> Also, IMO, phones aren't worse than what my parents' generation did to waste time which is watch TV.

I'd argue phones are much worse. The TV stayed in one spot in your house and you had to share it with others. You didn't put your TV in your pocket and take it to work with you then put in on your desk. You didn't take you TV with you on dates or social outings and check it when you where bored. You didn't fiddle with your television while you where driving, etc., etc., etc.

If you knew someone who watched a lot of television in the 1990's, they perhaps where in the presence of a television 8 hours a day. That's a lot. However, by contrast, if you had your phone with you 8 hours a day and locked in a drawer the rest of the day, that you put you among the lighter phone users among us.