Don't have one, don't need one, don't really want one

There could be a problem for those of you who don't keep up with technology.

Time will come before too long when you will need your phone and banking app to pay for most things. Best to keep up.

I love mine! I fought against having one for a while when they were the size of a house brick. Then I broke down on the way to work in the middle of nowhere and had to walk a mile or so to ring the AA. Then I got one! At first I had it turned off except when I needed to use it but then my children badgered me to leave it on. One of the best things is that I use Facebook Messenger to ring my brother and sister in Australia, and it’s free! The camera is amazing too. I sometimes think how much my father would have loved my iPhone. He was always so interested in new technology. I remember when I was quite small, he took my brother, sister and I to see the new photocopier he had bought for his office.

Mine has become a necessity and I prefer to have it incase of emergencies. I'm glad I learned to use one. For me personally, I feel you have to try and move with the times, but appreciate everybody is different. If I want a bit peace, I put it on silent for an hour or so. I rule the phone, it doesn't rule me.

You can’t pay for parking in this area if you don’t have a phone. Even if you pay by bank card, you still have to phone to do that. On one level, I think it’s wrong to make life more difficult for some people but on the other hand, it’s not a hill I’d be prepared to die on.

I use my phone a fair bit and wouldn’t want to be without one now.

I can’t imagine the circumstances you would need to live in not to find a mobile useful - maybe in a care home, if you have access to a phone but are unable to make calls for yourself. Otherwise, it’s invaluable, it removes so much hassle from your life. I use mine for sat nav., as a route planner, to be able to talk to people and drive at the same time, to make contactless payments, to check facts on the move, to take photos of plants I like and identify them, to scan the code when I go to museums etc. and get the guided tour narrative and to check my local shops have something before I make a trip, as well as the usual phone calls and internet use. - and probably more that didn’t immediately come to mind too. My parents are both in their nineties and they have them too, it provides them with reassurance when they are apart doing different things. Mobiles are one of the most useful things to have come out of the last 50 years I think.

Oh I forgot banking and paying etc when I wrote my lists of what I do with it
I really would feel like going back to the 1900 s without it

I was very much like you regarding the mobile phone CountessFosco then I got a basic one and now upgraded to the full works. I use it all the time and would find life more difficult without it. Living in rural France mobiles are not used quite so much as UK for example paying parking charges or bills etc. I'm sure it will happen though. Start with a basic phone and see how you get on, I think as you say they are becoming a necessity now. I came unstuck only today trying to get travel insurance, couldn't get a code sent to me from the bank as I don't do on line banking. Still a way for me to go it seems.

I suppose it all depends on your lifestyle. I suppose I could be without one if they suddenly disappeared but why go without this wonderful piece of technology.
Plus I haven’t had a landline since the year 2000.

I couldn’t do without one. It’s my personal bodyguard. I feel safe with it, when I’m in the car, walking around or even at home. I even take it to the loo, especially after I learned recently, that my sis-in-law died while in the bathroom and was only found when her son went looking for her. Bit extreme reasons, I guess, but the fact remains, I cannot do without mine

I thought you were going to say 'a man'!

Entirely up to you but I know I wouldn’t like to be without mine it’s my encyclopaedia, my news, my social tool my learning means, my communication (especially with my overseas children, grandchildren, phone calls would cost a mint) it’s my alarm clock, my weather reporter ,I can enlarge the print which I can’t do with books easily
I would not like to be without it at all but if your happy that’s not anyone else business

I held off having one for years but when my brother was diagnosed with cancer he wanted me to have one so that he could get hold of me instantly..

If you don't feel you need one, don't get one, but I got one first for emergencies only. I used it for emergency calls twice and it cost very little as it was pay as you go. I was glad to have it on those occasions even though most of the time it was switched off.

In the early days of mobile phones, I lost mine, and decided not to replace it, despite my children nagging me.
Some years later our company provided us with mobile phones, but it’s so much more than a phone now, and I certainly wouldn’t want to be without it.
I no longer bother with a laptop, or desktop, everything I need is on my phone.

There is another gransnetter who doesn't have one, or didn't last I heard.