Are you a Techno Addict?

[MacUser]

Warning given over techno addicts
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/educ ... 253493.stm

A growing number of people are becoming addicted to their mobile phones, Blackberries and other digital devices, researchers are warning. Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages.

It can even interfere with an addict's job as he feels he has to be linked up all the time, says Professor Nada Kakabadse of Northampton University.

She is conducting research into how widespread the addiction may be. (see more above)

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Are you a Techno Nut? What's next to your bed? Take the poll and let us know why you keep it on ALL night long?

[crispfin]

I had to vote Bible, it's the only one of the above I own. Although it really is beside my bed.

[TW]

None of the choices apply. I guess my bedroom is boring. On one nightstand I have a small lamp and my alarm clock, on the other I have a hard wired phone and a picture of my parents. Boring, boring, boring!


TW

[Paully_44]

None of the choices apply. I guess my bedroom is boring. On one nightstand I have a small lamp and my alarm clock, on the other I have a hard wired phone and a picture of my parents. Boring, boring, boring!TW

I had to choose Blackberry, but only because of work. That and I no longer have an alarm clock and use my BB for that as well.

[teach]

I could have picked 4 of them, but I could only pick one!!! so, not only do I have my laptop by my bed, but also my Bible in two different versions and my cell phone that is used for both texting and calls!

wendy k

[RamboPreacher]

I could have picked 4 of them, but I could only pick one!!! so, not only do I have my laptop by my bed, but also my Bible in two different versions and my cell phone that is used for both texting and calls!

wendy k

me three.
(had to move a desktop out of the bedroom, so I would actually get some sleep)
Tablet computer sometimes (read, library access)
Laptop sometimes (Internet)
landline (telephone)
TV
DVD/DVR
CD player (sermons, classes, lectures, Bible-Koine)
MP3 player - Bible (NASB)
PSP - (media) videos
PSP - games
PSP - (media) mp3 (sermons, classes, lectures, Bible-NIV/AMP/Msg/others...)
PSP - Bible (read) (KJV)
TaNaKh ("Bible" paper with covers) (JPS)
my blackberry is plugged in for recharging each night in another room so it is ALWAYS fully charged and ready for the next day (but has 7 Bible versions loaded, and I sometimes read it in bed on the weekends). My MP3 player get's used most.

However, I do not get up in the night to use these devices. Only used for "just before going to sleep".

[Sherry]

We've banned Blackberry's and cell phones, etc...from our nightstands. Do not want them interrupting when you are in the middle of dreaming (hey, that too! ) Hubby's Blackberry would go off all night long, so now it goes on his vanity on silent.

The only techno stuff we have on the nightstands, alarm clocks, one on each and I have my IPod for nights I can't sleep and need to read.

[Tracy]

I have my IPod for nights I can't sleep and need to read.

I usually keep my MP3 player on my nightstand for those sleepless nights too! I enjoy listening to sermons, lectures, interviews, etc.

By nature I am an insomniac

Tracy

[Susie Hamilton]

On my night stand is an alarm clock, lamp and bottle of water.

[MacUser]

I have my trusty macbookpro typically with me on my nightstand. I also use it during the day so I can multi-task projects so it sometimes gets left in my studio.

I WOULD have an iphone.. but I live in a cellular deadzone. *insert crickets chirping here*