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<div>From CNN.com</div><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"></p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">1. Drunk -tweeting, -texting, -Instagramming, etc.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Long gone are the days when the only witnesses to your inebriated ramblings were other bar patrons who also saw you stumble from your bar stool to the ground. Whether you're able to keep it together with spelling and syntax (in which case, you've just got the world going, "Wait, she wants to do WHAT to Paul Ryan?!"), or your typing skills erode quickly,alcohol and mobile devices don't mix.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">2. Fooling around on your phone whenever you have a spare moment.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">As writer Austin Kleon writes in his alarmingly cute book,"Steal Like an Artist,"we need unstructured time for creativity to foster, down time in which we mess around and let our disconnected thoughts gel into cool ideas.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">If you turn every spare moment (a red light, a line at the salad station, a ride in the elevator) into anexcuse to check your Cinemagram feed, you just won't have those artistic a ha! moments. (And no, "Draw Something" doesn't count.)</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">3. Passive-aggressively whining for the whole world to see.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Look, we all have our personal stock of First World Problems, frustrated complaints with the minor injustices committed by a cruel, uncaring world. That's been true since the dawn of time. Now we just have myriad means of expressing them.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph15" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Nobody cares about yourthinly veiled railings against your ex or roommate or employer, OK? Unless you'vescribbled it on a notepad, in which case you should share it with the world. So that we can laugh at you.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph16" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">4. Being really, really scared to actually use the phone.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph17" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Phones and tablets have made it oh so easy to communicate without using our voiceboxes. This is bad for relationships foroh so many reasons. Anais Nin would just hate it. Hit "dial" and enjoy the time-honored pas de deux of two humans, you know, talking.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph18" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">5. Missing your favorite band's concert because you're so busy taking crappy photos, letting your phone ring and fiddling with your phone during the set.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph19" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Your hard-of-hearing, reformed punk-rock uncle was right: Concerts really WERE better back in the day, not necessarily because music really meant something, man, but because the audience actually paid attention and sang along and danced instead of holding their phones in the air and spending 30-plus seconds trying to find the shutter button onthe front of the screen.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph20" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Your punkle would be so disappointed if he still made it out to shows today.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph21" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">6. Texting salacious pictures.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph22" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">The ritual sharing of NC-17 photos used to be a complicated analog affair involving Polaroids and furtive looks. Nowadays, people just droptrou, snap and send. Analyze THAT, Anais Nin.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph23" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">7. Turning your friends into enemies with videos of them.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph24" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Camcorders have become tiny and discreet and as user-friendly as checking your e-mail. This is potentially bad news for those people you hang out with, as you hold in your hands a recording device that canhumiliate them forever.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph25" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Set ground rules and roll the camera judiciously, lest you wind up publicly shaming a friend for her foul mouth, caught-on-film fart or unpopular political opinions.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph26" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">8. Letting your seething anger leach out into the world at large.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph27" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Humans have always done stupid things when they're emotionally riled up. Now, those tantrums and rages and outbursts are shared and cached forthe world to see. Take a deep breath and put down the smartphone.</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph28" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">9. Texting while walking.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph29" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Rarely does this go well. Whatever's so urgent can probably wait a few minutes. Or you can, you know, actually call the person (see No. 4).</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph30" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px"><strong style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px">10. Using your phone in the bathroom.[/b]</p><p class="cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph31" style="padding: 0px 24px 19px 186px; margin: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: arial; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19px">Don't. Just don't.</p>
