I think it's much easier for an older person to not be obsessed with their phone. The young people today are growing up with them attached to their hands. Going to be real hard to get them to put the phones down. I'm kind of in the middle having grown up before them but now having lived a large part of my life with them, I have become fairly obsessed. It's hard to put it away, and not really due to social media, but work, news, pedometer, music player, banking, stocks... and I don't even game on my phone.
I brought this up in the concert thread, but maybe has a place here as well...
I went to a phone free concert a few weeks ago. It was the Original Misfits line up and they had a strict no phone policy and used a company called Yondr that put your phone in a locked pouch. You could access it at unlock stations, but essentially within the viewing area of the arena, no phones allowed. It worked mostly well, some people got them out, but either way, it was a really odd feeling walking around the arena without a phone. Felt a bit naked in a way, but it was interesting. I think people were much more approachable to talk to than with phones. (in fact, someone at the Slayer concert over the weekend approached me and said hey remember we were talking at the misfits concert!) A lot of comments on social media about the concert were actually really positive about the atmosphere of a no phone concert. Personally I'd rather my phone, but it was kind of nice to experience such an event.