After I have been reading an article by Peter Burrows, here it is, about the phenomenon iPhone and the obsession around it, I cannot help to be a bit amazed but at the same time wondering about the future.

I am one of who always lets my hand slip over my pocket to see if my phone is still there and think that I felt a text or my phone buzz in my pocket when I actually can have it right in my hand in front of me.

Born in 1990 I got my first phone when I was ten years old, and that phone was only for calling my parents or to send a text.

As Larry Rosen says, “The iPhone has changed everything about how we relate to technology, for both good and bad,” I could not agree more.

It is good that you easily can call a friend, your mother, a cab or the pizzeria but it also makes people taking for granted that they always can get a hold on you quick and easy. Witch can make you feel forced to always have your phone with you.

But as an example, you always carry your job email with you, it’s making it very hard to let go off work even when you’re at home at night. It is so easy to take a look at your email “just to be prepared for tomorrow” and maybe that email was something you will have to redo and just have to wait till the morning witch will make you think of work the last thing you think of before you go to sleep.
And maybe that email needed a quick answer, so you had to answer it.
In both cases, you will feel stress over your work. You may just not know about it yet.

So this article made me start thinking about what a stressful thing this iPhone really is! The stress of always being connected, being online. I know that I feel uncomfortable if my phone looses its internet connection. Actually, it would make me want to go home.

And also, I would have to turn back home if I found out that I forgot it at the breakfast table.

Im definitly having an obsession about my phone. But do I want to do anything about it? That is an easy question to answer, but will I do anything about it? That is the question.