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> The ability for addiction seems to indicate, to me at least, that the smartphone might be different. Why is it different? Don't you remember folks sitting in front of TVs the whole day or night about 20 years back?
And back in the day TV was mostly passive. smartphone lets you choose what and when you want to do things. If one looks at mental illness evolution, one might guess how different generations are across time; not necessarily caused by smartphones but surely and indicator of a generation's mental health.
> smartphone lets you choose
That's not really the case when apps are designed to make you come back to them the whole time like Facebook and Twitter.