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Fortune
Beth Greenfield

REVEALED: Smartphone addiction do you have a problem | Vintage Vibes

Woman looking anxiously at her phone while sitting in front of her laptop (Credit: Getty Images)

Are you reading this on your smartphone in between texting your group chat, scanning headlines, responding to your boss on Slack, doing Wordle, and checking the status of your Instagram post to ease your worry about how it’s being received—all before tucking the phone into your pocket only to reflexively tap it to make sure it’s still there? 

You’re certainly not alone. But you also may have a problematic relationship with your phone—something that would be understandable, say experts.

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