Literature Review

When You Text Till You Drop

By BRYAN BURROUGH

Published: May 12, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/business/in-idisorder-a-look-at-mobile-device-addiction-review.html

Summary from Stone:

This is an article from New York Times talking about mobile phone addiction because of the rising use of technology. It can help us fast digest some explanations and discoveries about mobile phone addiction.

Abstract from Stone:

The article called this phenomenon techno-disorder. According to this article and the a book that the author referred to, the so-called techno-boorishness will result in mentally ill-especially those who are prone to narcissism, for example, or to depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychologists divided Twitter users into “informers,” those who pass along interesting facts, and “meformers,” those who pass along interesting facts about only themselves. To explain this behavior phenomenon, the article suggests, “What we need, he says, is a sense of restorative balance and self-awareness.” Finally, the article suggests some common but not useless methods to help us to combat this techno-disorder.

Original article:

I DON’T know about you, but I’ve always found the debate about what our mobile devices are doing to us — to our behaviors, our manners, our minds — at least as interesting as reports about what we’re doing with these devices.

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What about that gent who was talking loudly into his Android phone on the Metro-North train this morning? Was he really that obnoxious before we all went wireless — or did the device somehow change him? And what about all those young people who spend hours upon hours texting and sexting and Facebooking? What kinds of adults will they become?

Is the casual anonymity of Internet discussion turning us into boors? What did we once do with all the hours we now spend obsessively checking e-mail and texts? Smoke?

Larry D. Rosen, a California...