{"id":10356,"date":"2019-12-13T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10356"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:13:15","slug":"when-cutting-the-cord-can-be-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/12\/13\/when-cutting-the-cord-can-be-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"When Cutting The Cord Can Be Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from The Atlantic<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the Loss of the Landline Is Changing Family Life<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

by \u00a0Julia Cho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Elzbieta Sekowska \/ Shutterstock \/ The Atlantic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

My tween will never know the sound of me calling her name from another room after the phone rings. She’ll never sit on our kitchen floor, refrigerator humming in the background, twisting a cord around her finger while talking to her best friend.\u00a0I’ll get it<\/em>,\u00a0He’s not here right now<\/em>, and\u00a0It’s for you<\/em>\u00a0are all phrases that are on their way out of the modern domestic vernacular.\u00a0According to the federal government<\/a>, the majority of American homes now use cellphones exclusively. \u201cWe don’t even have a landline anymore,\u201d people began to say proudly as the new millennium progressed. But this came with a quieter, secondary loss\u2014the loss of the shared social space of the family landline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe shared family phone served as an anchor for home,\u201d says Luke Fernandez, a visiting computer-science professor at Weber State University and a co-author of Bored, Lonely, Angry, Stupid: Feelings About Technology, From the Telegraph to Twitter<\/em><\/a>. \u201cHome is where you could be reached, and where you needed to go to pick up your messages.\u201d With smartphones, Fernandez says, \u201cwe have gained mobility and privacy. But the value of the home has been diminished, as has its capacity to guide and monitor family behavior and perhaps bind families more closely together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home telephone was a communal invention from the outset. \u201cWhen the telephone rang, friends and family gathered \u2019round, as mesmerized by its magic flow of electrons as they would later be by the radio,\u201d according to\u00a0Once Upon a Telephone<\/em>, a lighthearted 1994 social history of the technology. After the advent of the telephone,\u00a0in the late 19th century<\/a>, and through the mid-20th century, callers relied on switchboard operators who knew their customers\u2019 voices, party lines were shared by neighbors (who would often\u00a0eavesdrop on one another’s conversations<\/a>), and phone books functioned as a sort of map of a community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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