I have come up with a new term know as the "Smartphone Syndrome".
What is it you ask?
Well it's the phase of transition from a phone which has less functionality to a phone which has the power to give you everything in the palm of your hand like an iPhone or a Nexus. So I recently had one of my friends buying an iPhone after years of struggle and toil of using a Blackberry (which honestly, does not have the same functionality) and noticed a few changes in their behaviour. Even though I would not like to point that out to them as we live in a world of "free choice" and "free will", I thought why not stir this conversation at Hubski to get everybody's view. I have noticed that the amount of time they spent talking to me or messaging me has gone down quite a lot and also I have noticed a change in the way they perceive things. It is the same social anxiety that I faced 2 years back when I switched to an iPhone from a Blackberry but I can say that I successfully got over it. By social anxiety I mean, checking facebook from top of the stories to the last one you saw, liking all the posts, Instagram is not spared and double tapped 400 times a day (This is all my experience and I can see a similar kind pattern there as well)
Well I can explain it further once I get to know if this thing is actually experienced by anybody else or anybody they know.
The fact is that this Smartphone Syndrome is like a bubble, it keeps you in a very happy place where you know everything about everyone and they "like" you back but as soon as the bubble bursts, it is very very difficult to deal with it, that I can say by experience. So not to let my friend face the same fate/truth, I would want to spare them the pain of that bubble bursting like I did.
Let me know your views on this.