Hello my name is Dave, and I am a smartphonoholic…
I guess I just invented a new word, but smartphonoholic is kind of how you could describe me nowadays. It all started since I got my first Android phone, the whole world was available from under my fingertips. Following blogs, the news, check Facebook, check Twitter, check the weather, check my e-mail, check my pageviews, my AdSense revenue, my Android developer console, my AdMob revenue and the list goes on and on. I have so many things to check on my phone which are constantly updated that I barely have time to put the phone down at all. It is starting to annoy my girlfreind, my family but luckily not my friends because they also all have Android phones which they can’t put down…
I don’t know how the rest of you experience it, but it has become somewhat of a compulsion for me to just have my phone in my hands and do something with it, anything at all. Sometimes I notice that I am scrolling through my homescreens with no real purpose, that’s weird.
I need help, I admit it, but I am afraid it will only become worse because each week there is a new app with new stuff to check, or a new game which keep me busy for hours. Please tell me in the comments that you recognize something of yourself in my story so I won’t feel so bad about it
I recently asked him who he would pick if he had to choose between me and his HTC desire, it was followed by an uncomfortably long silence… So yeah, he really is addicted to his smartphone! Even all of our friends have smartphones, so almost every conversation goes about different App’s and other phone related stuff.. It makes me feel a little left out. But I guess I probably would be addicted too, if I had a smartphone. So I just have to tolerate it for a few more months until I too have a smartphone. Though it would be nice if he could put his phone down once in a while.