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HUMN341-E1WW : Popular Culture
Assignment 3-1

The typical working man and women today say they spend too much time in the office or at work. Gone are the 8 hour days, the norm is trying to get in early and stay a little late. Companies are running a bit leaner and now your find yourself doing the work of 2 or more people. What better ways to keep you working after hours than to have the company provide you with a gift? That gift would be the Blackberry!
www.blackberry.com

I choose this current icon because I have a love hate relationship with it. Before my company provided me with one I was always annoyed with the people who had to constantly be checking it and doing thing on it when they should be doing other things. How rude and annoying. Is your company not enough for them? What is so important that cant wait until they get into work the next day? Sure, it was shiny and looked interesting, but I didn’t need one so why did anyone else? Maybe it was just Blackberry envy.

Then work bought me one and I understood everything. It was all so clear. How did I every live without it? Yes, I became one of the annoying people who used it where ever I went. My companies plan had worked. I was doing work at night and on weekends. The worse part was that I didn’t even realize it and I was having fun doing it.
The honeymoon was soon over when I moved on and took a position with another company. I had to give my Blackberry back. It was a sad day. How would I keep connected? How would I keep up with my emails? How will I find my way without the GPS function? Well I am here to tell you I lived. Not only did I not pass out and die from lack of the Blackberry, but my husband finally admitted that it was nice to have my full attention again.
The Blackberry is an icon of how far we have come and a glimpse as to where we might be going. There are those that can’t live without it, and others that find that it was better to have loved and lost, then to never have loved at all. Will I get another one? Yeah, I have been pricing them. If I do get another one, I will remember there is a time and place for everything, I hope.

BlackBerry 2009. Retrieved on September 6th, 2009 from
www.blackberry.com