A Sunday Mail social experiment on the streets of Queensland found that more than three-quarters of people appeared blind to those around them, mesmerised by their phones. <img alt="" src="/imagedata/2012/jun/smartphone.gif" style="width: 500px; height: 366px; " /> It described how three friends meeting for lunch in a busy food hall spend more time on their phones rather than talking to each other. Despite living many kilometres apart and looking forward to catching up, the three spent a large part of their lunch time glued to the phone. But social commentator David Chalke said perhaps our digital addiction was just conversation in a different form. &ldquo;Those people on their phones are probably communicating with someone. We have never been more involved in conversation. It is just a very different type of conversation,&rdquo; News.com.au quoted him as saying. Emeritus Professor Cindy Gallois from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at University of Queensland agreed. &ldquo;We are communicating with more people than we ever did before and if we are doing it sometimes with our fingers on a keyboard isn&rsquo;t that great too? &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t they say the art of writing was going to die?&rdquo; he noted.

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