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<\/a> Our love affair with smartphones has grown so deep, we now practically live inside <\/strong>them: <\/strong>A new study<\/a> by anthropologists from University College London (UCL) into smartphone use and impact focusing on older adults in nine countries found that more people now feel the same way about their devices as one conventionally does about their home, the Guardian<\/a> reports. The excessive use of smartphones, and the sense of familiarity engendered by easily chatting with your loved ones or checking your favourite social media feeds has more or less turned us into \u201chuman snails carrying our homes in our pockets,\u201d write the study\u2019s coauthors. The research proposes that smartphones can \u201cchallenge the house itself (and possibly also the workplace) in terms of the amount of time we dwell in it while awake.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study calls it the \u201ctransportal home\u201d:<\/strong> The smartphone now acts as a sort of portal that can instantly transport us inwards, where we can engage in familiar and comforting activities. The fact that this pattern of relationship between person and smartphone is so ubiquitous has been attributed in part to the fact that \u201cthe world has grown more restless, with movement resulting from migration, work patterns, better transport, and multiple other factors\u201d becoming commonplace. The idea of home as a single location now seems outdated, with most people using their smartphone as the device with which to connect with distantly located people who make up their emotional sense of home.<\/p>\n

But this \u201calways on, always on you\u201d connectivity is eroding our ability to have deeper, more spontaneous conversations with others<\/strong>: Though smartphones once held the promise of better connectivity, our devices are making us way less attentive to the people closest to us. Individuals in the same room are worlds apart while using their smartphones. This flagrant rupture of conventional etiquette has been altering the very divide between what\u2019s public and private \u2014 a phenomenon that\u2019s causing what researchers call the \"death of proximity,\" of face-to-face interaction, among all age groups.<\/p>\n

Is this because we\u2019re increasingly phubbing? <\/strong>Let's face it \u2014 chances are you have been phubbed (phone-snubbed) or were a phubber at least once in your life. Phubbing<\/a> \u2014 an act that has proven<\/a> to help turn you into a social pariah \u2014 manifests itself in abruptly pulling out your cell phone at the dinner table or in the middle of a conversation, bringing about the frustration and offence termed the \u201cdeath of proximity\u201d by the study. \u201cWe\u2019re learning to live with the jeopardy that even when we\u2019re physically together, we can be socially, emotionally or professionally alone,\u201d Daniel Miller, who led the study, tells the Guardian.<\/p>\n

Chat apps have been leading the shift: <\/strong>The rules of social interaction have been redrawn in the age of chat apps such as WhatsApp<\/a>, Line<\/a> and WeChat<\/a>, according to the study which describes these mobile messaging services as the \u201cheart of the smartphone.\u201d Such tools have made it much easier to stay in touch over long distances, while being easy to use.<\/p>\n

The spike in the use of online messaging was partially due to covid<\/strong>, as populations under lockdown across different parts of the world tried to stay connected<\/a>. April 2020 survey<\/a> data from UK-based consulting firm Kantar found that Facebook-owned WhatsApp saw the instant messaging market\u2019s greatest gains in usage \u2014 an estimated 40% increase \u2014 since the pandemic began.<\/p>\n

Remember, smartphones may be a breeding ground for some real life conflict:<\/strong> These little glass and metal devices can arguably instigate a number of work and social problems as smartphones further encroach upon our personal lives. Business communication platforms, including Slack<\/a>, Microsoft Teams<\/a> and Flock<\/a>, along with the various social media apps that have been hitting global markets at a rapid pace, are likely to \u201creduce the prior experience of home as a refuge. Employees may now be expected to remain in contact with their work, for instance, even after leaving the workplace,\u201d UCL\u2019s study shows. And smartphones are not to blame, says Miller, there are both good and bad aspects of having that technology in our lives. However, the most critical aspect is how we, as humans, choose to use them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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