Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Held Hostage by Technology

I am feeling uneasy and frustrated because I feel like technology has taken over my life.

I vary rarely make New Year's resolutions but for 2010 I was "supposed" to start contacting my friends and family more via telephone. Lets just say at 2 months before the year is out, I have yet to complete this task.

Well, let me back track a little. I am always available to take calls, emails, and text messages. However, when I used to call people all of the time,  they don't answer or they don't return calls. So, I decided to stop making outbound calls.

As funny as it may sound, I am still always available. Constantly replying to email, text, instant messages, and facebook email, sleeping with my phone and waking up in the morning checking missed email and text. I am at the point now, where I will let a call go to vm then reply via text or shoot them an email.

I am finding that I am starting to misread text and email because I am not sure of the tone. At some points during the day, I can't stand the sound of my Blackberry vibrating. I try to turn my phone off to chill, but habit makes me turn it back on. UGH!!!

As I type this message I realize some of my friends and family are just like me. I get tons of text, emails and facebook messages from them. I do have others that call me every day at the same time on the on the dot. Sometimes to talk about nothing ... lol

Eventually, I will divorce technology and make some phone calls. Until then email me....lol

Question: Are you held hostage by technology?

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