must be upset about something. Why do you think that is?

 

Posted by Mamod on 07.03.2008
 

Hope you saw "Kidding" when I wrote "I got engaded" :)

You're right about social life and maybe this is why I didn't get a Mobile, it's simply because I didn't want to have a social life for some period in my life, except of course with my family who are always around me.

Posted by alma on 07.03.2008
 

Congratulations on getting engaged!

No, I do not think it is strange that you did not have a mobile. Sometimes i feel that if I lived alone I would not have a mobile. But what I find amusing in Amman and the world generally is that when I did not have a cell phone I did not have a social life. Thus, I now have a mobile so I can have a social life!

Posted by Mamod on 07.03.2008
 

I got engaged :)) No kidding

Well, it's a long story and to be totally honest I had a Cell once before for 3 months and

  1. I was busy so I had to cut the easiest way for disturbance.
  2. It wasn't of a real use, I found it a tool with negatives more than positivs. "That was then"

I don't want to look weirdo because of not having a Mobile, do you find it a weird thing?

Now things kinda changed, I need a Cell because it is needed at this time, who knows maybe few months later I turn it off again :)

Posted by alma on 06.03.2008
 

Wow, only two weeks ago? What made you change your mind and use a mobile?

Posted by Mamod on 06.03.2008
 

For me, I prefer it like this: Interface in english, messages and jokes in Arabic because they are way funnier than english jokes :)

Anyway, I just started using mobiles 2 weeks ago, so I don't think I was included in this statistics.

Posted by Shalabieh on 06.03.2008
 

I am sorry but I am guilty of being of the 10% users. I have trouble typing the english and doing so efficiently, it would be very fustrating for me to work in Arabic ....

Posted by alma on 05.03.2008
 

i am becoming one of the 90%. It is defiantly hard to switch languages, but worth learning.