To put it simply, we've become addicted to our smartphones. Anything you do for about 3 weeks beings to rewire your brain. I gave up my smartphone for about 2 months after I was fed up with Google and their making Android more and more closed source as well as increasingly close workings with the DoD and gov. Now I use a smartphone that mainly just gets online. People text me, I get to them when I get to them. I don't use Facebook or social networking because it's mostly a waste of time and dehumanizes actually interacting with your friends and family. Best part? I don't miss a single app after having using Android since the 1st day it came out w/ the G1 until mid this year. Even better actually, I find myself reading books more instead of spending most of my freetime on reddit, social networking, messing with apps, the smartphone itself, etc.