“Your BlackBerry can’t love you back.” I’d love to leave one of these cards on my boss’ desk, but he’d know it was me. Everyone knows one of these people (perhaps very, very well – wink, wink). They are attached, always and forever, to their BlackBerries. In meetings, in the bathroom (disgusting) and even in bed. In fact, 60% of people admit to using their BlackBerry in bed. Makes me want to go buy more stock in RIM.
By the way a “digital yawn” is when someone checks their device (BlackBerry, cell phone, whatever) in reaction to someone else checking theirs. This is a contagious reaction; just as when someone else yawns, you yawn. Feel free to put that on Wikipedia – just credit commandocivility.com
December 28, 2007 at 1:46 pm
So true, theses digital devices are running peoples lives, God forbid we step away from a message for 24 hours, we are destroying our own personal freedom.
December 29, 2007 at 11:51 am
Thanks for this comment from krunchyfrog on Digg [http://www.digg.com/gadgets/Your_BlackBerry_can_t_love_you_back] After all of this, though, we find this the most troubling: 37 percent said they responded to e-mails while driving. Come on, people. That is just unfathomably dangerous. Unless you can tap out messages with one hand while not looking, we can’t advocate that. There is a time and place for everything; the BlackBerry has no place when your attention should be on the road. Excuse us for getting preachy, but we’d like to feel safe when driving.
December 31, 2007 at 11:16 am
To further krunchyfrog’s comment, here is an article about how someone’s texting while driving may have caused the death of a teenager. The driver has plead not guilty to the pending charges.
[http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2007/12/man_texting_whi.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed2 ]
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