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@KOS-MOS I don't think it's so much people trying to show off their mobile devices, but rather as you say they're obsessed. I like to call it being "wired in" - whether it's checking their social media, searching/playing apps, texting, etc. It's become part of the Gen Y culture and catching on with the older one's as well. As someone who has worked at non 12 step drug rehabs habitual behaviors like being glued to your mobile device has more to do with obsessiveness than addiction. Medically speaking addiction, which is a chemical dependency, is completely different, though it's safe to say the author meant it in the figurative sense.
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