My addiction-enabling technologies
Hi, my name is Amir Shevat and I am a communication addict (…we love you Amir…). I love [hate] computers, cellular phones and PDAs. Getting a new email is a rush for me every time, and I get 80-120 emails a day not including junk mail and distribution lists. Phone calls are always answered (I get 20-30 of those every day), especially from numbers I do not recognize, no matter what the time is. My phone always complains about the fact that I am getting too much SMS and he is running out of memory. And frankly, I had it.
The real hard-to-admit truth is that it is very hard for me to kick this habit, especially with all the enabling technologies out there.
Here is an example:
To access my mail I have these methods:
1) 2 laptops with office 2007 outlook (great tool, by the way)
2) 1 home computer with web access (great tool, by the way, that works on Firefox and IE)
3) One PDA (still waiting to become a great tool when i'll upgrade the OS and get a GPS)
4) Telephone-voice access (haven’t tried that, this is too low, even for me…)
So my question is this: if a junky had so much accessibility to his habit, does he have a chance to kick it?