Blackberry... Addictive?

Why do Blackberry users get so addicted? Five reasons..

It has gotten to a point were kids and parents no longer socialize physically, but they communicate at all time through the black berry messenger that "the company blackberry" provides. There are 5 main reasons why Anna Leach the author of this article states different reasons of why it is so addictive.
1) Blackberries make noise by default and they push notify by default. It's hard to switch either of those things off.
2) Blackberry Messenger - there are apps for this on iPhone, but Blackberry has had instant messaging built in from the start. IM your fellow Blackberry owners for free in this fast-paced ping-ping-a-go-go. It works whenever you and your friends' Blackberries are on - which is like, all the time right?
3) Let's not just examine the phone, the users are important too: Blackberry users are probably the sort who want to be pinged all the time. Probably if they don't check their email for 10 minutes they'll have lost out on a massive oil/property/lunch deal
4) Habit, if you start checking and sending email every 5 mins, people expect you to check and send email every 5 mins and start to think things are wrong if you haven't responded in 10. It's a hard habit to break.
5) Blackberry is a status symbol. Whatever other handset owners may think, Blackberries still say high-powered, serious business-person in-demand and Blackberry-owners like to flaunt that by taking it out and waving it around. Proof? there's a facebook group called: "I have a BlackBerry, I'm out of your league".
It is clear, and we all know that technology is becoming every time stronger and it is taking over our lives. It is important that you separate time to what is really important, family since even you think you are interacting with them all day it is never the same.