Smartphone Fixation Latest Conversation Slayer

People have turned addictive to Smartphones that they seem to have forgotten the art of face-to-face conversation.

A Sunday Mail social experiment on the streets of Queensland found that more than three-quarters of people appeared blind to those around them, mesmerised by their phones.

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It described how three friends meeting for lunch in a busy food hall spend more time on their phones rather than talking to each other.

Despite living many kilometres apart and looking forward to catching up, the three spent a large part of their lunch time glued to the phone.

But social commentator David Chalke said perhaps our digital addiction was just conversation in a different form.

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"Those people on their phones are probably communicating with someone. We have never been more involved in conversation. It is just a very different type of conversation," News.com.au quoted him as saying.

Emeritus Professor Cindy Gallois from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at University of Queensland agreed.

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"We are communicating with more people than we ever did before and if we are doing it sometimes with our fingers on a keyboard isn't that great too?

"Didn't they say the art of writing was going to die?" he noted.

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Source-ANI