Thursday, August 21, 2008

things that happen when you get a blackberry

1) Because you get notified every time you get a new e-mail, the joy of checking your e-mail after being out for a few hours or after a weekend out of town is a thing of the past. When you get onto your laptop, gmail is an afterthought rather than the first stop. This is totally depressing.

2) You respond to e-mails as if you were writing a text message. Whereas in the past you might have written a few paragraphs in response to a long e-mail -- a short summary of what's going on in your life, a few anecdotes and some mandatory questions -- now, you write "hiy thigns r good. will respond larer when have more time."

3) You can no longer use the "Oh, I didn't see your e-mail yet!" excuse.

4) Fun debates over lunch ("What was the name of that Angelina Jolie-Nicolas Cage car movie?!" "I wonder what Melissa Joan Hart is up to nowadays!") get solved in a matter of seconds, saving everyone from eight minutes of bickering and conjecturing among people who have no idea what they're talking about. This is totally awesome.

5) You forget, almost immediately, what it felt like to have a flip phone, back when you couldn't look up how to get to the nearest Burger King from your car and when you couldn't gchat your friends while you sat by the pool. You're not sure if this is a good thing.

1 comment:

Jane said...

i'm with you on this one- i just got an iphone two days ago and while i was overjoyed at the fact that i could look up where the nearest white castle was or find out what a puggle looked like, i am aware that there's this trade-off for the tiny joys. oh man. well, here we begin our lives as "technologically savvy," or whatever they call it