Feels like just another expression of a wider anti-social tendency that is spreading in Western societies in general. To tie it in with another symptom: Lots of

Feels like just another expression of a wider anti-social tendency that is spreading in Western societies in general. To tie it in with another symptom: Lots of people use their telephones as anything but telephones -- they seem to be willing to go to great lengths not to conduct any voice calls on them. This is just another facet of that phenomenon.