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"1. You can&amp;#039;t go anywhere or do anything without your phone out where you can see it. Not the gym, not dinner, not a religious service. Your phone always has to be either in your pocket pressing up against you where you can feel it vibrate or face-up on the dinner table, treadmill dashboard, or, if you&amp;#039;re in aerobics class, the floor right by your feet where you can see it light up. If not: ANXIETY. 2. You don&amp;#039;t go anywhere without a spare charger. Because your phone always seems to hit 30 percent charge right when you need it most. Like when you&amp;#039;re about to get to the Beyonc\u00E9 concert and know you will need to Instagram everything. 3. You are always looking for a place to plug in. &amp;quot;Excuse me, pastor? This sermon is really interesting and all (love what you&amp;#039;re doing with the black robes), but could you step aside for a second? There&amp;#039;s an outlet right behind you. OK. Thanks.&amp;quot; 4. You feel no shame plugging your phone into random outlets wherever you are. At restaurants, airports, clothing stores, movie theaters. Every outlet is fair game for your phone charger, far as you see it. 5. You know all the tricks for preserving your last bit of battery. When it gets to 35 percent, your heart starts beating faster, your head starts buzzing and you immediately go into preservation mode, trying to turn off everything useless (Bye, Candy Crush!) and turn the brightness down to a level that is only appropriate for viewing in a mine shaft. You will do anything to keep this phone alive. Anything. 6. You either have one of those cases that charges your phone while it&amp;#039;s not plugged in or a charger that doesn&amp;#039;t have to be plugged in. Your friends are constantly making fun of you for your &amp;quot;obese phone case&amp;quot; or wondering, &amp;quot;What&amp;#039;s that vibrator your phone&amp;#039;s plugged into?&amp;quot; 7. When you don&amp;#039;t have reception, epic boredom set in. How did people live before cell phones? No wonder life expectancy was so much shorter before. People probably died of boredom. 8. You have at least one phone-related injury. Either it fell on your face while you were typing in bed or you walked into a pole while texting &amp;quot;lol, BRT&amp;quot; while walking to meet a friend. Either way, you&amp;#039;ve got at least one war story and are not afraid to share it with others. 9. Your partner accuses you of not hearing what they&amp;#039;re saying when you&amp;#039;re on your phone. It&amp;#039;s called multitasking and you are so good at it. Also, you haven&amp;#039;t heard a word he&amp;#039;s said in years. He&amp;#039;ll text you if it&amp;#039;s important. 10. You photograph everything. No, EVERYTHING. Your lunch, the trees, that one car that&amp;#039;s parked really weirdly. Someday you are going to look at all of these photos and sigh at the memories. Oh my god, look at that cute bird. It&amp;#039;s flying! Better get my phone out! 11. You will go back home if you forget your phone. Haha, forget.  12. You fall asleep with your phone in your hand. It&amp;#039;s your only true friend.  13. A midnight bathroom run is never just about the bathroom. You are not going to wake up and not look at your email, Insta, Twitter follower count, and texts.  14. Your friends shouldn&amp;#039;t even bother to send you links. Your email is just a collection of &amp;quot;seen it already.&amp;quot; Get on my level, friends! What are you doing with your lives? 15. You have a landline at your office, but you can&amp;#039;t fathom why anyone would dare try to communicate with you on it. They may as well chisel into a stone tablet and send the message via carrier pigeon. 16. You get annoyed when people actually use your phone to call you. Hello, have you heard of texting? I&amp;#039;m Facebooking here. RUDE! 17. You pretty much only go to concerts so you can social media the shit out of them. You can&amp;#039;t help Instagraming, Facebooking, and Vining the entire thing. It&amp;#039;s not really about being there and enjoying it, it&amp;#039;s about everyone knowing you were there and having the most fun ever. 18. You can&amp;#039;t sit through a movie without looking at your phone. Even if it&amp;#039;s only 90 minutes long, all you want to do is text your friends (sitting next to you, obvs) about where you&amp;#039;ll go for wine after this. Follow Mark on Twitter. Photo Credit: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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