More than 500,000 apps are out there to help people conduct business, lose weight or play games. There's even an app that will help us with our spiritual formation.
Want to edit your digital photographs? Watch the BBC? Keep track of your running? Play the game Trainyard Express? Diagnose an illness? Pretend to drink a beer?
All you need is an app.
An application, that is: a specialized program that you download to your smartphone or other mobile device. Apps run the gamut from games to business programs, allowing you to play Angry Birds or keep your appointments. One even encourages you to attack your enemies through a digital voodoo doll called iVoodoo.
There's an app for almost anything. More than 500,000 of them, in fact.
Such variety explains why so many people are staring at their phones these days, instead of looking at other human beings. In response to this, a pithy message is making the rounds: "Putting your phone away and paying attention to those talking to you? There's an app for that. It's called 'RESPECT.'”
But even if smartphones are causing problems, we should not dismiss them. According to The Atlantic magazine (June 2012),...
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