Moving past the smartphone addiction

Social media is ADDICTIVE and this is a well known fact. And in today's digitally wired world, getting connected to start using social media doesn't require much more than a cheap android smartphone.

These gadgets are everywhere turning their addiction lamp on both the young as well as the old.

Now,it's quite common to feel bad when you don't carry your smartphone along with you. So you could find yourself at a restaurant waiting to eat and the first thing you do is pull out your smart phone and check email, chat or social media.

Everywhere you look, people are glued to their smartphones and don't care whether they're driving, walking,at the shopping mall or engaged in one activity or the other. If statistics is anything to go by then just know that about 50% of smartphone users indicate their life would being worthless without a smartphone.

While appreciation for the smartphone is most welcomed as a means of connecting with each other through also social media, making it something you can't live without is like saying other things in life don't matter much or have very little significance. Can you move past this addiction?