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What we, as a society, need to recognize is that it's an addiction and treat it accordingly. People are addicted to their phones. The constant access to people and information right there in your hand.
Have you seen how people react when put in a situation where their phone goes off and they are told not to check it? They've done studies on it. People get anxious. They want to know what's going on. The longer they're deprived, the worse it gets. Throw in repeated notifications and it starts making them upset.
Very true, CF. The wife and I were Holiday shopping last Christmas at the mall (we live in America, so you have to go THROUGH the mall to get to the outside world..LOL!), she went into a store for about 30 minutes while I sat on a bench near the center of the mall. I did a little 'case study' of my own just observing how many people had their faces buried in their phones. It astounded me! Close to 75% were either talking, texting, or...maybe...looking at online p*on. Demographics were not an issue either...all ages and genders were guilty. Kinda depressed me a bit, so I just played a bingo game. On my phone.