So, I hate technology. I hate the idea of BlackBerry and iPads and I hate over communication. I just think it gets people further apart instead of closer to each other. And I believe over communication leads to mis-communication. The site of some friends sitting together each with his nose stuck to his BB or iPad just depresses me. Technology is supposed to make our work better, our lives easier, not our human contact less and less…
However, here are the times when I really thank God for these devices;
1- When I’m in an outing in which I know only one or two person and the rest of the people are almost total strangers. I like to mingle yes, but at some point I find myself sitting alone silent and to save myself the lonely awkward feeling “mambooza”, e7em, I pretend to be busy with my mobile.
2- When I arrive earlier than everybody else in an outing and I’m sitting all alone in a restaurant of coffee house. Usually a book would, but sometimes it’s just weird to be reading at a “restaurant”, and sometimes I don’t have a book – hence, BB.
3- When I’m in a waiting area of some sort and there are no magazines, no music, the people are creepy and I don’t have something to write in.
I guess those are the only three situations in which it’s OK for me – and I believe for others as well - to use chatting or “entertainment” devices. (I don’t really see tablets as work devices, if you have work stay at home or go to your office).
In all other cases; if you do it, it’s simply detachment from the real world, you don’t like the people you’re sitting with, or plain rude.
Btw, I do that all the time! :D
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