When you get in your car, you reach for it. When you're at work, you take
a break to have a moment alone with it. When you get into a lift, you play with
it.
Cigarettes? Cup of coffee? No, it's the third most addictive(使人上瘾的) thing in modern life, the cell phone. And experts say it is becoming
more difficult for many people to curb their wishes to hug it more tightly
than most of their personal relationships.
With its shiny surface, its smooth and satisfying touch, the cell phone connects
us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away. It affects
us in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined.
Dr. Chris Knippers, an expert at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California,
reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different
from other harmful addictions: a barrier to one-on-one personal contact, and an
escape from reality.
Sounds extreme, but we've all witnessed the evidence: the person at a restaurant
who talks on the phone through an entire meal, ignoring his kids around the table;
the woman who talks on the phone in the car, ignoring her husband; the teen who
texts messages all the way home from school, avoiding contact with kids all around
him. Is it just rude, or is it a kind of unhealthiness? And pardon me, but how is
this improving the quality of life?
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