Android Police: Smartphone addiction is worth talking about, but it probably isn't a social crisis

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Smartphone addiction is worth talking about, but it probably isn't a social crisis

"Smartphone addiction" is a term that entered our cultural lexicon relatively recently - you could say it's A Thing. And it's a thing increasingly cited by techno-skeptics and self-help authors looking to capitalize on our natural desire to purge "unhealthy" habits from our lives (historically, a very American kind of fad). Not to mention: the ever-popular fear that we're all being spied on. Some people are even switching back to dumphones to avoid all the awfulness smartphones have brought into our lives. In short, the smartphone's ubiquity has made it The Next Big Source of All Your Problems^TM.

Smartphone addiction is worth talking about, but it probably isn't a social crisis was written by the awesome team at Android Police.