I guess my question is, addicted to what? A smartphone is a Swiss Army knife, it can do anything. Addicted to social media? I can see that. Addicted to real tim

I guess my question is, addicted to what? A smartphone is a Swiss Army knife, it can do anything. Addicted to social media? I can see that. Addicted to real time communication, like texting? Or watching videos? Reading? That’s like saying, I’m addicted to my car, so I used a horse and buggy for a month. What’s the maladaptive use case that we see with phones? Maybe it differs person-to-person. My time on my phone is spent checking work emails throughout the day, personal emails maybe once a day, making/receiving several phone calls, text messaging, and reading dozens of articles a day (and skimming hundreds more) ok topics I find personally interesting and relevant to my work. And passively consuming TikTok as I would consume television (as in, not in a way that would ordinarily be construed as social media). Each of those tasks could be done by other devices, and each task in isolation isn’t problematic. But put them all together and it’s a problem because the device is in my pocket?