It's Sunday night and I was just congratulating myself for not responding to any work emails all weekend, when I happened across this BBC News article on technology addiction through a reference on Drew Meyers's blog. That's when I realized that I may not have actually responded to work-related emails, but I certainly did check my Blackberry a few dozen times in the span of the last two days.
I also played around in both Second Life and the private beta version of another metaverse that I'm not supposed to talk about. I checked (and responded to) personal and blog-related emails, surfed the web, checked in at all my favorite marketing blogs and bounced around MyBlogLog to see who was checking out my blog over the weekend. And none of this accounts for the two hours I spent on the phone today with Ann Handley and Valeria Maltoni - because, ya know, they're actual people.
So, um, yeah - I guess I have a problem. But if you ask me, technology is a scapegoat here. Sure, technology makes it easier -- almost irresistible -- to stay connected to business even when I should be enjoying some family time. But the technology is just enabling my addiction to work. Somebody please take my Blackberry and laptop away. Please...
