Hell-o------Smarty

With more than a billion users worldwide and 2.5 million apps — and counting — available across Google and Apple’s digital marketplaces, smartphones are impacting day-to-day life in some surprising & disturbing ways.

Smartphones Revolutionized Society in Less than a Decade. But, are we missing important things in life because of addiction to smart phones?  

 Let’s have a look at few images, which were picked up through google, describing many alarming situations.

Friends sitting around, yet this is what happens....

Students chatting yet may be in a different way!

Some people so hooked into their phones that they are even ignoring their own kids.

Couple, living in a different world

 Kids ignoring friends’ presence

Using phone while driving, causing innumerable accidents

Youth engaging in taking dangerous selfies

Craze about filming accidents

Taking selfies without sensitivity

Most of us suffer from varying amount of smartphone addiction.

In queue at bank? Log into Linkedin.

Waiting for somebody? Open facebook

In the bus? Gotta check Instagram.

Lunch time? Scroll through Twitter. 

But what about when your smartphone habits start to infringe on the people around you? What do you call it when the constant need to check your phone starts affecting the people you love?

James A. Roberts describes, in his new book Too Much of a Good Thing: Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone?, a phenomenon he aptly names phubbing, a distressing mix of the words "phone" and "snubbing."

We've all experienced phubbing. It's ruining all types of relationships, and it needs to be addressed. Just ask yourself,

Do you feel you are too attached to your device? Or do you put it away at dinners and get to-gethers? Or turn it off when you get home for family time?

Do you use the phone at times even when you know you shouldn't?

Written, Compiled & Edited by

Krishna Kishore Boddapati

Kishore.boddapati@gmail.com

www.sing-india.com