Gambling addiction seems to be fairly common or recognized. It does not seem that it would be too far of a logical step for the same to happen with a mobile de

Gambling addiction seems to be fairly common or recognized. It does not seem that it would be too far of a logical step for the same to happen with a mobile device. You can play on the thing for hours, in fact many games encourage you to play fairly constantly to advance in progress, and you get small but consistent rewards for doing so (which are ever harder to obtain). The analogy doesn't seem that far off to me. There are a certain subset of people who can easily throw themselves at things (games, hobbies, etc.) to the point where it negatively affects the rest of their life. I'm not so much a fan of calling all of them addictions, but I can see how some people feel that way.