Mobile phone addiction is our generation's smoking. We just don't realize it yet.

Mobile phones & social media, tobacco, opium, gin... it seems like every century or so there's an epidemic of "this readily available thing creates addictive stimulation" and a lot of people get lost to it until society wises up about that particular thing. And then a generation or three later, the pattern repeats.

Good point.

Pretty sure it's known. But, just like smoking, it's tolerated. Can't make the line go down.