>[They] reached for their phone as soon as they woke up in the morning (they had to—all of them used it as their alarm clock).
I stopped using my phone as an alarm clock a couple years ago for this reason. Making the change has helped me pop out of bed sooner and get more done.
I've flirted with this idea, but more to a sun-simulated alarm to better circumvent my inherent non-morning-person-ness.
That's a nice idea, definitely stealing that. Making myself get out of bed to feed my internet addiction would work wonders.
As a mobile developer, I'm guiltily reassured by articles like this
When Betteridge's law applies, you can almost be certain that the article is trash
Questions to which the answer is "no".
Actually, all of my friends are dead so the title is correct. Me too actually, so yea, we're all destroyed.
The real question in my mind is if this is just one generation destroyed or spans multiple generations because Smartphones have become an addiction for even my parents.