Muhammad Tauseef A. Bajwa
Senator (1k+ posts)
My Blackberry and me: A love-hate relationship
I was meeting my friend after 18 months. We hadnt seen each other since our college days and athough we had kept in touch, Skype is really not an adequate substitute for a face-to-face conversation.
Needless to say, I was looking forward to meeting and catching up. Conversation started, we laughed, we talked but she devoted an absurdly large amount of attention to her BlackBerry.
Every three minutes there would be a ting after which she would pick up her phone and read something, smile, giggle or frown, and type furiously. The first few times, I waited patiently and listened to her Im so sorry, this is just so important, I promise its the last one, with a smile.
By the seventh time I was staring moodily into space, by the eleventh I was tapping my fingers impatiently on the table and by the sixteenth I was just angry.
I mean, this was downright rude, right? No one should be ignored for a phone thats just simple breach of etiquette.
Since then, the BlackBerry craze has surged. Recently, I had to buy a new phone, so I decided to get a BlackBerry. But I knew there was no way I was going to turn into one of those addicted sorts.
Yesterday, I went out for coffee with a few friends and during our conversation, my phone tinged. Naturally, I picked it up and since BlackBerry Messenger shows when a message has been read, I have to reply and then when a reply comes, I have to read it right?
Ive become one of them!
I knew it the second I saw my friends smiles turning into frowns. The tapping on the table began, but I couldnt stop.
Its really not my fault. Its such a great way of keeping in touch! My sister in America, my cousin in Canada, my mamoo in Dubai, my best friend in Australia they are all a few tings away. I can receive pictures, I can have group chats, and I know the second anything happens, Ill be informed immediately.
Its great, but its awful being dependent on a phone.
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.
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I was meeting my friend after 18 months. We hadnt seen each other since our college days and athough we had kept in touch, Skype is really not an adequate substitute for a face-to-face conversation.
Needless to say, I was looking forward to meeting and catching up. Conversation started, we laughed, we talked but she devoted an absurdly large amount of attention to her BlackBerry.
Every three minutes there would be a ting after which she would pick up her phone and read something, smile, giggle or frown, and type furiously. The first few times, I waited patiently and listened to her Im so sorry, this is just so important, I promise its the last one, with a smile.
By the seventh time I was staring moodily into space, by the eleventh I was tapping my fingers impatiently on the table and by the sixteenth I was just angry.
I mean, this was downright rude, right? No one should be ignored for a phone thats just simple breach of etiquette.
Since then, the BlackBerry craze has surged. Recently, I had to buy a new phone, so I decided to get a BlackBerry. But I knew there was no way I was going to turn into one of those addicted sorts.
Yesterday, I went out for coffee with a few friends and during our conversation, my phone tinged. Naturally, I picked it up and since BlackBerry Messenger shows when a message has been read, I have to reply and then when a reply comes, I have to read it right?
Ive become one of them!
I knew it the second I saw my friends smiles turning into frowns. The tapping on the table began, but I couldnt stop.
Its really not my fault. Its such a great way of keeping in touch! My sister in America, my cousin in Canada, my mamoo in Dubai, my best friend in Australia they are all a few tings away. I can receive pictures, I can have group chats, and I know the second anything happens, Ill be informed immediately.
Its great, but its awful being dependent on a phone.
The views expressed by the writer and the reader comments do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of The Express Tribune.
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