Young people not interested in anything but their phones

My DH is a phone addict too, drives me nuts. It was only a few weeks ago after a meal that both my GC with partners, and DH all sitting around looking at their phones .. I was the only one not on my phone I was watching the Film they all wanted to see.
What makes it worse they are all looking at rubbish.

The physio student should be reprimanded by his tutor. Poor placement practice.
My adult daughters have a no phones at the table rule, or in social situations. Their young children do not have phones (5 and 7) thankfully. My DH is the worst culprit …. ! I hate it when I see whole families out for a meal
- all on their phones . One dad with two young girls trying to get his attention - couldn’t take his eyes off his phone. It’s not the use of the phone I object to it’s the killing of real social interaction . Yet here I am on my phone ! But I’m ill so I’ll excuse myself thankyou !

I live in a college town and if I happen to drive through when classes are changing , the kids are walking with heads down while on their phones. They pay no attention to surroundings and will even walk out in front of cars. I've also noticed people of all ages ignoring their companions while on their phones when eating out.

There will be parents in Australia where this ban is to be implemented
. I'm pretty sure parents still find a way round if got them.
Very hard to police I'd think

I volunteer with young teens and pre-teens and thankfully don’t see much of this phone obsession. Usually when one of them has just got a phone there seems to be a reluctance to put it away but that doesn’t last long. They become too interested and engaged in the activities we do. Sadly my daughter’s school don’t allow them to look at their phones during the day, unless needed in a lesson. This has fuelled her school-based anxiety as she can’t talk to me at lunch to calm her down.

We were in Singapore a week ago and made good use of their MRT system- underground- looking down the carriage each time, almost every person was tapping away on their phones. Everywhere we went the phone was king. Is this the future for us too?

I agree that the fixation is spread equally across all age groups.

Mothers pushing prams, dog walkers, people eating their lunch in the park, men waiting for a fish to bite..........one day they will look up and realise they've missed the best moments of their life by spending them looking at photos of other people's dinners on Instagram.

This is surely an addiction-to having to be constantly stimulated, I would say. And I think it’s all age groups. I was on a long train trip today and nearly everyone regardless of age was just looking at a phone. One good thing was that it was nice and quiet!

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Physio should have told him to get off his phone! Student is there to learn not tag along...and student should know better.

Physio was in the loo.

Tik Tok draws people in. I prefer to spend my time making money on eBay. Kerching. Much better than laughing at people messing around but each to their own.

It’s a complete distraction to our teenager kids.my grand daughter is just 10 year old nd all she cares is her phone she can be staring at the phone for couple hours nd won’t move an inch

It is shocking that they can’t go or do anything without their phones .
But who is it to blame ?
Is it the parents that start them off to keep them Quiet in early years or schools for allowing it .