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“Nomophobia” ……..And breakfast in Kuwait

“Nomophobia” ……..And breakfast in Kuwait   Picture a world sans YouTube, WhatsApp, Viber, Facebook, emails, video games, Dropbox, Yahoo, Google, SMS, or a camera at your fingertips.   Sacrilegious in the present context. The universe would presumably be a gloomy spectre. Un-contactable, with absolutely no one to probably chatter, share your memories or just simply be in digital dialogue. The mere thought of being lonely is a distressing concept to many and an unthinkable situation in the modern world of constant information overloading and transmission.   Eighty percent of the world population owns a mobile phone and more than 60 percent of the population claims to suffer from 'nomophobia' - the fear of being without a mobile phone. Some 54 percent of people worry about being 'out of mobile phone contact’ and 17 percent of women suffer from 'nomophobia' than men. A quarter of a people even consult their phones during a dinner date and most tend to take it ev...