Comments on: Do we really need TV news updates in the bathroom?

By: David Levin

David Levin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:34:17 +0000

They say that today’s teenagers absorb more information in one week than people in the 18th century absorbed in a lifetime. So I guess the toilet is an appropriate place to make us even more highly absorbant.

By: Maria Lokken

Maria Lokken — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:07:40 +0000

Mike – you’re very funny. Yes there is a line between need and want. I find sometimes I’m waaaayyy too plugged in. And that’s when it’s time for me to take a walk and look around. It’s refreshing and I’m always creatively energized after doing something away from any electronic equipment.

By: Mike McNamara

Mike McNamara — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:46:58 +0000

If ever there was a time to think about the difference between the difference between “need” and “want”, the answer to this question for me is it.

Do I NEED news updates every single minute of your life?

Heck no. In fact, the idea of not being able to chose when to be updated frightens me.

But since I sit at my desk with my feed reader open and walk around with my iPhone reading my feed reader for the rest of the day and have even been known to…yeah, you know what, I’m not going to talk about my electronic news bathroom reading habits in detail, but you get the picture… Anyway, based on my actions, I apparently do WANT them. And though there’s more than just me out there, I would think that everyone who WANTED to be this connected could find a way and that there isn’t a NEED to force this on anyone. So why do it?

I think your first picture — the one showing a GMC advertisement — says it all. I’m no AdBuster but when the day comes when I can’t choose to stand at the urinal without being shilled to… yikes, gives me chills.