So I bought a Blackberry on Ebay. Waited for a week, was very excited for what it would be like… It came in the mail yesterday, and I called to activate it. I must be so far behind the world. Evidentally, you have to add a “Data” plan to be able to use Blackberrys.
After making the call to resell the phone, I posted on Facebook about the deal, and said it’s going to Craigslist. Now I am hearing pursuasive talk from friends about keeping it. “I don’t even touch my personal computer anymore”, “you’ll love it”. So obviously that sounds great, right.
Flash back to the 90′s… I know was in High School then, but go with me. I remember getting my first Email account. After picking the name, checking it daily- only to receive 1 or 2 emails a MONTH… I lost interest. My “hotmail” account got shut down because it went too long without activity. Look how far we’ve come in 15 years.
There’s tons of benefit in staying so connected, but I have to ask- is there harm in it as well? Not in being “connected”, but relationally. If we read “status updates”, gets Twitter posts, email, text… on and on- are we really building relationships that matter, or are we just filling our head with surface information about everyone we’ve ever known.
I love hearing about my friends from High School’s children, I also love to see what’s on my husband’s cousin’s mind- since they live so far away. But if my time gets any more consumed with checking status’s, replying to email, reading blogs…. I will probably burst.
My kids are entertaining themselves with a squirt bottle in the kitchen, and I’m “blogging”. My kids come and ask for me to read a book, and I say “just a minute”. My friends husband is in the hospital, and I check Facebook to see how he’s doing, instead of picking up the phone.
I just have to wonder…. are we getting closer to computers….. or people?
