technology Why do people depend so much on their cellphones?

[Motion Spark 7,807]

The cell phone is possibly one of the most useful tools of the modern age. I understand why people use it very often, but I don't understand why people use it so much. Text messages are intended to be quick messages sent between mobile phone users, so I think that longer conversations should be kept to instant messengers on PC. I, for one, often open Skype and spend hours on end just talking to people. Yet still people waste their phone credit/contract texts within 2 weeks.

that's the difference line right there!

 

ask anyone that owns a smartphone if they use the text message feature of their phones! NO! blatantly NO! sending a text message costs money, and pretty much the majority of phones can have installed Skype for mobile, they also have whatsapp or blackberry messenger and other IM apps.

I don't see the difference between the PC and the phone, why it is correct to be glued to your PC doing the exact same thing, but it's not ok if you do it with your phone?