Picking out your ring tone is kind of like picking out your car or your phone. While spending a few bucks for a tone (or maybe even picking up some Free ringtones) is nowhere near as big a decision to make as paying for a major purchase like your phone or car, it does say just as much about you. After all, one of the best subtle little indicators of your personality is the tone that comes on every time someone texts or calls you up. Haven’t you ever noticed that your opinion of someone can shift in a hurry if their tone is something really strange?
How do you pick your tone, when the time comes to make up your mind on it? Do you go with a song that you’ve known for awhile, that really speaks to you in a way that will still be the same years from now? Do you pick one that sounds really good, and gets you to want to move right now? Do you go with a ring tone that doesn’t have a beat at all, and just sounds like something interesting, like that one where the really high voiced guy sounds like he’s an engine that’s idling?
There are only about a million different ring tones to choose from — and that probably doesn’t count a lot of different kinds that most people have never heard of. While the ring tone you choose is a deeply personal decision, it is the kind of thing that everybody who hangs around you for any length of time is going to be exposed to at least every once in awhile. And the impression your ring tone makes on people can be subtle and powerful at the same time. So what kind of tone were you thinking about getting on your phone?