There have been addictive personalities throughout all generations.
Yes but new technologies bring out new psychological patterns, including new addictions.
The cell phone is just our newest example of Marshall McLuhan’s ‘medium’ being the ‘message’; which, according to Wiki, he defines as ‘the change of scale or pace or pattern that a new invention or innovation introduces into human affairs.’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message