I have become all that I once loathed
Have you ever been out at the bar, or at a friends place, and in lieu of actual conversation you are surrounded by five people silently typing into their cell phones? This usually ends once somebody stumbles upon an amusing video, after which everybody crowds around a single tiny screen to watch something asinine (usually, involving a cat).
Then everyone goes back to updating their Twitter feeds about this hilarious cat video they just saw.
I used to laugh at those people (yes, even you), proudly clinging on to my luddite brick phone that had no web browser, no touch screen and no way to upload my naked photos to Facebook.
Alas, upon renegotiating my plans with Rogers they offered me an IPhone for basically nothing and I agreed, stipulating to myself that I would use it only as a normal phone. Naturally, this is not what has happened. Balls.
As a result, I now find myself trolling the internet reading about new apps I can download, ignoring the other human beings in the coffee shop next to me. On the bright side, never will I have to walk into a fire hydrant while sending a text message again.
[via Boing Boing]
True stories of bad BlackBerry etiquette:
-When I first got my BB, I walked into a pole. Literally, smacked my head against it leaving a bump and almost destroying my phone in the process.
-Never before did I find it necessary to take my cell phone into meetings until I got a BB.
-One time, I was hanging out with someone who was BBMing away on his BlackBerry, ignoring me. And then as soon as I got a BBM and started ignoring him, he got jealous and tried to swat my phone out of my hands.
-I once started a conversation with a girl sitting next to me on the subway because she was playing Sudoku on her BB instead of Brickbreaker. A real maverick, like me.