What did the bbm user say to the other?

Nothing.

The internet outage for blackberry users this past week has open up a lot conversations about how interconnected people have become to their devices. Everyone who had a blackberry had an opinion on how big of an incontinence it was to them and if you weren't a blackberry user it opened the floor for many jokes like the one above. What I found troubling though was the particular value judgments that were being place on those effected. An example.

Two people in past week mentioned to me CTV's coverage of the blackberry outage, which some teens said that they felt lost without bbm and didn't know what to do with themselves. To some this may seem like a ridicules position to take, there are after all other means of communicating with others. Yet, when we build up these system of constant new smartphones and charge insane amounts for data through cellular companies, I think the position is completely normal. Haraway talks about the idea that humanity and technology has become one, and I agree, to suggest otherwise at this point I think it would be rather maddening.