So as some of you may know my BlackBerry has been malfunctioning for the past few weeks since I updated the OS. The battery has been running at a minimum heat of 38°C on a near daily basis and as a result I’m having to send it in for repair. What’s strange is how much this worries me. For a year now I’ve been constantly connected. To my email accounts, my twitter accounts, the internet and various other things that I’ve integrated into part of my daily life. SO the thought of using a (kindly donated) loaner phone for a couple of weeks with no real access to these capabilities is an alarming thing.

I’m already contemplating the feasibility of carrying my laptop around and constantly making use of Wi-Fi access while I’m at University so that I don’t lose connectivity with these different services. This is what worries me the most. The fact I now feel the need to be constantly connected, to the point where the idea of a week without everything I’ve grown used to has me scrabbling to enact a contingency. Is this something other people experience? Have Smartphones integrated so much into society that this is a rational response?