Blackberry and Cell Phones...The destruction of face to face communication!!

When did it become necessary for folks in our society to be tied to their cell phones and other wireless devices? I mean whoever that person was in the cell phone industry that came up with that marketing campaign needs to be given a lifetime golden parachute…lol…

I can recall growing up when your folks told you “Make sure you keep a dime on you so if you need to call you can use the PAY PHONE” Yeah a pay phone, isn’t that a novel thought these days…smile…I would always keep my emergency dime on me whenever I left the house and if I didn’t I knew how to make a collect call, and if the line was busy I would kindly ask the operator if I could make an emergency break into the line…lol…ask someone today what that is and they may look at you like your crazy…smile…

I have always maintained that the onset of cell phones, blackberries and other pda’s have been the death of human interaction. It use to be when you were out on a date that you were forced to talk to one another and your partner sitting across from you was focused on you. Now I can’t tell you how many times I look at people in public places and one person or the other is constantly checking his or her cell phone or texting someone in another place. Now mind you I have been guilty of doing the same, but lately I mean like recently I have been leaving my cell phone at home or in the car when I’m out on a date or something.

I feel a lot more at ease when I’m not worrying about who’s calling me or trying to talk to someone who I’m not with at the present time. I mean if I really need to keep texting that other person then Damn just get up and go to where they are at or have them come where you are at…right…I want to be focused on the person I’m with and want them focused on me…We can learn so much about each other by just talking to each other that it will amaze the common person…I think there is a correlation between the onset of cell phones and the high rate of divorce around the world. Think about it?

I wish each person would just have a cell phone no day…yeah a cell phone no day. That’s when for one day out of each week we just leave our cell phone off. I mean 24 hours is not that much to ask…for some people though you would think that they are having a limb amputated! It took someone to bring it to my attention for me to notice how addicted I once was with my cell phone on one hip and my work Blackberry on the other. Although I thought I was focusing on them I really wasn’t and didn’t even notice that I wasn’t. You will be amazed how over time this thing can start to ruin a relationship. So just think about trying to do it and you may begin to learn more about you and the person your with.