Are you on smartphone overload yet?

Monica Yancey is a communications professor at San Jacinto College-North.

“I’ve been doing a lot of reading about smartphones, related to their impact on society. I’m considering doing actual research on it.”

Are you a heavy smartphone user?
“Not as much as I used to be. About a year ago I had a breakthrough moment when I realized that I don’t like how much I stare at my screen. It’s not just me. I’ll see my students in the hallway and try to say hi to them, but they have their heads down checking their email and just keep walking.

“I’ve been stepping back from it and using airplane mode quite a bit. Don’t get me wrong, there are definite advantages to using a smartphone. But I think too many of us these days are on overload.”

— Monica Yancey