The president’s e-mail can be subpoenaed by Congress and courts and may be subject to public records laws, so if a president doesn’t want his e-mail public, he shouldn’t e-mail, experts said. And there may be security issues about carrying around trackable cell phones.
Obama transition officials haven’t made a decision on what the new president will or will not carry, but those who have been there say it’s unlikely he’ll carry his BlackBerry and he may be in for some withdrawal pains.
So, for Obama that means:
no e-mail
no text messaging
no twitter
no facebook
no myspace
no cell phone
No electronic communications of any kind, unless he wants us all to see everything. How transparent is he? I doubt that transparent. But that is Ok. Maybe, Just maybe without all of that side noise, maybe he will hear that still small voice that has been trying to whisper in his ear.
And maybe, just maybe he will hear all of those babies crying.
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I would have trouble giving up my BlackBerry — I have come to rely on it to keep me plugged in and free from boredom in traffic and store lines. I catch up on email and the news…Never a dull momenet. Today we turn on our BlackBerries. I have struggled to keep proper boundaries. For one thing, many companies have come to expect that you will be “on” during off hours, too. So in this economy it puts extra stress to be responsive and available. Perhaps my tongue-in-cheek letter to the President-elect Obama (http://www.justmypointofview.wordpress.com) might shed some light on how we could cope with our growing BlackBerry addictions: Perhaps by living more in the world of the present with people and less in the world of gadgets and impersonal electronic communications. How many moments have we all lost forever because we were buried in our Blackberries and other mobile devices? How can Obama cope with the loss of his beloved BlackBerry — share your ideas at http://www.justmypointofview.wordpress.com