[mohsinkhan35]

Be Nice to Your Sad Friends with BlackBerries

Not sure why people r hating on our berries soo much, i am still using my bold 9700 and not ashamed of it.

[amjass12]

lol wow. although i guess its a good set of instructions on manners for the iphone crowd lol...

Sent from my BlackBerry 9900 using Tapatalk

[jafrul]

Plato said "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." This is particularly true if you meet someone using a BlackBerry, perhaps the hardest of all battles. But they don't deserve pity. Around BlackBerry users, we must remember manners, courtesy, and a few basic rules of kindness.
Don't be a snob.
Gadget snobbery is never OK. It's ignorant and obnoxious to tell someone they're a bad person because of a phone (unless that phone is a Galaxy Note). Within the rest of the handset nebula, you should let your fellow man stand by his choice.

But BlackBerry owners are different. They were once a haughty, QWERTY-clutching elite�bankers, lawyers, Illuminati chairmen, Yale professors, and various other broad-jawed goons from the corridors of power. No more. The RIM faithful are the people who got left out of the doomsday vault�the Japanese soldiers still wandering around the jungle waiting to snipe GIs. They're at a point beneath teasing. We need to start giving them sympathy. We have to coexist.

It's probably not their fault.
Your typical BlackBerry user doesn't use it because they want to�they use it because they have to. Maybe their Paleolithic employer probably requires it�it's still a requisite for modern business in someone's faded brain. Or maybe they can't afford a new phone. Or maybe they really, really love a good keyboard, which can't be found elsewhere. Maybe they're chained to a family plan. The point is: They have no other options.

So you can't fault someone for using a BlackBerry, because nobody really wants to be using a BlackBerry. Have you ever made fun of someone for using a wheelchair? Probably not. If you have, you're awful.

Don't ask.
"Dude, you're still using a BlackBerry?"

Yeah, they are, . You know they are. Highlighting the misfortune of others isn't going to get anyone to make out with you. And a BlackBerry user isn't going to change their ways because of your ridicule. They know they have a BlackBerry. Whatever the reason is, it's their business. When they make a call, just look away, and try to smile.

Don't stare.
Unless it's on a hip-holster, in which case, walk away.

Compliment BBM.
RIM still has one thing going for it: BBM is the best phone messaging system of all time. It makes iMessage look like a poopy diaper. Giving your friend's 'Berry the respect it deserves for instant, reliable phone IMing is a good way to establish common ground. Sample conversation:

You: "Oh, man, I wish my phone had BBM. It's still the best."
Them: "Thanks. But I want to die."

Loan your phone.
When you see someone pushing a busted bicycle along the side of a dark, muddy road, you don't just leave them there. You give them a ride. Open your door�this is a metaphor�and let a BB user borrow your phone for a second. Sample conversation:

Them: "Hey, do you mind if I check the Orioles score? I'm following them in the World Series."
You: "Um, sure!"

Share what luxury you have. Let them use your phone's snappy browser. For a moment, you both feel content. Until they learn the truth about the Flock.

Be sympathetic.
Be understanding. Be generous. Be nice. Because someday, you might be on the bottom rung of the social ladder, still clinging to your hopelessly outdated old iPhone.

and yet another one.

Come on guys.. u dont have to click on the link. most bloggers would use this opportunity of bashing others to get more clicking on their blog. and yet we help them by giving a link.
they're taking advantage of this BlackBerry bashing by writing such stuff.

do not support them. just read what I've copied from the blog and stop clicking the link.

#blackberry by choice. Sent from my 9800 torch.

[GTiLeo]

Be Nice to Your Sad Friends with BlackBerries

Not sure why people r hating on our berries soo much, i am still using my bold 9700 and not ashamed of it.

i commented i don't see it posted though :S

[badiyee85]

I feel the same way about iPhone users and their isheep mentality, and the same to Android users too, either they have the biggest e-phallus, or "waiting to be surgically upgraded" with one.

I don't detest them, I don't laugh at them, maybe they became an iSheep because they got pressured into one, maybe they need to sport a really big e-phallus because they felt threatened, but really... I don't look down nor do I feel anoyyed with them. I just feel pity to the iSheep and the droidboys.

