Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Face Time

Facebook use has exploded around here. Everyone is doing it. On Monday, I started in urology in a new hospital, a bit more laid back than Foothills. During one of the cases, I looked over to see what the anaesthesiologist was doing so intently; she was facebooking. Walked past the fluoroscopy control nook; the x-ray tech was facebooking.

The only two hold-outs I know of are Magic Pants and Vibe. How do they resist the peer pressure?

Speaking of Magic Pants, I think I've mentioned that we both owned the same crappy phone, a Motorola V220. The worst phone of my life. His phone was crapping out in the same way as mine, with the phone hanging up when you answer it. That's the opposite of what a phone is supposed to do, Motorola; you may want to look into removing that instant-hang up function. Anyways, things reached the breaking point for me on Saturday, when I had a phone conversation with Rococo consisting of about a dozen ten-second individual calls, with the phone crapping out each time.

So, on Sunday, I picked up a W180i. It's good to have a Sony Ericsson again; I feel alive once more.

5 comments:

Bil The Man said...

Wow, that made me laugh. Stupid Motorola, when will they learn to give us the features that we want. They just released a whole new set of phones too. Well, I'm glad you have it all lined up.

How did you so quickly get more Facebook friends than me. I'm so lonely...TOm@12

Marysienka said...

what is facebook? :-D

Random Curiosity said...

I don't trust Motorola. Nokia is most reliable if you want a phone for making calls.

Anna said...

Facebook is the best and the worst thing of my life. I spend so much time on the bloody thing. Its great for keeping in touch with peeps - on elective, old friends, family - but its terrible for people putting crappy pictures of you on it then tagging you!

Its been crazy on Facebook in England for about a year or so, I only cracked in the Christmas holidays through boredom. Now I can't get free of it...

I love my Sony Ericson too. Especially my amazing Johnny Cash ringtone. Yup, Ring Of Fire...

Tall Medstudent said...

bil: if you go back to school, you can have lots of Facebook friends too! :) I hit 30 today...

marysienka: Heh heh, good one!

random: I have a nokia that I bought in Tanzania, but it's a model from the early nineties, and I don't have a power adapter for it. I was thinking, I know where to unlock a phone in Dar Es Salaam, why can't I do it in Calgary? This city sucks.

anna: crappy photos, the best kind! :)