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I just got an I phone. I know I'm probably way behind the times especially because the i phone I got was a hand me down from my big sister. But I love it., I still haven't really figured out the phone part of the phone but to tell you the truth that doesn't seem to matter very much!

I find myself facebooking all the time and checking my emails so I guess I'm a little troubled about how "connected" I am all the time now. I remember when mobiles first came out and I used to hide in the bathroom because people who I was doing a "group assignment" with at uni were just contacting me all the time. I rationalised that you couldn't take a phone into the shower (despite all those dodgy 80s movies with the built in shower phone). How did I get to this place that I'm getting up at 6:30 in the morning excitedly checking the weather and my email from bed? Do we need to be this connected and is there any turning back?

Barbara brought an article into work this week from the weekend Australian about facebook and how  we all need to log off in order to find out who our real friends are. Did anyone else read that aricle? My first reaction was that it was reactionary and displayed a fear of new technology but it did have some points about how we know how everyone turned out, you know those ex boyfriends you never wanted to see again but kind of wondered about in an i'm so better off without them way and those girls you thought you would be best friends forever with?

Anyway, now I have a new way of connecting to the internet and to people I'm finding I can't get enough of it and I will conquor that tiny keyboard soon to post a status update that makes sense.