I finished a survey on BizChicksRule this day, and one of the questions stopped me in my tracks. Here it is:
Which of the following do you use regularly or within the last 30 days:
- GPS Unit
- Digital camera
- Blu-ray player
- Blackberry/Smartphone/iPhone
- iPod or MP3 player
- Other mobile/cell phone without email functionaity
- LCD or plasma television
- Video game console
- Digital video recorder/camcorder
- Desktop computer
- DVD player
- Laptop/notebook personal
I hate to tell you how many of these I checked: 8 out of 12! That’s 75 percent of all this high-tech stuff. So, do you think I’m too “wired”? After all, when we grew up, we’d tiny of this stuff. I remember being thrilled when we got our first color television - that was about as “high tech” as we got back then.
This day, I’m checking out the new BlackBerry BOLD and thinking, “I probably should get that. I could really use one of those.” Or the BlackBerry Pearl FLIP…how about that one? Or the STORM (see photo)?
I already have a BlackBerry, which I use for checking email when I’m traveling. It also has a neat GPS ability, although my husband complains that he doesn’t like the sound on the directions. (Picky, picky.)
Wait a minute! What in the world do I need that thing for? Isn’t it neat the way the look of these new devices makes us want them? What is it about the size and shape of this stuff that causes us to think we have to have it?
We (Baby Boomers, all of us) have created what I call the “Big Mac” Mentality - We want it and we want it NOW. We don’t want to wait for anything, and we want it OUR WAY…supersized. That might be what has caused some of our problems with the credit crunch - too much credit card debt for too many things. Time to cut back. What do you think?
Tags: , baby boomers, Huge Mac, Blackberry, GPS, RIM
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