We have all been to a concert, a film, or church where someone has had to ask people to turn off their mobile telephones. The situation is so bad at our church that we have to make the following announcement ;-)
"This is a No Technology Zone. There will be no technology used on the premises except for specially designated areas at specially designated times. Wi-Fi has been turned off and shields have been put up against infra-red, bluetooth, and radio technologies.
Please turn off all mobile phones, MP3 players, iPhones, iTouches, iShuffles, and any other type of iDevices, personal computers, palms, laptop computers, PC tablets, Macs, desktop computers, Blackberrys, pagers, beepers, bloopers, and microwave ovens.
Please refrain from Skyping, Twittering, re-Twittering, blogging, MySpacing, Googling, Yahooing, hacking, searching, posting, uploading, downloading, free loading, or chatting in any way (including but not limited to using ICQ, MSN Chat, AOL, facebook chat, or other third party vendors of communication software).
During our time together, please do not surf, search, browse, check email, look at, or in another other way interact with YouTube, MyTube, facebook, MySpace, Google Earth, Google Moon, MyGameSpace, Yahoo games, MSN, CNN, BBC, NBC, iTunes, RealPlayer, Unreal Player, or Average Player.
Please also refrain from using web-cams, video cameras, digital cameras, phone cameras, spy cameras, satellite cameras, GPS systems, infra-red goggles, motorcycle goggles, or swimming goggles.
If you are caught using any of the aforementioned devices, activities, or websites, you will be immediately escorted off the premises, pay a $500 fee, be arrested, AND forfeit your facebook account for one week. Thank you for your cooperation."
...and everyone got up and left. ;-) (either that or they couldn't function!)
ReplyDeleteHilarious! I'll have to show that to Joe.
It seems like that in this day and age. I am pretty amazed at some of the computer addictions I have seen (and participated in ;-)
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