Here I am agreeing with you while I am reading this post on my phone!
I am conscious of how the phone interferes with social connection and distracts from being present but probably am not as good at it as I can be. With so many moving parts of my life needing my attention with teenage girls needing help, a business to run and an active social life, it is a way to keep my hand on those wheels while doing other stuff. Still, I am training myself not to enjoy the dopamine that comes from a buzzing alert and keep my brain wondering and piecing things rather than just looking them up and knowing.
I love seeing the social media posts encouraging people not to take their phones with them on dinner dates, when they are with kids, or even to the washroom. Maybe we will get to the point it is taboo and more effort is put into ignoring the phone but it keeps getting better!
One benefit I have experienced is I am a little more in the moment and looking out for wonderful little details so that I can photograph them and share them via the blockchain or even use pics as story aids or stock photos for business reasons.
Still, I love these reminders and will make this my last phone curation this morn!
People exchange their real world for what's on their screen the phone is a tool, nothing more, but people tumble into them and place so much importance on them and make excuses (they see as valid) for why. They live through other people's (usually fake) lives and justify it by saying, I'm keeping up with friends and family, all the while failing to live their lives.
I have no problems with a phone being used as a tool, like a carpenter uses a hammer, or how toilet paper or a shoe is used...but when it becomes someone's world, that's not so good. And yet, people exchange their real lives for the fake and inconsequential world the fall into on their phones.