Technology: My Life as a Mom with a Blackberry
Both Crystal and I have Facebook and Myspace accounts, so we can use our phones to change our profile status, check either other's mood status, check our friends' status and so on. Technology is wonderful because we can do everything at the touch of a finger. Since she is a "High School Musical" fan, she even downloaded a couple of screensavers for her phone.
With her Samsung Gravity, my daughter is obsessed with text messaging. I don't text message. It takes too much time to text message, when I can simply use the phone to do with it is meant for in the first place and that is for dialing a phone number and actually talking to a live person. Her phone has a camera; mine does not. Both phones have a specially-designed keyboard for typing messages. Like I said before, I don't text message; I send and receive email messages. Most of the time, Crystal will send me an email message rather than pick up the phone to call me. She says, "text messaging is the "in" thing and no body uses the phone to call anymore." Unless I am busy at work or doing some else, I usually respond to her immediately.
So far she is responsible and I don't have to worry about her running up the bill. Plus, I monitor all activity online or via cell phone. Not to mention the fact that I will only pay for a certain amount of usage each month. Since I purchased my phone so I can read most of my emails; I can sit on the bus and send an email to my co-workers, letting them know I'm on my way; I can use the GPS system to find locations, and I send/receive pictures to my daughter of the cutest baby ducks I ever seen! How cool is that?
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29 Comments
Post a CommentYes it is amazing the new technology. It is just common place to see people walking down the street talking on their cell phones.
Great article. It's good that your blackberry has become very useful. Lately, I have also become interested in buying a smart phone. I plan to buy the Palm Centro one day. I also don't like text messaging even though it's very popular.
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You're on top of things, Margaret, there's not a doubt of that. I have to admire your effort to be a good mom. I want to begin doing photos for AC. I need to have a camera to that end. That will be my next effort. Have a great day!
Probably out of all the words in the article, the three that caught my eye the most were:
cute baby ducks.....Thank you!
Happy to hear the glad news of your Blackberry.I wish to express my sincere greetings to your daughter and I strongly hope she would become in the future as a prominent technocrat.
The affectionate bond of relation between the mom and daughter is further strengthened with the assistance of blackberry.Wish you many more happy moments.
I'm not comfortable with text messaging either. If there is someone I don't want to talk to then I really don't want to waste my time trying to type out a text message. It just takes too long. Great article!
You're on the cutting edge--I'm dull as the knife handle. When I reply to a text from our girl child, I find that the calendar date changed.
Blackberries are addictive ... great article!
I'm afriad I'll become one of those Blackberry addicts if I ever got one.