Our ritualistic behaviors with our smartphones

How our phones have hijacked our everyday life

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Recently a journalist told me about her strange attachment to her smartphone. “I can’t even brush my teeth,” she admitted, “without scrolling through my phone.”  I should have been surprised but it somehow felt quite ordinary. I can’t report how many people actually do this, so I turned to Reddit.

It turns out that her ce…