Ann

“Smartphones grab our attention so powerfully that if they merely vibrate in our pockets for a tenth of a second, many of us will interrupt a face-to-face conversation, just in case the phone is bringing us an important update. We usually don't tell the other person to stop talking, we usually just pull our phone and spend some time pecking at it, leaving the other person to conclude, reasonably, that she is less important. When a conversation partner pulls out a phone, or when a phone is merely visible (not even your own phone), the quality and intimacy of a social interaction is reduced.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness