Phone mania
Cellphone addiction is a silent monster (YOU, 6 September) and victims don’t acknowledge their problem.
Spending so much time on your phone kills fresh ideas.
Our obsession with social media weakens the bond we share with our loved ones because they find it difficult to reach out to us when we’re busy on the phone. You live with your family but you may as well have moved abroad.
If used responsibly, cellphones could be important in our lives but, in truth, many people today are slaves to these devices. Let’s try to win our lives back. DC MOLOKOMME, EMAIL
Phones should be put on silent when people are in company. They create a distance between people and scupper any stimulating discussions because of the constant checking or texting by the owner of the phone.
I know of a group of friends who, when they meet up, put all their phones together on the table and switch them off until the end of the social occasion.
I was sitting in a long queue at the doctor’s surgery recently and I looked around and thought, “How sad.” Years ago you would’ve been chatting away to the person next to you to make the time go faster, but these days I find I’m the only one without a phone in their hand.
What’s happened to chatting to the person next to you? ANGELA PETERS, EMAIL
There’s a time and a place for cellphones – the dinner table isn’t one of them! STRICT MOM, BRAAMFONTEIN