This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

Satanic Lily: This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

I have more hate for their "parents".

So "NYC Prep," basically a younger version of "Real Housewives"?

/waiting for the college version

Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

dead_dangler: I have more hate for their "parents".

This.

/still young enough to fall in the "teen category
//has a blackberry
///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

These brats need to be locked in a room with pencil and paper and not let out until they have a two-page essay on the fall of Rome (or something) that your average WWII era teacher would accept as reasonable.

The horror?

Hey subby, get off my lawn. I've hated children long before they all had cell phones.

dreadprophet: ///bought it and pay for my service myself, because I have a bloody job

Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Kids like to text.

Newspapers post what kids do to seem hip.

FARKers like to complain about kids.

The cycle is complete.

Meh. I like the iPhone better. And I have a teen that has had a cell phone since he was 9 or 10 - he has NEVER abused the privilege by overdoing it with apps, texts, or talking over the plan minutes. It all depends on whether the kid is a status seeking brat or not.

Spoiled brats, in my day all we had was Pagers and Gameboy...

skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.
I felt old the other day when I realized there's now a whole generation out there who doesn't know what it was like before Blackberrys, cellphones, PCs and the internet. But that doesn't mean they can walk on my lawn either.

this.

In all honesty, I'd rather be on a bus with a bunch of kids texting than on a bus with a middle-aged hambeast screaming into her cell phone about how everyone she works with is an idiot.

TheWizard: The horror?

Hey subby, get off my lawn. I've hated children long before they all had cell phones.

also this.

Approves.

Working at Chuck E Cheese, I have a lot of kids loose their cellphones. I had to help a girl that was maybe 9 or 10 find her phone the other day. She was upset that she might have missed an "important text message"


/wasn't allowed to have a phone until I could pay for it myself.

*I* don't even carry my cheap-ass, $100/year cell phone unless I'm traveling. I don't know what people have to yammer on about all damned day.

Even then, I'd rather use an iPod than a BlackBerry. BlackBerries are for government workers and corporate tools.

/My lawn, get off it.

But this picture is incomplete. For one thing, features like BlackBerry Messenger allow teens to bridge the gap between phone and computer, sending, in effect, real time text messages to fellow BlackBerry customers as well as friends sitting at home computers. That expands the phone's reach beyond the rich kids.


I must be missing something. Some BlackBerry models are $50 or less, with data plans in a similar range per month. I'm not sure only "the rich" can afford such a thing.

skinink: My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees ...

...sat down and immediately set up laptops and started clickety clicking away. I swear there were people on one side of the table IMing people on the other.

This went on non-stop through the presentations, breaks, lunch, you name it.

TheWizard: Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Haha, because I don't think I can manage the "company phone" angle at this point. Maybe eventually.

skinink

My company had a conference awhile ago, and it was unbelievable how many attendees lost their Blackberrys. Hopefully these kids can take better care of theirs.


Lost Blackberry == out of touch while on the road at a conference

"No, I'm sorry I didn't get your voice mail/email/text message [while I was in the bar]..."

Fear the Clam: *I* don't even carry my cheap-ass, $100/year cell phone unless I'm traveling. I don't know what people have to yammer on about all damned day.

Even then, I'd rather use an iPod iPhone than a BlackBerry. BlackBerries are for government workers and corporate tools.

/My lawn, get off it.

FTFM

I went to Waterloo, so I'm getting a kick out of all these rugrats buying RIM devices.

It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

dofus: These brats need to be locked in a room with pencil and paper and not let out until they have a two-page essay on the fall of Rome (or something) that your average WWII era teacher would accept as reasonable.

How about a two page essay on these fancy new electronic thingamajigs to bring the old geezers up to speed?

If and when me and the gf ever have kids (hopefully never) they're not getting a goddamn cell phone/blackberry/iphone, etc.. until they're old enough to have a job and pay for it themselves. Articles like this make me wish I could've shaken the hand of that WW1 vet that recently passed away.

MightyPez: It's an odd dichotomy for me. When I first began my job the company offered to pay for my cell service and data plan. I was very excited and it's a perk I still enjoy. But I have started taking my vacations in areas where I know I will have bad service.

A few months ago I went up to Cornucopia, WI. I checked my coverage map and there was nothing. The only person that could get service was on Verizon, and they struggled with one bar. It was a small slice of heaven.

Yeah... the company cell phone is right up there with "how'd you like to go to Europe for two weeks?". They leave out the "working 16 hours a day" part as well as "the only think you'll see is the airport and your hotel" part.

Impooter: Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

No, no, no. I hate them because they are shallow, spoiled and stupid.

FTA: "Teens beg parents to splurge on both a smartphone for texting and an iPod for listening to music; they are fans of multitasking. Says Camille, "Having a [larger] iPod on your desk, since those are allowed in school, and a separate phone to text with in class makes it much easier to get away with.""

Don't BlackBerry's have multimedia capabilities already? (Along with GPS, WiFi, and all that other crap) Get a damn memory card for it and you can fit an entire Ipods worth of music on it. Why do you need both if you are always carrying a phone?

Satanic Lily: This just makes me hate kids (especially teens) even more.

I'ld just finished a set at Folk Life a couple of years ago, and Randy Sabien, Moe Dixen and I were headed for the first beer of the morning. We passed this cute little kid, I don't know, maybe seven-years-old. She was sawing away on her fiddle, giving it her best. Randy says "Jeez but she is farking awful!" Moe just shook his head, "Come on Randy, you were crappy once." To which Beaner replied, "No. No I wasn't."

/apropos of I don't know
//shameless name dropper
///it was too late in the morning for whiskey

Impooter: Because they have Blackberries? Get over it. There are plenty of better reasons to hate them.

Being a bunch of pussies one of them.

7th Son of a 7th Son: If and when me and the gf ever have kids (hopefully never) they're not getting a goddamn cell phone/blackberry/iphone, etc.. until they're old enough to have a job and pay for it themselves. Articles like this make me wish I could've shaken the hand of that WW1 vet that recently passed away.

And said "You had it good trooper, nothing but shrapnel, shellshock and mustard gas. And at least the Germans were men. Today we're surrounded -- snowflakes to the left, douchebags to the right, morans coming down the middle and wharrgarbl raining from the sky."

I use a BlackBerry for work, so I really am getting a kick out of these replies...


/yada yada yada
//Slashies!!

Debbie Gibson > Madonna > Britney Spears. Also Debbie is talented, she's been in a few Broadway productions and has done theatre over in London. Britney can't do shiat without an Autotune.

skinink: Debbie Gibson > Madonna > Britney Spears. Also Debbie is talented, she's been in a few Broadway productions and has done theatre over in London. Britney can't do shiat without an Autotune.

W.T.F.???????

dreadprophet: TheWizard: Why not make the bloody job pay for it?

Haha, because I don't think I can manage the "company phone" angle at this point. Maybe eventually.

that made me laugh also. Hey, why not have your job pay for your house? Your car? Weed?

We will get our revenge when they all die of brain cancer at 45.

"We all have BlackBerrys, that's so New York"

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

Maybe it is a generational thing but when I first got my blackberry, the "corporate" types had BBs and the "fun, young, creative" types had iphones. I always assumed Iphones would be more appealing to the younger market (I hate them but whatevs).

But I guess I kinda get the NYC Prep kid's comment, "so NY" meaning they are just wannabe yuppies.

pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

This just in: rich people spend more on basic commodities than middle-class people.

Further breaking news: rich kids get cooler toys.

How is this new? Haven't teens had "digital toys" in one way or another since the early 90's? The first Game Boy came out in 1989. It cost $90. Cartridges were $40, and you could expect a whiny kid to get at least one cartridge every other month, if not more frequently. I recall lots of kids (not me) in my middle-class neighborhood had Game Boys, plus some other gaming system like an NES.

So now kids are getting Blackberries or iPhones instead of Game Boys. Necessary? No. Something new or surprising? No.

dead_dangler: W.T.F.???????

Nevermind. Wrong thread, also was posting from my Blackberry...

Lollipop165: pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

Myself and most of my friends (creative types: developers, graphic designers, etc) here in Philly have iPhones. The rest are evenly divided between the G1 and those not-quite-a-smartphone-but-has-a-QWERTY-keyboard phones. Only 1 or 2 BlackBerrys.

skinink: dead_dangler: W.T.F.???????

Nevermind. Wrong thread, also was posting from my Blackberry...

I understand... the rapture that comes from listening to Debbie Gibson tends to put one in such a state of ecstasy that it's impossible to perform simple tasks....

Lollipop165: pxlboy

actually, i thought iPods and iPhones were more NY....

I'd guesstimate fewer than 1/6 of my Manhattan friends have Iphones. But again, I hang out with more corporate/lawyer types.

/yeah I know...

i'd say 8/10 of manhattanites that i've met have iphones. it's become a running gag, lately - especially when you're all at a restaurant and everyone lays their iphone on the table. but gain, i hang out with ad agency/film types.

If you identify yourself by your cell phone, you've just outed yourself as one of society's useless people.

Y know what snowflakes have done to me?

1) sold my country to the chinese
2) wanted to fight me then hit me from behind in the head
3) made a phone that caught on fire when it fell off my desk
4) had a drunk cop in a truck screaming he was going to kill all the homeless and drove on the sidewalk trying to kill me, so I dodged and punched his truck
5) did I mention selling my country to chinese?
6) all had life handed to them
7) never worked a day in their lives when in my day we had paper routes at 8 years old
8) sold my country to the chinese

I am so so so tired.

my cell phone caught on fire when my cat broke my desk, chair, fan lamp and everything else on my desk

dead_dangler: If you identify yourself by your cell phone, you've just outed yourself as one of society's useless people.

Boomer kids:

"Shouldn't we, like, try and do something about all of the hate and war and oppression in the world? OK, I mean, sure, like, I'm not too sure what to do, but, like shouldn't we do SOMETHING?"

GEN Y kids:

"Eau, mah, Gahd, we, like, totally all have such, like cool things and we are, like, eau mah Gahd, seau seau trendy and like, we are like, totally elite or some sh*t and, like eveybody at school totally wants to do me, like, I am seau hawt and eau , mah Gahd, have you seen my kewl sunglasses and my Blackberrry and, like, eau mah Gahd I am such hot sh*t, totally and you are all such, like loosers, totally. Is that how you spell "loosers"? Tsk, whutevver... totally"

40 years of feminism has brought us three fatherless generations of spoiled, self absorbed crap stains whose highest aspirations are pole dancer and bar bouncer or anything where they can buy kewler stuff and whore attention.

Eau, mah Gahd, indeed.