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their longing to hug it more tightly than most of their personal relationships .
With its shiny surface , its smooth and satisfying touch , its air of complexity , the cell phone connects us to the world even as it disconnects us from people three feet away . In just the past couple of years , the cell phone has challenged individuals , employers , phone makers and counselors(顾问)in ways its inventors in the late 1940s never imagined .
The costs are becoming more and more evident,and I don't mean just the monthly bill.Dr.Chris Knippers,a counselor at the Betty Ford Center in Southern California,reports that the overuse of cell phones has become a social problem not much different from other harmful addictions:a barrier to one-on-one personal contact,and all escape from reality.
Sounds extreme,but we've all witnessed the evidence:The person at a restaurant who talks on the phone through an entire meal,ignoring his kids around the table;the woman who talks on the phone in the car,ignoring her husband;the teen who texts messages all the way home from school,avoiding contact with kids all around him.
Is it just rude , or is it a kind of unhealthiness ? And pardon me , but how is this improving the quality of life ?
Jim Williams,an industrial sociologist based in Massachusetts,notes that cell-phone addiction is part of a set of symptoms in a widening gu1f of personal separation.He points to a study by Duke University researchers that found one-quarter of Americans say they have no one to discuss their most important personal business with.Despite the growing use of phones,e-mail and instant messaging , in other words,Williams says studies show that we don't have as many friends as our parents . "Just as more information has led to less wisdom,more acquaintances via the Internet and cell phones have produced fewer friends , " he says.
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