These are 6 rules to manage computer-mediated-communication with smartphone addicts who use their phone sub-consciously more than 7 hours a day (that's when you're an addict by definition):
(1) act extremely extraverted
(2) show low level of involvement and no emotional involvement at all/ short repetitive sentences that are easy to understand and that do not disclose anything personal, what leads to point no. 3
(3) keep self-disclosure low
(4) act dominant and not "warm", use humor rarely
(5) keep conversation flow dynamic but give your responses a touch of "value" to the other party
(6) use linguistic cues to induce personality into your statement such as # or * or ?!
TEXTING alters conversations in four major ways:
1. Procrastination of reply (not real-time) - People can prepare their answers, it's less intuitive, more strategic
2. Avoidance of confrontation - Confrontation with issues, decision making and subsequent conflict resolution doesn't work through the medium because of limitations in dept and breath of the discussion
3. Emotions (positive and negative) are often perceived as desperate and unnatural
4. The lack of non-verbal cues such as facial expression makes the conversation less rich and puts more emphasis on linguistic cues.
