Technology Is The New Smoking
26th July 2011
We’ve all been there; You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or Yammer or what ever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever “gone to the bathroom” in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?
Remember when the critical mass of smokers used to leave the table or meeting in groups to go indulge their habit? I straight up open my laptop at bars and parties, and then feel more guilty about that than drinking.
Soon we will have implants — call them the ‘electronic cigarettes’ of the tech world.
July 26th, 2011 at 11:06
I was thinking about buying a pack of cigarettes so I could qualify for 4 smoke breaks a day. Maybe I should just upgrade the phone and do Twitter breaks.
Or not.