The CrackBerry Epidemic - Is it affecting you?
The term ‘Crackberry‘, now voted Word of the Year for 2006 by Webster’s New World Dictionary, has been heard throughout schools, office cubicles and even at your local washroom movie theatre.I stumbled across this term as I was looking for word trends, slang and street lingo while doing SEO Keyword research for a new campaign I am working on.
The humorous part is, there seems to be quite a bit of commotion going on around the web and in the media. They’re saying things like “…this wide spread epidemic could foster a new generation of Crack Babies…”.
I did a few quick searches and found the term defined in several online dictionaries such as the Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary, NetLingo, and the Urban Dictionary.
“The etymological source of the nickname is the highly-addictive rock cocaine, called crack, for the first part of the word, combined with the berry from BlackBerry,” writes James Alan miller, a journalist for SmartPhone Today.
Dictionary Defenition: Nickname for the popular RIM communication device named Blackberry. The device, which is a phone, PDA, and e-mail appliance has gained outrageous popularity. Users/owners are typically addicted to checking e-mail and swapping short messages on the device. It appears as though they are addicted as a crackhead is to the pipe.
Used as: “Look at him. Like he’s a pimp all hooked-up on his crackberry.”
Apparently the runner up was ‘netroots,’ defined as a political movements and candidate advocacy campaigns that spread over the ‘Net’. In my opinion Crackberry is a much more useful term in today’s society.
So I begin to wonder, how exactly does one self-diagnose whether they are addicted to their Crackberry or any other type of hand held PDA device?
Well, you can count on the media to cover that one, check out what FoxNews and NewsWorld have to say about it.
Okay, reach down to your hip, give your trusty PDA a nice little pat on the back and watch this video to see if you are suffering from the most common symptoms of the Crackberry addiction.
And if you do the litmus test and find yourself to be a ‘user’… don’t worry there’s hope, new products are being created ever day to help combat and cope with this new addiction.
Please post your comments as to what you think of the word crackberry…
Signing Off,
Segovia Smith
