Curb your crackberry
It can be very useful to bring your Blackberry with you when you travel on business. However, when you’re on a vacation - you know, to get away from it all for awhile - and you find you can’t stop checking your email while waiting for your cocktail to arrive or you’re texting your friends from your chaise lounge on the beach, you may not have a Blackberry for convenience anymore. You may actually have a “Crackberry” addiction.
If you can’t put the crack, I mean the blackberry down, you might find it helpful to check out Crackberry.com. They actually have some tips and pointers on how to avoid getting so sucked into your Blackberry that you can’t stop using it. It sort of tries to wean you off of it so that you can actually enjoy your vacation rather than emailing everyone you know about your vacation.
(On the other hand, the site has a lot of info on sales and extra features so it may just make the addiction worse. Proceed at your own risk!)
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2 opinions for Curb your crackberry
Travel Guy
Nov 24, 2007 at 2:32 pm
My observation is that most folks can’t have a “crackberry” without the addiction. Best way to avoid is not to get one.
A friend who had sworn never to have one, was forced to get one for his new position at work. Now he’s on it nearly 24/7 at several hundred emails a day.
He claims to hate the thing, but can’t seem to get away from it - including when on vacation. Quite sad actually.
I see the kids all texting away these days - the crackberry has become the adult version of texting your friends.
The fact that it’s mostly a waste of time is easy to discern when you ask an addict what all those emails are about. Usually 99.99% of them don’t need sending - just like the kids texting away. It’s simply a way of socializing.
The Toronto Traveler
Nov 24, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Thanks for the site! I don’t actually have one myself, but I’ll be sure to pass it on to friends that are constantly annoying me by endlessly texting on their blackberrys when we’re out watching the game or at dinner.
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