If you are wondering what phone stacking is – well, read on to find out!  It is an effort by people to get people interacting more socially, particularly when they go out for drinks or to a restaurant as opposed to interacting with their telephones.  Essentially, if for example you go out with a group of 5 other people, you all put your phones together on the table in a stack on top of each other, face down.  The first person to pick up their phone pays the bill for the entire group.  

Apparently, this works wonders, and most of the time nobody picks up a phone and then you all divide your bill equally, but it certainly does motivate those, who wish to grab their phone all the time, to show just a little bit of self-control and resist that urge.  It is so easy to criticise the youth of today who are all developing hunchbacks, while they lean over iPads, iPhones and computers given to them by their parents, but in most cases it is the parents, who complain about too much screen time, that spend half their time, in front of the children, fiddling with their phones.  Of course, like me, they always try to justify that what they are busy with is actually an important message that has to be dealt with urgently.  The phone has become an all-encompassing device and these days, if you have an automated programmed car, you can even use it to summon your car to the front door, to turn on the air-conditioning before you get into it and not to mention using your phone for keyless driving, but you really don’t need to know the latest weather reports, currency rates and to check your e-mails at Friday night at 8pm when you are out with friends!