Cellular Addiction

Post Date

Thu, 01/02/2020 - 06:36

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Lifestyle

Are you addicted to your cellphone? The question was recently posed to me and I have been considering it for the past few days. Many thoughts.... Addiction is a loaded word. Is it appropriate to our relationship with these now generally accepted standard devices? Obviously useful. Utility or addiction? A little of both? Connection to others at the cost of communication with those around you. I am still amazed when I see two people having dinner at a restaurant. A quiet table, perhaps a candle, both on their cellphones. Understandable when one is left alone...but how quickly do we reach for our phones? Can a even a moment “out of touch” be tolerated? “I need to check my phone.” Are they the modern words of addiction?

Comments

Carly Bentley

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Yes, I think dependency is an appropriate word for the hyper focus on our phones. We should control it, before it controls us.

Fred Klein

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My wife says I’m addicted.

Daniel Schwartz

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Yes. We are and addicted society. I rarely see anyone at a restaurant without a phone in their hand or on the table. Heck, my step daughter can't eat a meal alone in our kitchen without a video running.

Rona Gura

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I actually have been coming to that realization. I feel that I have to answer emails and texts immediately. Trying to get better. Put it away early evening New Years Eve and didn't look at it again until the next day.

Corey Bearak

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Are you limiting this blog to voice call use? For me the email, text, websearch/ article read/ twitter, calendar, Notes and access to files functions/uses (and some other apps) matter more. Thus my iPhone and iPad are essentially extensions of my MacBook.
I actually discourages calls to my cell; the voice message says to call my LAND LINE (think Nancy's blog); even the redesign of my latest business card served to induce folks to landline over cell.

Marilyn Genoa

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It is definitely a problem. I find it annoying and rude to have someone constantly looking a their phone while in the midst of a conversation. A colleague with young children recently told me that she has observed her children texting to someone in the same room with them, rather than directly speaking to them.

Neil Hollander

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Soon, All that will be left of us is a throbbing mass that used to reside inside our skull . Everything else will have become vestigial . Like our ear lobes and pinky toe . We are evolving into lesser creatures as technology advances . We are doomed as a species as we now know it . We can’t help ourselves . Like vermin we scramble towards extinction and destroy everything we touch on our way out . We are doomed and have become prisoners of our own device . You can check out any time you like . But you can never leave .

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