We've already discussed (here and here) the disgusting habit you overfed, undersexed office-dwellers have of bringing your device into the bedroom and the deleterious consequences that has on your love life. Now comes news that thirty-five percent of you simpering texters would even choose your "device" over your spouse:
The study of 6,500 traveling executives says 35 percent of them would choose their PDA over their spouse.Spend time with a living human being? How novel!
"That's a tough call," one said.
"Oh you don't want to go there," another added.
And apparently that attitude is being seen in the sack. Of those polled, 87 percent said they bring their devices into the bedroom.
Another 84 percent check their e-mails just before they go to sleep. Another 80 percent check them in the morning as soon as they get up.
"It can actually ruin relationships," said Dr. Susan Bartell, a psychologist and relationship expert. Bartell said couples should be interfacing more, but with each other.
"People are so focused on their PDAs, they're not focusing on what might be going wrong in their relationships," Bartell said.
Of those polled, 62 percent said they love their blackberry or PDA, and most of them said it makes their life more productive. However, experts suggest, for the sake of your relationship, you might occasionally …
"Turn it off, spend some time with your partner. Have a real relationship with a living human being," Bartell said.
Please email that concept around with your spouse later tonight.
19 comments:
What's on your crackberry SFL?
Think it's a coincidence that they were dubbed "PDAs" given the role they have played vis-a-vis PDAs?
Think again.
'trane
SFL, is your crackberry waterproof?
2:41, who not what
6:05, good one!
I'm addicted to my crackberry more than I am to my cigarettes. My entire life is stored inside.
Just when think you heard it all:
MIAMI - Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry.
At least that's the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin.
Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain's work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday: "You're looking at the miracle that John McCain helped create."
A McCain aide later dismissed the remark as "a boneheaded joke by a staffer."
McCain has acknowledged that he doesn't know how to use a computer and can't send e-mail, one of the BlackBerry's prime functions.
Holtz-Eakin's argument is similar to one advanced by Gore, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000.
Gore once boasted about "taking the initiative to create the Internet" through technological and educational policies. He later was mocked for claiming to have invented the Internet, although he never made such a claim.
Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, said McCain's service on and leadership of the Senate commerce committee put him at the intersection of a number of economic interests, including the telecommunications industry.
The Arizona senator's handling of regulation and deregulation of that industry in particular left him with the skills to help revive the economy amid a mortgage crisis, an energy crisis and a Wall Street meltdown, the adviser said.
"He can and has the judgment to put people in place with technical expertise, with the history of experience in the areas necessary, that we're going to get reforms," Holtz-Eakin said.
Senior McCain aide Matt McDonald said the senator "laughed" when he heard the comment about the BlackBerry.
"He would not claim to be the inventor of anything, much less the BlackBerry. This was obviously a boneheaded joke by a staffer," McDonald said.
Democratic candidate Barack Obama's campaign spokesman Bill Burton ridiculed the BlackBerry claim in another way.
"If John McCain hadn't said that the fundamentals of our economy are strong on the day of one of our nation's worst financial crises, the claim that he invented the BlackBerry would have been the most preposterous thing said all week," Burton said in a statement.
For me it's like a disease, I'm constantly checking it even when I don't need to which doesn't make my girlfriend happy.
SFL how's your chickie? Envious minds want to know.
Those thirty-five percent must have a dry sex life otherwise who the hell would chose their crackberry over their significant other?
SFL have you taken a vow of silence?
6:55, Does McCain even know how to use a computer?
I turn my blackberry off when I get home and turn on my Xbox.
Keep it up tech junkies. Just don't complain when mama decides to get a squeeze box.
'trane
Salt Time for lovesick SFL:
Mama's got a squeeze box
She wears on her chest
And when Daddy comes home
He never gets no rest
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
Well the kids don't eat
And the dog can't sleep
There's no escape from the music
In the whole damn street
'Cause she's playing all night
And the music's all right
Mama's got a squeeze box
Daddy never sleeps at night
She goes in and out and in and out and in and out and in and out
I have to be the one to provide the Steely Dan reference too?! C'mon folks.
'trane
9:24, huh?
7:29, studying for the priesthood SFL?
9:24, I don't even get that one. 'Though Squeezebox was covered by Poison.
10:11 and 10:23 -
Go on one of the InterTubes, fire up "the Google," and research the etiology of that band's name.
Then go wash your hands.
'trane
10:35, if you're referring to the song it's pretty obvious what it means. And no it ain't about an accordion.
Sheesh, you guys have been busy.
6:05, the answer is most definitely a yes.
11:21 -
Do try to keep up. Oh, and bring Newbie his coffee, as he is obviously not the lowest rung on this "ladder" anymore.
'trane
12:09, I'm sure the princess is pleased.
12:30, a compliment from 'trane. I'm tongue tied.
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