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You take it with you to the bathroom.
You drive and look at your blackberry at the same time.
You leave it out on top of your desk in class to show off your classmates.
You wake up in the middle of the night to check if you have any new e-mails.
You take it out at least once every hour without it being able to sleep mode.
Your girl gives you dirty looks every time you take it out.
You walk around the house with it, even if you're in your boxers.
These are all the problems that I have, and I'm a genuine crackberry addict.
TOTALLY. I usually put it in the waistband of my boxers, dammit!
I also get mail on it faster than the computer (BES) and i prefer checking mail on it!
What you're both experiencing is a phenomenon known as Phantom Vibration Syndrome, a condition that is related to the remarkably similar Phantom Ringing Syndrome. There are various theories as to why this happens, but most of them amount to "it's all in your head".
And yes, I've definitely experienced Phantom Vibration Syndrome myself, along with its opposite number... failing to notice the vibration when I actually DO get a call or a message!
As for the rest of the things on this thread... I'm guilty of many of them, and just haven't had time to reply to them. But I'll go through the thread and make my other replies... soonish.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one that gets this. I thought I was crazy!
What you're both experiencing is a phenomenon known as Phantom Vibration Syndrome, a condition that is related to the remarkably similar Phantom Ringing Syndrome. There are various theories as to why this happens, but most of them amount to "it's all in your head".
That's absolutely hilarious. A bit sad... but hilarious.
I am hopelessly addicted as I too check my mail fist thing upon waking. And it get's worse....I bought 6 new BlackBerrys in the last 5 months and kept all but one!
1) 7130c My favorite
2) 8700c
3) 8100
4) 8800
5) 7130c Backup in case something happens to my original 7130c. As soon as I heard these were about to be discontinued, I bought this additional one.
I wonder... Does web surfing and PIN messaging from a deer stand count? I had full data service 16 feet above a soybean field. Only saw a couple of deer, but I was fully equipped to fight the boredom.
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Originally Posted by PhonePimpBill
--When you don't remember the last time where you didn't take it to the bathroom with you.
Guilty as charged!
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--You see a hot chick with a Treo and think "Nuts! If only she could have had a Berry. Such a great body, but just not my type."
I did that just this past Wednesday, when I was walking around a mall with friend! This smoking hot chick in a Bebe jogging suit went by us once while we were standing in front of the entrance to the mall (my friend was smoking... Maryland's a "no smoking in any workplace" state, which of course includes shopping malls), then again a little while later inside the mall. The second time she went by, she had her phone out... a Sidekick 3!
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--You open your cell bill and actually think it's reasonable.
--You have chargers strategically positioned at work, by your bed, by your TV, and one backup in your pocket or backpack and one in your car.
Guilty of both, although I'm not QUITE that bad on the second one. I have one charger in my room, USB syncing/charging cable plugged into my PC all the time, car charger in my car, and a folding prong travel charger in my bag that I take to work.
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Originally Posted by jboston511
One way to know you're addicted to a crackberry is when you are sitting watching tv, you're not watching the tv, it's on but you have no idea what's going on because you are sucked into the crackberry.
Been there, done that!
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Originally Posted by osa500
Lol i am guilty of this.
Gotta add holding down a key on the computer thinking it will capitilize it...
I've done that a couple times recently myself.
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Originally Posted by aalqadaffi
You know you're addicted when you have to urinate but you sit down just so you can spend more time on your blackberry. This is for guys only clearly.
Pfff... that's not the way a REAL man does it! You have 2 hands for a reason... one to work the zipper and control your "equipment", and the other to use the BlackBerry!
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Originally Posted by mas90guru
-second thing you whip out at the urinal is a blackberry.
Exactly my point, per the above statement!
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-use suretype and drive 85
To you and all the rest that use their BlackBerry while driving, I can only say WHAT THE FRAK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL SOMEONE?!?!?!
This is the one place I draw a line in regards to my CrackBerry addiction. The ONLY time I'll pull out my BlackBerry in the car is if I'm STOPPED at a red light that's JUST turned red, giving me a few seconds to look at whatever new email came in. Otherwise, I don't touch it. Texting/emailing while driving causes just as many accidents as drunk driving! JUST DON'T DO IT!
If you're ever in MD doing that crap, and happen to be on the road in the same vicinity as me, you better hope you don't hit me! 'Cause if you do, you're in for a WORLD of hurt once I get my hands on you!
Again, I draw the line at any use of the BB that might threaten my life or the lives of others. There's CrackBerry addiction, and then there's just plain STUPIDITY! Texting/emailing while driving falls into the LATTER category!
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Originally Posted by KoVeRt
When you're on hold with Customer care, wishing you could be using the web or IM while you wait!
Too true, too true! This is why I'm looking forward to T-Mobile's introduction of HSDPA/UMTS later this year! The ability to use the phone AND data AT THE SAME TIME will ROCK!!!
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Another one...
Hey everyone, I just realized yet another sign that you're a CrackBerry addict!
Some of us have admitted to suffering from Phantom Ring Syndrome and/or Phantom Vibration Syndrome. Well, I've just identified a 3rd malady along the same lines, and I'm going to coin the term now: Phantom Status Light Syndrome!
Imagine, for a moment, that you're sitting somewhere... home, work, car... and you're not looking directly at your BlackBerry. Then, out of the corner of your eye, in your peripheral vision, you see the status light on your 8700 (or your 8100 or 8800, for that matter) blink. And you just KNOW it was RED! There's no doubt in your mind! You've got a new message!
Excited at the prospect of your new message, you reach for your phone. But when you pick up your beloved CrackBerry, there are no new message alerts showing on the screen. Looking directly at the culprit (i.e. the status light) now, you see that it is blinking away in the usual GREEN (or BLUE if you have your Bluetooth accessory connected to your BB), rather than the red you were expecting.
This, folks, is Phantom Status Light Syndrome... another cruel hoax played on you by the same region of your brain that tells you your BlackBerry is vibrating when it's not. And I'm sad to say that I've been suffering from this condition more and more lately.
Last edited by Jack T. Chance : 02-28-2007 at 01:16.
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Originally Posted by Jack T. Chance
This, folks, is Phantom Status Light Syndrome... another cruel hoax played on you by the same region of your brain that tells you your BlackBerry is vibrating when it's not. And I'm sad to say that I've been suffering from this condition more and more lately.
I don't this one is a hoax. I think there is something to this.
This happens to me all the time. is it a color shift thing?
02-12-2007, 00:51
Another one...
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