BlackBerry 'Orphans' Fight for Parents' Attention
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Study says BlackBerry users are more likely to become workaholics
ABC News, Dec. 12, 2006 - Siblings have long competed against one another
for their parents' attention. Now, they're competing against something else --
their parents' BlackBerries.
The BlackBerry helps working parents get away from the office more - doing
work from home and from the soccer game - but there is a flip side -- that
BlackBerry is now showing up at the dinner table (and in other places).
"She hides the BlackBerry in the bathroom so
she can sneak away and check her e-mail as
many times as she can make her children
believe she has to use the bathroom..."
...
Full story @
.com
Study says BlackBerry users are more likely to become workaholics
ABC News, Dec. 12, 2006 - Siblings have long competed against one another
for their parents' attention. Now, they're competing against something else --
their parents' BlackBerries.
The BlackBerry helps working parents get away from the office more - doing
work from home and from the soccer game - but there is a flip side -- that
BlackBerry is now showing up at the dinner table (and in other places).
"She hides the BlackBerry in the bathroom so
she can sneak away and check her e-mail as
many times as she can make her children
believe she has to use the bathroom..."
...
Full story @
.com
