05-14-2008, 01:31 PM
.RJ Wrote:I wish I knew why people felt like they have to have their blackberry glued to them 24/7. I'll lose track of my phone for days.
It's an obsession/addiction like any other. People get used to that connected feeling and eventually become accustomed to the hyper-stimulation it provides. I have a Pearl and noticed after about 3 weeks how quickly I was becoming obsessed with it. I decided to turn off all email notifications and refuse to wear a clip so I've avoided the pitfall.
Regarding you losing your cell... are you talking about when you moved?
You're admittedly not your average corporate drone. You talk to friends on the internet, don't have any business calls, don't care about work emails and don't have a family to keep up with. None of those are reasons to be so obsessive but there are at least some reasons to be a little bit more connected than you are.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth