The Crackberry

“ If your hipbone is connected to your BlackBerry or your thighbone is connected to your mobile phone, those vibrations you're feeling in the car, in your pyjamas, in the shower, may be coming from your head bone”.

Some mobile phone addicts and BlackBerry junkies have reported feeling ‘vibrations’ when there are none, or feeling as if they're wearing a mobile phone when they're not.

The mobile phone is now a widely used medium for communication. Its additional features – internet compatibility, SMS, MMS, personalised ringtones, screensavers, message tones and phone covers – and the super-cheap phone plans have increasingly replaced the landline phone. Your mobile phone is now considered part of your identity, a form of self-expression and social class. But when does your blackberry turn into a crackberry? At what point do you come addicted to your mobile? Are you constantly checking for instant messages, emails, taking your phone to bed, and finding you are spending more time twinkling your fingers on the keypad then talking to the person next to you?

Maybe instead of Alcohols Anonymous, people soon will be admitting themselves into rehab to escape the ever increasing crackberry addiction.