One of the things that I really did not expect to find out there was the astounding penetration of Blackberries. You see, for some reason “texting” is not as widely used as the Blackberry Messenger (through users’ PIN codes) is. In consequence: if you don’t have a Blackberry, you are out of the loop.
My cousins basically sold me on the idea of getting one… literally. If I didn’t know better, I would have thought they were selling the devices themselves! They even let me play with theirs while I was there to get used to the feel for it, and to really experience this PIN phenomenon.
The difference between using PINs and texting is that (1) you pay for texting, while PINing is free, (2) you can have chats with whole groups of people, which you can’t do with texting, and (3) you can PIN to international Blackberry users (text, pictures, movies) for free, while nobody can figure out how to text internationally.
All of these reasons were enough for me. My sister Tina Fey and my father have Blackberries, and they chat with my cousins and aunts and uncles every single day. I want to be in the loop! Now my husband Brian can’t wait for me to get it so I can be in touch with my family. He doesn’t even want to wait for me to get my new-every-two with Verizon (May 2011): he’s trying to come up with the money to get me one right now!
Blackberry, here I come!
ina
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