Can You Live Without Your Phone?

What can't you live without? Food. Water. Air. Shelter is nice too. But it's been proven that humans can live without it. Could you live without your phone? Even if it were just for a day, could you part with that little device that holds so much of your "at my fingertips now" information? Does the idea of even being without your phone give you a case of the vapors or break you out into a case of the hives? My Blackberry had a little issue with email yesterday (read: it was like, "Ding, ding, ding, bong, bong, bong...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh" You know, dial up circa 1995.) so I took it to the Verizon store for a quick check-up. Turns out I had to leave it at the store for an hour, which was fine except that I would have to come back with two kids versus one. I felt a brief bit of terror as I … [Read more...]