A Tribute to The Snake

…not the slithering snake and not the trousersnake either(for those of you with dirty minds).

No, this is  tribute to the snake we found on our Nokias:

Ring any bells?

For me the snake represents an era gone by, back in the day when cellphones were black and white and we had only just heard of polyphonic ringtones – Yes Schalk, I am repeating our conversaion via Blackberry Messenger verbatim, what you going to do about it?

All of this nostalgia has obviously been brought in by the “Three Day Dark Age” we BB users had to endure and on that note:

Most of us profess to say that the peace and quiet did us good. I only have one thing to say:

Bullshit.

If you wanted to enjoy the peace and quiet you would have gone on a trip to a remote desert island where no technology existed and if you wantedpeace and quiet to the extreme, you would have bought an iPhone.

I did not enjoy the peace and quiet. I had to use airtime(remember that anyone?) to sms(God forbid) a friend! When last did you have to use the “short message service”? Even my mother as a BB.

Back to it.

Remember when e had to load airtime onto our phones the sms friends/boyfriends/family/etc to alk and make plans? If you really treth your mind a little further there was a time when you had to CALL PEOPLE FROM A LANDLINE!

Seriously, now I know what our parents felt like when colour television was introduced, hell, even when computers were brought onto the market(anyone remember tetris?)

So I have succeeded in making myself feel very old and probably you too.

Point being we wouldnt be where we are now if it werent for snake and all the other now obselete quirks of technology.

Life Without BBM is like, totally messed up, yeah?

Seriously!

Since my introduction to BB in early April this year, I have fallen in love, as my ex husband would say. So to prove a point:

Oh BB, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways…..

1. Free mobile instant messageing. What used to take money(sms) or email(when we were at our computers) we can do anywhere, make plans, talk crap, share photos and have group chats.

2. Access to your email, twitter, wordpress and obviously internet. Connected anywhere anytime!

3. Looks. BB you are stylish, okay maybe not so stylish, but you are cool. Where iphone is the geek that gets full marks and never goes out, BB is the awesome person that everyone wants to be friends with and is always seen having an awesome time.

4.Availability. To my knowledge in South Africa BB is more widely available to the consumer on “contract” or “pay as you go” than the iphone. As far as Im concerned you are a snooty ass yuppie for owning an iphone(and probably up to your eyeballs in debt), and us BB users hateyou becuase you condescend at very opportunity you have. We BBMer’s are constantly defending our bbs while you trash us with your ”mine is better than yours” attitude. Becuase yes maybe it is “better” tecnically, but as a social tool it sucks.

5. Social Butterfly. Again BB is the popular kid, more people own a BB therefore more people can connect and socialise with each other with it.

I dont really need to go on do I?

So it is totally messed up that perhaps one of the most important most loved and hated pieces of technology is now Fucked(temporarily).

RIM…YOU SUCK!

But on the bright side people, doesnt this at least make you realize how much a part of your life your friends REALLY are? So when BBM is back on, let them know you care(PLEASE NO BROADCASTS ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD OR SIMILAR BULLTWANG)

Oh yeah…for those of you with phones other than the phone or blackberry….Get with it.

Wait….no… iphone users still irritate the living shit out of me.

I MISS YOU MY BBM FRIENDS, MAY WE BE REUNITED SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE!