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SMARTphones are turning us into bad dates.

Just the other day I was reminiscing with a friend about how plans used to be made in advance by landline telephone and stuck to. You had to be on time and you had to stick to the plan. Not turning up was not an option. The New York Times had a piece about this earlier this week, about how texting and instant messaging is turning us into "ill-mannered flakes".

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