Mobile Communications: Isolation and the cellphone

I have recently lost my cellphone (along with my bag, including my notes for this class!), and as anyone would know if this has happened to them, the feeling of isolation is absolutely huge! I guess similar to the loss of an Ipod, except replace music/video with the contacts of all your friends and family. I have since replaced the phone with an older one i had and now all is okay. Although, it got me thinking that between the time (just a couple days) that i didn't have my cellphone and when i got my old one connected, how utterly dependant we are on these things, i missed out on alot of stuff! People don't bother to ring your home phone anymore, they just contact your cell and failing that...well, they give up! No one risks the potentially horrible exposure of calling your home and getting your flatmate. In last weeks lecture we looked at whether we would talk to someone (on the bus or what-not) if we didn't have our new-fangled technology. I think it's definately a similar thing to loosing a cellphone, would our friends talk to us if we didn't have the new technology? (i just realised im refering to cellphones as if they're new, which does'nt make much sense in an age of wireless internet), and does not having a cellphone intensely munt our social lives?