[NorthstarMom]

Hard to say, but I’ve become addicted. I don’t use it away from home if I’m with other people, though. Yet. I use it mostly to go on FreeRepublic. Maybe that’s the actual addiction?

[Night Hides Not]

Now that I have an iPhone 6+, I’m guilty of Freeping in Public.

[Redcitizen]

I’m not addicted to FreeRepublic. I can quit at anytime. ;)

[driftless2]

I guess what I'm getting at is, like the mother and her two daughters, no human communication is going on when three people are messing with their phones. My wife has a smart phone, but when we go out to eat, she puts it away. She isn't one to play with it much anyway.

One of the uses of her smart phone that I like is when there's a song on the radio and we don't know the name of the band or the singer, she can use her phone to find out by using an app on the phone that identifies the recording. I am impressed by that.