Monday, January 31, 2011

Matchstick Message #25: The Screen Light-Up Tease

fromTara Raffi
toStudent Information Requests
dateMon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:36 AM
subjectMatchstick Message #25: The Screen Light-Up Tease




Dear RIM,


You know when you're trying to go to sleep and in your pre-dream thoughts you're walking along and then you trip, and in real life you jolt awake? It sucks, right?


Well, this happens with thousands of BlackBerry users every day. It happens like this: you hit a button on your BlackBerry just to check the time or see if you have a message or something, and then go back to engaging in non-electronic forms of communication (or reading or something, this is another healthy activity people once used to engage in), and then all of a sudden you're jerked back to cyber-world because your screen lights up!!! And you think, "Do I have a message?", "Is somebody calling me?", "Did I win?!??"... but alas, no. It is just a BlackBerry glitch. The screen is lighting up for no reason. Just to pull your leg.


Please, fix this peculiar behavior of the screen lighting up about one minute after the screen goes to sleep. We know our BlackBerry wants us to give it our full attention, and we actually are closer to this than we are to giving our full attention to anything else. But to tease us is just mean.



Sincerely,




Tara Raffi

Truth Enthusiast


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