Mobile phones- more trouble than they're worth?

It seems that now we have mobiles, there's an extra complexity in human interactions that I could happily do without. Before Mobiles (BM), people had to stick to plans. If people took your number, they were probably serious (or more serious, anyway). They couldn't send you a text, copping out of a call.

Now we have mobiles, people make plans and then change them at the last minutes, leaving you standing on the station platform dressed up to the nines with nowhere to go.

Or they don't call.

Or they text you, leaving you in complete disarray trying to decipher whether they have any feeling that can in any way be comparable to what you have for them (ie. a big fat crush).

And then there's this one: it's broken. Not mine (mine is forever threatening that course of action, but hasn't quite followed through), but his. This, of course, can mean only one thing: hours spent pondering "has my number just been blocked?", "will I ever speak to him, let alone SEE him, again?" and the such like. It's not conducive to... well, anything really.

I wish we could go back to the good old days where plans meant something and a call was a call was a call.That said, those days were pretty rubbish. I got very cold waiting around all the time.