How old were you

I'm 42.....

Does getting your first corded telephone in your bedroom count? If so, I was 14 when I got a phone in my bedroom. Rotary dial.

First phone without a cord....I was 16....and WOW pushbuttons!!!!

Pager at 21. First cell phone at 28. Now I feel old.

I'm embarrassed to say I was 14....I'm 23 now.

BUT! It wasn't my idea, my parents insisted I have one, as we lived out in the country, and I'd often go into town and need to let them know when to pick me up or if I was being harassed by the jerks at the movie theater (and there weren't a whole lot of payphones around, either).

I was 45. I'm now 57. I grew up with no home phone either. Yeah, back in the day........

Oh good. Now I'm not the only one on here that knows how to use a rotary dial phone. Kids see them now and say, "How do I dial?"

My parents STILL have a rotary dial phone in their basement. And they also have a TV with no remote that you turn on by pulling a knob outward, and it has the little UHF dial on it. They're big believers in not replacing something until it's actually broken.

Lol...um....38 or 40 I think....I'll be 50 this month. I never had a home phone in my room in my parents house. They were all corded and had to sit in the living room next to my parents in order to talk to my friends.

And well....my kids were in high school when then got cell phones...my youngest stepdaughter I think was 5 or 6 when she got hers.

I got my first cell phone right after 9/11 because i realized I needed to be able to have my mother get in touch with me in an emergency. I don't remember how old I was then, I'm 65 now and I have an iPhone with all the bells and whistles.

I was 11, because my mom was a single parent and I'd go home alone and we had no home phone.

Now I'm 18 and still have a cell phone, but I pay for it ha

I got one when I was 15, only because I had a job and paid for it on mine own. I'm 22 now.

18 when I got my first one I didn't even really need it because most of my buddies had phones.

I'm 21 now.

I was in 7th grade when I got my first cell phone. I'm 27 now.

I had just joined the the girls soccer team (the only sport I ever played) and it was handy to help coordinate my ride home each day after practice. My parents got their first cell phone at that time as well.

At the time my mom swore it was a waste of money for them to have the shared one, but then she insisted on always being the one to carry it. When I started to drive, she would fuss at me if I didn't answer my cell phone. I constantly pointed out that I drove a stick shift and thus needed both hands to drive, and that it's bad to talk on the phone while driving anyway.

The other funny thing was that she would occasionally call me, leave a message, and then instead of pressing "end call" or just flipping it shut, would instead power down the phone, then worry when I "didn't call back." Sort of hard to call someone back when their phone is off. Haha.

During school hours, I kept it in my locker on silent. Nowdays, parents call/text their kids during class, kids answer because they keep phone on them 24/7, and society wonders why teachers complain and take the phones away and why kids don't learn. If a parent needs to talk to a kid during school hours, they ought to call the school's office not a kid's cell phone.

My folks didn't get separate cell phones until I went to college and by then they got quite adept at using them. Both are now addicted to their "crackberries" for texting at all hours of the day. As for me, I still use an old fashioned "dumb" clam-shell style phone and I'm perfectly happy with it. I hate texting--drives me nuts.

Having said all that, I only have a cell phone. Haven't had a land line since the one that came with my dorm room.

17, when I could afford to by myself one. No way would my parents have gotten me one. I'm 26 now.