News said the results of a sociological study about the "contagious" use of mobile phones. The school of public health and the Institute of social research of the University of Michigan, analyzed the behavior of people in public spaces around the same University: observations from three minutes to half an hour in which considered the time and frequency of use of the smartphone by individuals between 16 and 25 years, data taken during the month of April 2011.


The corollary of the study indicated that the use of the mobile phone is contagious, as yawning. Or as reading, as promoted in their commercials the Ministry of culture. Thing or not of so-called mirror neurons, in general terms, according to this study, 24% of those observed was using the phone at the same time making it (the) another individual, and 34% after observing a partner using it. In this regard, the researcher Daniel Kruger, author of the study, refers to the concept of inclusion, i.e. that people "relies" devices when people of his around seem to "exclude it" [embedded in their smartphones - or attentive to their conversations-], and, to avoid that "physical exclusion", the person takes refuge in virtual communication.

Anyone knows of what he speaks. It is not irony, I think. Often I think of phones as mechanisms of social defence in "hostile" environments [;)]. My mother used to take off the phone and make that you talked by him when some kind with pints hovered nearby, trying to be safe in that contraption [well, was not in the widget itself, but in the "appearance of conversation/relationship with someone" through him: I'm safe because I'm with someone, anyone know of me]. Or just look at that kid next door, while the girl who is with him greets a couple of acquaintances at the bar; they chat a while and he has lagged behind the bar, only in the stool.


Before, this kid, perhaps lit a cigarette and embruted mystically in the volutes, occupying time in nicotine and shrews; He would watch television, you would pick the newspaper, you Hungaria environment, even if only by entertain your eyes and hands.  Now, until she returns, it will take the phone from the Pocket and write something, you will navigate screen display [perhaps reading the newspaper, watching]; everything is by not looking around and feeling lonely. Excluded.