Crackberry the gift from hell..

Crackberry the gift from Hell

So my sister is not at all tech savvy. In fact only two days before she received an expected package from hell, this is what her friend had to say:

Nelly (her best friend): its funny how you use the least tech savvy phones and not care about it. I like that about you.

Nelly who happily uses an i-phone which was a hand me down from her brother wished it would remain like that.

Anyway the idea wasn’t very difficult to grasp. My sister only needed a phone for communication; she barely used sms services or any phone applications. Her phone was a simple Nokia model with a clear reception and a good per-paid SIM with a very low maintenance cost.

Then one fine chilly afternoon in Lahore, arrived our very cool cousin from New York. An avid Crackberry user and a sort of unintended pitchman for the product gifted my beloved sister her very own Crackberry. I don’t blame him, it was a good will gesture on his part but if landing in the wrong hands it becomes an accessory even the devil can’t do without. What happened in the following days was a huge World War like scenario.

As it so happened that my whole family was hooked to the Crackberry. Everyone and their dog had one, which was where the trouble started. The most technologically challenged family discovered the Crackberry messenger!

They made a common family group in it and that is when the gossip factory started churning out its finest pieces ever. Enough to do the devil proud. These people attacked people without Crackberrys and didn’t even spare the ones with it. Chats became public talk among the elders who claimed it was a replica of Facebook. Though Facebook is so much better, with more privacy and the ability to put pests in a limited profile. OK so a couple of stuff happened on the Crackberry circuit:

• Status updates were read, dissected and criticized as either too vulgar or inappropriate for public viewing
• Display pictures were seen, made fun of, saved and later critiqued on.
• Calendar entries were requested to be removed due to them brining disgrace to the family name
• People with poor English were called hillbillies and asked to go back to their home towns for the distortion of the word lol to loooool

And this is only half of what this family fought over.

Now I wouldn’t blame the cousin of mine. If you use this phone properly its actually quiet benifitial and thus the poor Crackberry shouldn’t be the one guilty as charged. As they put it simply GIGO, Garbagae In Garbage Out.