I've always wondered why they called a Blackberry a "Crackberry..."
Now I know why... After only having mine a few short months, I now have Facebook, Twitter, work e-mail, Gmail, and pretty much the world at my finger tips. I constantly find myself browsing through Twitter, replying to e-mails, writing e-mails, or when I'm bored flipping Facebook open to just read about someone talking about how their cat ate a muffin.
Yup... this is my digital life and now my mobile office.
However, I find that these phones hinder us from actually experiencing the world around us. Instead of carrying on a conversation, we hide behind our phones, staring blankly and diligently tweeting or updating our Facebook statuses. When we want to avoid an awkward situation, we whip out our phones and pretend like we're answering a text. Or when we're bored, we decide to shoot birds violently through the air at green pigs in fortified structures.
Have our phones made us forget what it's like to interact with one another on a personal level?
Why does everything have to be online these days?
Have we forgotten those relationships around us because we're buried in our phones?
I think so... Put down your crackberry and shut off your dumb phone and take a look at the world around you. Talk with somebody, don't text them. And realize, that the world is not going to spontaneously implode if you don't answer that tweet or facebook message right away.
Ahhhhh.... much better, right?
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