There have been studies that show people become addicted to their phones - as well as other electronic devices, to gaming. Being on these devices lights up the same part of the brain that heroin or gambling or other addictions do.
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Originally Posted by thedwightguy
I'm waiting for the study to come out proving that cell phones facilitate,
and perhaps even cause to develop, obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
Last summer we had new workers that actually COULDN'T stop answering their phones,
even after being cautioned that it would be sending them home if head office types
showed up and saw them doing it. I'm not kidding.
We had a group of late teens/twenty somethings that otherwise appeared "normal" but
apparently they are the cell phones "tool", not the other way around.
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