Blackberry: Now Making Interpersonal Communication Even More Difficult

“I was with a bunch of hot girls and we would just walk into bars, whip out our BlackBerries and try to get guys to look at them by flirting… We’d say, ‘Put your number in my phone and I’ll totally call you. We’ll go out on a date!’ But we just wanted them to try the BlackBerry. I definitely didn’t call anyone.”
-Julia Royter, a “pretty 26-year-old actress” who claims she was paid by BlackBerry to stealth-market the Pearl via flirtation, a practice she calls “pretty evil… You never know who is trying to sell you something.” Later on a president of something called “Street Guerilla Marketing” defends this particular practice with the old saw that “any buzz is good buzz,” although something tells me that a person smarting from rejection will have 50 things on their mind before they fondly reflect on the make and model of whatever smartphone their non-conquest was brandishing.