Joke - Being Part of the 3G Revolution

You know you have missed the 3G revolution, when:
- you are the object of constant peer pressure by your family and friends to update your mobile phone
- you possess only one (1) telephone
- that annoying blinking sign of an envelope on your mobile phone screen keeps disturbing you, but you don't dare to ask your grandchildren again how to open the text message
- you still have to CALL home to check what to buy at the grocer’s – instead of just being connected to the camera in your fridge
- you find latest news from a newspaper, watch weather forecasts on TV and listen to traffic updates on the radio
- you still leave voice mail instead of hanging up at the announcement and sending a text message instead
- friends dismiss you because you don’t have your terminal switched on 24/7
- you think this list is funny and you want to fax it to your friends..... (wake up friend, nobody uses a fax any more, except lawyers, but as it is -they are "nobody"...)
- you think this list is NOT funny and you want to harass your friends by mailing it to them.... except you don't have any stamps
- you keep having to explain that yes you do have a mobile phone and yes it does function, only that you don't see the need to carry it everywhere

You know you are part of the 3G revolution, when:
- you have walked into a traffic sign while composing a message or playing a game while walking
- When you look back the good old times when a terminal was still called a mobile phone and the only thing you could do with it was to telephone
- your drawers are full of terminals, wires, rechargers, spare batteries, handsfree sets and none are compatible with another
- whenever you see a vending machine you instinctively point your mobile phone at it
- you feel like all of society has forgotten you if you have not received messages from anyone for the last two hours
- the monthly bill to the provider is higher than the rent for you apartment… and you are more than happy to pay it.
- you feel completely lost when you forget your mobile phone, and suicidal when your mobile phone gets stolen
- you develop a tamagochi-like relationship with your terminal and speak of “feeding the baby” when you recharge the battery
- you are so accustomed to taking snapshots of everybody with your camera phone that you have accidentally taken a picture of your own reflection in a mirror
- you believe that there is a secret burial ground for old terminals somewhere in Lapland
- you say to your spouse “honey, they are playing our ringing tone”

dedicated to Tomi T Ahonen on http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/