An Anthropological Survey of Digital Media Habits in English-Speaking Nations

It seems to me that these days, everyone is on their phones. The phone is the thing that everyone is on these days. Ladies and gentlemen, everyone’s on their phones. An intelligent person might be studying the classics or appreciating the boundless beauty of the universe, but instead, everyone is on their phones. Everyone’s on their phones, and that’s a fact jack. Looking around the bus it seems that everyone is on their phones. Did you hear the one about everyone being on their phones? If you asked me what everyone was doing at the current date and time, I’d tell you they were on their phones. If we were to assign the value of “phone” to X and the value of everything to “Y”, it would be accurate to say that “Xs is on their Ys”, or more directly, everyone is on their phones. It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that everyone is on their phones. Oh, is that a phone you’re on? It figures, everyone is on them. I’ll never forget the day I lifted my beautiful baby boy above my head, and he looked down at me and said “Everyone’s on their phones”. Why, I didn’t get to be a big city lawyer with two-hundred cases under my belt without learning a thing or two about everyone being on their phones. “And lo, the son of the Lord did proclaim to his flock that everyone is on their phones”- Luke 12:20. You might wonder where everyone is these days. What are they doing with their time? Where does their interest lie? What drives them? What inspires them? Why, it’s none other than being on their phones. Buddy, you best believe everyone is on their phones. For one night only, everyone’s on their phones. If you’re not on your phone then you’re probably not even everybody. The phone; it’s the happening spot that everybody’s on. When questioned, the head of the Metropolitan Police had this statement to make: “Everyone’s on their phones”. What a piece of work is man, how on his phone he is. If you were to ask me what the device is that everyone is on these days, I’d point out to you that it’s that glowing edutainment rectangle we call the phone. Sometimes, people do be on their phones. You expected everyone not to be on their phones? Fat chance. It’s the bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded, and everybody is on their phones. Look at my face, my pose, the way I carry myself, the way I dress myself. I am a man of class, of prestige, of repute, but everyone else? Everyone else is on their phones. The results are in, and everyone is on their phones. Those four sweet words she longs to hear: “Everyone’s on their phones”. It says here that everyone’s on their phones. Good evening, I’m Asad Ahmed. Our top story tonight: everyone is on their phones. Listen bucko, if you wanna make it in this town, there’s something you have to understand: Everyone is on their phones. What are people doing on there? Browsing social media? Posting photos? Playing games? There’s not a single atom of me that cares, the point is that everyone is on their phones. Are you reading this on your phone right now? Only further proof that everyone is on their phones. Don’t you threaten me with everyone being on their phones. The historians of the future will say of this era, that everyone was on their phones. Word on the street is that everyone is on their phone. If you’re keeping up, you’ll have gathered that everyone is on their phone. The elephant in the room is that everyone’s on their phones. [In Michael Stipe voice] “Everyone’s on their phones”. If you were to write a book about what people these days are doing, it would be called “Everyone is on their phones”. What’s everyone on? Why, their phone, of course. On a good night, if the wind is blowing in the right direction and you listen very closely, you can hear that everyone is on their phones. 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