Ridiculous obsession

Have you ever had a family gathering, a social function or a business meeting ruined by someone that was obsessed with checking their cell phone?  I see this wherever I go, and it is one of the reasons why I don’t like to leave the house much.  No matter who is around and no matter how important what they are supposed to be doing may be, many Americans feel a deep, dark compulsion to constantly check their smartphones.  As you will see below, the average user checks his or her phone 35 times a day, but of course there are some people that are well into the triple digits.  Cell phone addiction is very real, and that is why there are actually rehab programs for this sort of thing.  Unfortunately, we simply can’t put the entire country into rehab, and this problem just keeps getting worse with each passing year. ... 

To me, our society was so much better off when all we had were rotary phones that were physically tied to the wall.  In this day and age, we have a generation of people that have been trained to think that it is okay to pull out their mobile devices and stare into them like zombies wherever they are.  And especially among our young people there are many that start to get physically uncomfortable if they have to talk to you for more than five minutes without checking their phones.

Of course this is just another indication of how “me-centered” our society has become.  Our phones have literally become extensions of ourselves, and we love to immerse ourselves in our own little worlds.

There is something deeply narcissistic about our love affair with these smartphones.  Yes, I understand that millions of us have to use them for work, and in many ways they do make our lives much more convenient.
But on the other hand they are greatly contributing to the sense of loneliness and isolation that so many Americans are feeling these days.
Instead of having deep, meaningful relationships with our phones, perhaps we should try having deep, meaningful relationships with one another.
After all, previous generations of Americans seemed to have done just fine without checking their phones every five minutes.

Smartphones ? No ! Dumbphones !!

Read : http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/cell-phone-addiction-15-numbers-that-reveal-the-ridiculous-obsession-americans-have-with-their-phones.