Were people like this about other technological advances?

When outhouses started to fade, did people complain:

A bathroom inside the house?! What, are you nuts? Do you know what I do in there? I don’t want that!

Regarding electricity:

Ugh, enough with the lights all the time already. What was wrong with candles?

Cars:

What, I’m supposed to give up the reliability of a horse for some mechanical thing? Who needs to go that fast anyway?

Planes:

Oh, you with your zooming all over world, I just like to stay home.

Refrigerators:

Does the milk always have to be so cold?

Eyeglasses:

I have to clean the lens myself too? And for this I had to pay good money? Why can’t I just hold the newspaper out at the end of my arm like I used to?

In the same way, I don’t understand people who complain about “having to” carry cell phones, or brag about not having one.

Ugh, what is it with the having to talk to people, and people being able to reach me when they need me, or being able to call people when I think of it?

Unless you’re a housebound hermit or have no friends/family, a cell phone is a useful tool. They come with handy features such as caller ID. If you don’t want to be bothered, don’t answer the call, or even turn it off! But enough of this idea that cell phones are somehow inherently evil or that we’d be better off without them.

(Note to the Blackberry users who can’t cut the cord to the office: your phone is not the problem, it’s the culture of expectation that you are never off-duty. If that’s the expectation, the phone is a symptom. If that’s not the expectation, just ignore it. I’ve seen it done, so I know it is possible)