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看到这标题，你可能不想再看下去。跟智能手机smartphone分手？今时今日很多人都会觉得是没有可能。
Smartphone叫smartphone，因为它们实在很smart，多种用途集于一身，甚至可以说没有什么它是做不到的。一机傍身，就没有忧愁，但问题是smartphone那么重要，没有它在身边，我们岂不是什么也做不到？
Smartphone不知不觉间，已变成生活不可缺少的部分，我们和smartphone的关系，甚至可以形容为难舍难离，这有问题吗？
分心减专注
Eric Andrew-Gee在”Your smartphone is making you stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. So why can’t you put it down!?”一文中，就指出使用smartphone带来的的种种严重问题，这不是他自说自话，而是很多最新研究的结论。最大问题是smartphone令我们分心，减低专注力——“our ability to focus”。
Consider the effect smartphones have on our ability to focus. In 2015, Microsoft Canada published a report indicating that the average human attention span（持续时间段）had shrunk from 12 to eight seconds between 2000 and 2013. The finding was widely reported at the time and elicited some shock – for about eight seconds.
Focus用作动词解pay particular attention to，to concentrate on，集中、侧重做某事；例如︰We should focus our study on the materials that will be covered in the examination.（我们应该集中温习考试范围内的课文。）
Elicit解引出，跟illicit串法和读音相近，但意思就全无关系。Illicit解违法的、违禁的、不正当的，to carry on an illicit relationship解维持一段不正当的关系；例如︰The shop has been carrying on an illicit trade of smuggled cigarettes.（那商店售卖私烟。）
不断使用smartphone其中一个副作用是令我们的专注力愈来愈低。Attention span是可以专注的时间，2000与2013年间，由12秒下降至8秒。
A recent study of Chinese middle schoolers（中学生）found something similar. Among more than 7,000 students, mobile phone ownership was found to be “significantly associated” with levels of inattention seen in people with attention-deficit disorder（注意力缺乏症、多动症）.
就算自控地使用，smartphone也会影响使用者的脑力：
Even people who are disciplined（有纪律的）about their smartphone use feel the effect. The devices exert such a magnetic pull on our minds that just the effort of resisting the temptation（诱惑）to look at them seems to take a toll on our mental performance.
损亲子关系
同样受损害的是亲子关系︰
Being connected（连系）to everyone all the time makes us less attentive to the people we care about most. Nowhere is the alienating（使疏远）power of smartphones more troubling（令人困扰）than in the relationship between parents and children. Put simply, smartphones are making mothers and fathers pay less attention to their kids and it could be causing emotional harm.
Catherine Price的How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life，教你如何与smartphone建立健康的关系。
