One Of Them

I remember making fun of people with Blackberry devices. Always checking email from everywhere. Tethered to their mobile device as if life itself depended on it.

I would laugh at them and refer to the device as a "dingleberry".

But my new phone has internet access and the unlimited data plan. When I first got it I was using the data plan a whole lot. It was a new thing. But really the internet browser it has sucks ass. The Iphone browser is much nicer. Opera makes it more usable than the Internet Explorer mobile version the phone came with. What a piece of shit that is.

But still, I have found some uses for data on the phone. Like for example Google Maps. If I am out somewhere and need to find some place, I can open Opera and do a Google search for whatever I am looking for. Then go to Google Maps and punch in the address. Turn on the phone GPS and I am there. Street level mapping.

Also I can use the phone to receive XM Satellite Radio programming, but this would require an extra monthly charge. I used my three day free trial but never subscribed for anything else. But the option is there!

However, I recently did something else. I created an email account for my phone. I own a domain and the hosting company allows me up to 1500 POP3 email accounts. Well I do not need that many, but it does offer the option of multiple accounts. So I created one for the phone. Two actually, but I decided the first one was too long.

And now I find myself to be one of them. Checking the phone for email. Finding reasons to send email from various places. Because I can.

But I am still not a dingleberry person. You do not see me constantly sending and receiving emails on the phone. I am not always typing away, lost in my own little world and not noticing what is going on around me. In fact, I have not even given the new email address out to anyone. I do not really want to get what I call "instant pestering" messages on the phone.

I do not want to be one of them, but the modern world seems to demand that I become one of them. I am resisting as best I can. But one man, alone, can not fight a world war. He needs an army. At least. Actually he needs an army, and air force, and a navy.