Be sympathetic to their faces.
Be understanding on their lack of love.
Be generous.
Bee nice.
Because someday, they WILL be bottom rung on the social ladder, and still clinging foolishly to their iPhone like the iPhail it was (and still is), or your Android that that once your e-phallus already surgically modified probably every 18 days with e-viagras out of fear of not being the alpha geek male.

[GTiLeo]

and yet another one.

Come on guys.. u dont have to click on the link. most bloggers would use this opportunity of bashing others to get more clicking on their blog. and yet we help them by giving a link.
they're taking advantage of this BlackBerry bashing by writing such stuff.

do not support them. just read what I've copied from the blog and stop clicking the link.

#blackberry by choice. Sent from my 9800 torch.

i beg to differ, they are taking advantage of another article put out by NYT in order to insult something and users based on their choice of smartphone. its actually pretty pathetic that they don't have the balls to say it in a mass crouwd of people but rather on the internet hidden behind a screen where they really don't have to defend themselves when peopel go on the defensive, they can simply ignore it or insult some more rather then face some of the people that are looking to take advantage of any chance to punch someone out, and trust me tehr are people with rage issues that are willing to weatehr its mature or not, i'm one of those weather i'm proud of it or not theres only so much i'll take

[cgk]

That article looks pretty tongue in cheek to me (look they slammed the galaxy note as well) - maybe people should just shrug their shoulders or maybe develop a sense of humour?

Having said that, it did make me wince at one point because I used a hip holster for a while... Well until someone pointed out that it made me look a massive tool.

[richardat]

I feel the same way about iPhone users and their isheep mentality, and the same to Android users too, either they have the biggest e-phallus, or "waiting to be surgically upgraded" with one.

I don't detest them, I don't laugh at them, maybe they became an iSheep because they got pressured into one, maybe they need to sport a really big e-phallus because they felt threatened, but really... I don't look down nor do I feel anoyyed with them. I just feel pity to the iSheep and the droidboys.

Be sympathetic to their faces.
Be understanding on their lack of love.
Be generous.
Bee nice.
Because someday, they WILL be bottom rung on the social ladder, and still clinging foolishly to their iPhone like the iPhail it was (and still is), or your Android that that once your e-phallus already surgically modified probably every 18 days with e-viagras out of fear of not being the alpha geek male.

YIkes. Ugly. The difference is....the article writer was trying to be funny. :-(

[GTiLeo]

That article looks pretty tongue in cheek to me (look they slammed the galaxy note as well) - maybe people should just shrug their shoulders or maybe develop a sense of humour?

Having said that, it did make me wince at one point because I used a hip holster for a while... Well until someone pointed out that it made me look a massive tool.

who cares how it makes you look, i wear one and its a convenience thing, its in a place that is easy access, doesn't twist and bulk up my pockets forcing discomfort.

another thing we have been forced to shrug off enough garbage about what we choose to use, it comes to a point where we say enough is enough and start to get angree and defensive. its easy enough to "say shrug it off" but like the emo kid that brings a shot gun to school and starts blowing people away then turns it on himself because he takes verbal and physical abuse day after day, it just comes to a point where we as people say "f@#@ this, enough is enough" and start to take action dispite it being right or wrong

[cgk]

who cares how it makes you look, i wear one and its a convenience thing, its in a place that is easy access, doesn't twist and bulk up my pockets forcing discomfort.

To be honest, I like to have sex with attractive women so I do care how I look.

[GTiLeo]

To be honest, I like to have sex with attractive women so I do care how I look.

lol i have sex with an attractive woman on a regular basis and even if i didn't its not exactly hard for me to get laid, my girlfriend likes to point out all the attention i get and all the "hot women" checkign me out or even flirting with me when we go out so you clearly are doing soemthign wrong and its not the hip holster

just an FYI i also have my keys on a D ring on a belt loop, call me a nerd but i'm still a hot nerd

[howarmat]

http://forums.crackberry.com/general...-hatin-750440/