Do you remember what you did when you last met your best friend? \u00a0Did you have a nice chat with your friends last time you met them, or were you taking pictures of the meal to post on Instagram?<\/p>\n
Sadly, this is becoming more and more common.\u00a0It\u2019s fashionable to speak about smartphone addiction and it has many other names today such as \u2018nomophobia\u2019, or cell phone vibration syndrome\u2026 It\u2019s great that the disease is not embarrassing and that it\u2019s gaining better recognition in the public eye.<\/p>\n
However,\u00a0if we\u2019ll look into the matter a little more, is it at all a disease at all? \u00a0Or are we making a mountain out of a molehill? \u00a0Are we being frightened by horror stories, written by people who want to see us a \u201ccure\u201d? \u00a0We\u2019re all too quick to label somebody as an \u201caddict\u201d if they spend a large portion of time on their phone.<\/p>\n
After all, what\u2019s so terrible about the fact that every half an hour I check my email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Vine, Tumblr, Google+ and some 20 more applications?<\/p>\n
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\u201c<\/strong>Whether I am a trembling creature?..<\/strong>\u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n The need to know everything that is going on around us falls under the category of primitive instincts, says psychologist Nicholas Carr, who studied the issue of what the Internet is doing to our brains<\/a>. There was a time when \u201chunger for information\u201d helped our cave dwelling ancestors to survive. Today, when the information available is, mildly speaking, excessive, the instinct doesn\u2019t always work to our advantage \u2014 it, rather, hampers the normal life.<\/p>\n It is the same as gaining body fat: there was a time when the store of fat around the waist helped people to live through the times of hunger, thus increasing their chances to survive. \u00a0Today, with our sedentary lives, it\u2019s quite the opposite.<\/p>\n