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BlackBerry?
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Think again...
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Drugs? Alcohol? Childs play.
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•Affects productivity
•Threatens relationships
•Hinders educational enrichment
is an ADDICTION that...
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Affects
Productivity...
Staff have become too reliant on leaders in terms of decision
making...
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Why not, when answers are only a BBM away?
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Threatens
Relationships...
Families are compromised for an addiction fuelled by the desire to be in
control.
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HENCE,
Emotional disconnection...
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Hinders
Educational Enrichment...
Students are more inclined to check Facebook...
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rather than to facetheir text books...
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Did you KNOW?
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35% of BlackBerry users would choose their
BlackBerry over their spouse?
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85% check their BlackBerries before they
sleep, as they wake up AND during the middle of the night.
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Life of the party
now aren’t we??
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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” –Frank Lloyd Wright
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Much like
SEVERELYaddictive substances...
BlackBerries have lead to irrational,
damaging behaviour among owners who can’t
say NO.
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The choice is yours...
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PLAYTIME IS OVER.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
•Ballard, L. (2006). BlackBerry Addiction. Available from: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/55641/blackberry_addiction.html (Accessed on 20 March 2011).
•Melouney, C. (May 2008). BlackBerry Addiction Takes Hold. The Sunday Telegraph. Available from: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/new/sydney-nsw/blackberry-addiction-takes-hold/story-e6freuzi-1111116304455 (Accessed 20 March 2011).
•The Economist. (2008). 35% of BlackBerry Users Would Choose Their PDA Over Their Spouse. Washington DC: The Economist. Available from: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2008/09/35_percent_blackberry_choose_over_spouse (Accessed 22 March 2011).