Wireless Tech Chat

Stopwatch

Bad habits are harder to break than than a bad habit. Especially when they involve your shiny shiny new electronic toy. I know, I have several myself. SO, without further rambling, here they are:

1. Watching your iPhone (or blackberry or palm pre or…) on your first date. Or while out with your wife or girlfriend/significant other. For some reason, the person we’re with is aggravated we’re paying more attention to the wonderful little device in our hot little hands than hearing them talk. On and on. Well, suck it up, bud and put the toy away and concentrate on the hot body in the chair across from you.

2. Stop taking embarrassing pictures of yourself and your buddies with your wonderful little device thats in your hot little hands. Just because you *have* the ability to take 10 mp pictures 110 frames a second then Eye-Fi them directly to facebook, doesn’t mean you should. Your or his/their jobs could be over.

3. You know not to drink and drive, how about not texting and driving? Texting and driving has been shown to be the same as drinking and driving. Your reflexes and attention are impaired.

4. So, you’re surfing on your killer phone while driving your date to the restaurant. You come across a funny post on youtube and discover no one else has commented. What do you do? Be the first and write “FIRST, DUDE!” No. That just proves you have no life. Say something intelligent like “Your video reminds me of Faust.” Even if it is something embarrassing.

5. Please stop sending and forwarding “New virus will wipe out your memory….and cause your computer to go blank”. If you question the truth about a warning, head on over to Snopes.

6. Also, if you’re chatting and you come across something you dont’ understand, Google it yourself. You’re not so helpless and lazy that you have to ask the other person ten times in a row to look something up for you. Not that it’s happend to me. Ten times in a row.

7. If you absolutely cannot put your iPhone (or Blackberry or Palm…) down for one hour while you have dinner with your date, do not answer it. If you do answer it, it isn’t necessary to treat everyone within 200 feet to your conversation. You may not be aware, but you’re yelling. Yes, about that embarrassing picture you took of your buddy and posted on youtube. He’s saying something about Faust. Or at least that’s what your date is hoping.

8. Apparantly there was somthing called Rickroll that was funny to pull on your friends. I just watched it. Please stop.