Phone Addiction

2018 was the year we all woke up and realised that the SmartPhone and heavy usage of Social Media might becoming a social problem. Its often rude, and the distractions makes it positively dangerous on the streets. By Martin Dower.

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Together, but miles apart

Quite how we naintain actual relationships when our phones manage so effectively to remove us from the here and now. Not very mindfulness.

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Why?

The need to stay connected forces us to stop whatever we are doing and stare at the little blue-device. Regardless of where we are.

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Brief: The inexorable rise of phone-walking dead

The iPhone is only a decade old, Facebook has just turned 15 but both have conspired to turn the human race into the walking dead - millions of folks now depend on the regular dopamine hits delivered by this insanely micro-managed life experience enhancer platform.