Yes, it was.

People didn't bump into me because they were too busy texting to watch where they were going, nor ignore their kids because they were nattering on their mobiles.

I couldn't prove Mr Yogi wrong on a daily basis, by googling.

I didn't spend hours on here.

That about sums it up On the plus side though you couldn't see family that lived far away and chat face to face  

Another positive is that we don't need to hunt for a phone box that hasn't been vandalised, when we are out and about and need to make a call.

It was great, we talked and laughed together, argued and fought together, kissed and made up together, watched, listened, or read the 'News' together, but, there was unity ................ I think.....

It was very different ....

it was crap...you'd spend hours trying to get your walkie talkies to stop buzzing so you could ask your friend next door to come out to play, it was quicker knocking 

People actually spoke to each other...face to face 

Including the evil aunt that we always hid from and pretended to be out when she turned up and knocked the front door!

I didn't have an evil aunt    I had evil people that pretended to be my friends at school and they would come knocking on our door and bothering us and keeping me talking at the door for ages. I was young and naive then though  

You could tell a nut job at 50 paces; nowadays everyone walks around talking to themselves and the distinction is less clear!

True 

And another big plus is that without it I would never had met some really fab people  

*Evil aunt gave me a grand when she retired... which bought my first PC xmas '99!

LOL! with bluetooth and the like  

so, she wasn't all bad after all 

I think it was different in that before digital technology you had to 'want' to do something.

Where as now its available on a whim

A bit like having a car as opposed to public transport - you can pop to places in a  car if you want but have to really want to be somewhere if you are using public transport.

If you know what I mean . . .  

Oh how I miss queueing and tutting, and shivering, just to make an important phonecall  to my boyfriend, just to tell him, to meet me at the corner of the street, and hoping his Mum does'nt answer the phone.

I didn't get my first one till about 2002 

Recently I have been searching for Telephone Boxes

never see them these days

 The good old days.

But.................without it all, I would not be talking to you lot......

Mind you. What did we ever do before TV and radio......spoke to each other  

There's one in my village (unless it's gone and I haven't noticed).

and I was much slimmer before the internet  coz I wasn't sat on me butt every night talking to you reprobates  

You would never have had "hope that helps" and "Pumpkins"

 She always phoned our house, we were on the bliddy phone for hours trying to explain why we hadn't visited her 

I can identify with that! 

 Me too.

I didn't get my first mobile until Easter Friday 2002 - Nokia 3310 "orange" - which is still in perfect working order!

Ain't life funny? 

You still have your first one? 

Mine was an Erickson. I bought it without mam knowing and had to hide it and the box for a good while to get her used to the fact that I actually had a mobile  

Exactly..!  I was born with the Nutjob Magnet gene and it makes life extremely difficult  

I'm sure this was the same as mine