Too connected! The Crackberry reality....

I remember when I got my first pager - anyone who had one walked with one hip down or a large crease in their jacket, as the battery pack was that big/weighty. I also remember my first mobile - not the first model available with a car battery, but a Motorola brick that would have needed a semi-pillow sized pocket in your trousers to house it.

At the time, I embraced these pieces of technology - great fun and good business being more connected. So why is it that I just hate the day I have to embrace the phenomenon that is now termed the Crackberry? Is it because....

If you have a Crackberry, there is no message management: you are just available, 24/7. I quite like my sleep...

I don't want to spend an entire train journey looking like a less grown up version of a PSP addicted teenager - at least PSP's have a bigger screen...

Because if it was that important, then they'd call me! Perhaps people who have Crackberries just can't be trusted by those who give them to them, and resultantly everything needs to go down in writing?

If you think you can get away using your Crackberry in a meeting, then please - get a bit of respect for those who also gave up their time to be with you. You are also probably the discourteous person who has never explained why you left your mobile phone on in the same monthly meeting over the past few years, just so you could "reveal" your latest teenage fantasy mobile.....or worse, its latest ring tone.

This report by scientists on the health deficits, and this comedic News Report by a Canadian TV satirist just make me dread the day

Lesson in Life: you only need a Crackberry because - you know you just can't manage your life now! But don't think it will get any easier with one. Learn to manage your life, and those around you in business

Why do people embrace this technology - or why would you not?