Once upon a time, I swore I’d never be
like these people I saw having dinner,
every one of them staring at their phones
instead of talking to each other
but now, what can I say,
but I’ve become just like them,
too busy to look up from my phone display
as I wait for another notification.
We’ve lost the ability to speak,
too immersed in our virtual worlds
where we chat in emoji,and swap pictures of cats
even as reality around us unfurls
to reveal nothing but emptiness ,
no more of the connections that used to matter
the way souls become real by being present
for we’re too lost in all the technological chatter.
Morrighan's Muse 
You are preaching to the choir. Its so hard in today’s world to put the phone down!! We have become a society that is always afraid of missing something, when, in reality, we could be missing something that is right in front of us. Great post!!!
I remember looking at my cousins disapprovingly about 10 years ago when I saw this happening at a reunion dinner and now, I catch myself doing it all the time!
I’ve noticed it to, especially since I got my first Iphone and fell immediately in love. It’s difficult to put it away, but I try to take at least one day a week phone free, mostly because I make my 16 year old do the same and he complains bitterly if I so much as glance at mine on Sunday! Haha
I go to bed with my iPhone more than with anyone else 😛