People often stereotype millennials as smartphone zombies, but I find that older folk are not immune to the lure of the gadget either.
Take my mother, for example. She has been on this earth for more than half a century, yet she is more attached to her phone than many fellow 20-somethings I know.
She can sit for hours with her eyes glued to the screen, Whatsapping here, Facebooking there, and playing those terrible puzzle games with colourful balls/flowers/food items.
All old people have their quirks when they use technology, and hers is a peculiar obsession with reading and then deleting every single Whatsapp message she gets.
The catch? She is part of about ten different chat groups, many of which average around 200 individual texts a day.
And being rather advanced in age, her mind and fingers are less nimble, so you can imagine what a struggle it must be for her to cope with this deluge!
Sometimes she gets so carried away that she forgets her real-life responsibilities.
There was once, her pet rabbit was sniffing at her ankles, looking for attention.
It got none. Luckily my father passed by and gave it what it wanted: a few pats on the head.
So you see, smartphone addiction is a serious problem, and it affects everyone, not just the young.
In fact, I think it is more dangerous than sugar.
More dangerous than tobacco.
More dangerous, even, than drugs.
It is the biggest threat to our continued existence as a human race since the invention of the Mayan calendar.
Time to impose heavy taxes on smartphones, to
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