A new disease is sweeping the nation. As you look around the room, you may be able to see it spreading as you read. You might even be engaging in the spread of this virus as you read this post on your phone while others are breathing and interacting around you. This new disease that is sweeping America The World is the Phone Addiction.

What is the phone addiction? Do you have friends that would rather type away texting, emailing or web browsing instead of spending quality time with their friends  or family? Are you ignoring those around you to read this incredibly interesting post on daily annoyances on your phone totally unaware of what is going on around you? Is someone in the room texting another person in that same room?! Then you might have been affected by the disease known as Phone Addiction.

All joking aside…this plague that is taking over the world is extremely annoying! Last night, we were all out having a great dinner (I only touched my phone about a dozen times…) and we saw it…one of the worst cases I have ever seen. This guy had his iPhone mounted on his hip with the ear phones routed up under his shirt and into his ears…while he was out to dinner with his wife! My wife would have had me for dinner if I tried to pull some crap like that!

As we go through life and our daily lives, we are running into more of those people who can’t even put down the phone long enough to perform simple actions. The surgically enhanced to their hand cell phone user can no longer be put their ball and chain away for events like running on a treadmill, driving, riding a bike, etc. If you are on a treadmill talking, texting or emailing you don’t need to be on the treadmill in the first place! How on Earth can you be working hard enough to build up a sweat and texting at the same time?! You can’t! So put down the phone and actually work out, or get off and let someone else…who wants to actually burn some calories…have a turn.

These unique and plagued individuals can not put their cell phone down for even a 10 minute period. In today’s instant gratification/information society, this phone addicted individual cannot go 10 minutes without some kind of technological input. They are like Johnny 5 at the library…”need more input, need more input!”, constantly on the search for that next friend to text, email to send or web page to browse. Yes…this person is ignoring you and your interesting human conversation to interact with a media device. The interpersonal relationship is gone in lue of cyberspace. This person would rather interact with a electronic device instead of joining the real world for come engaging conversation.

As this plague continues to spread across the world, it makes me wonder…what is next? How bad could this disease actually get? In the near future, there will be texting dates where you don’t even have to actually talk to your date anymore. It will be nothing but a string of texts that provide the human interaction between you and your possible life mate. “It was so great…we stayed up all night long just texting.”

As you go through your day today, watch those around you…if you aren’t careful…it just might spread to you too! And once this virus gets a hold of your well-being, there is no stopping it…you too will have your cell phone surgically enhanced to your hand, never to be separated again. Welcome to the bug-eyed world of cell phone addiction.