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Treating it as "just having a cell phone app" is quite the trivialization of how much time and emotional investment could go into it. Sort of like calling someone who plays video games 10 hours a day "just on the computer like everyone else at work." There are obviously many people in the modern world that are so engrossed in screens like Youtube, Instagram, and video games, that it's coming at the expense of their in person interaction and relationships.

Personally, I agree with GP, that it's quite a terrible travesty that people are being sucked into being controlled by a machine and forgoing the eternal human condition of building a relationship with real human people in person like we always have.