I’m betting that Sylvia Brown kicked herself a good one when iTunes started hawking its latest app, a virtual Ouija board.
Satan at one’s fingertips, say some, but with so many of us related to the dead, 
turning our cellphones into a conduit to the other-side is an improvement over giving us a brain tumor and simply sending us there in person.
Touch screens being a fit made in … the beyond … the Ouija app is a must-have for anyone whose ever stored a loved one’s last voice message. No word on if the two can be interfaced.
The Ouija has a gruesome reputation thanks to Hollywood though Christianity besmirched it first, but whether one believes that the departed can be contacted or not, this app has a creepy feel.
I don’t have a phone that does anything other than be a phone, so I can’t speak to the appeal or use of apps in general, but I can’t imagine why anyone would spend actual money on an app that could potentially unleash poltergeists into their natural habitats – electronics. Doesn’t anyone remember Carol Anne and the television? Spielberg is probably ordering up a new sequel using a touch screen even as I type.
Though, now that I think about it, convincing the spirits that knock around our place to live in one of our cell phones could be a potential winner. If it helps them be less cryptic, I’d be all for it.
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anniegirl1138 
Well, you and I may be the last people to have phones that are just phones. If they ever come out with an app that can make a good Margarita, I might reconsider. As for the Ouiji board, I don’t know. I don’t really have a problem with the dead. It’s the living that are a pain in the ass.