Learn English – How to call someone addicted to mobile appliances

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Nowadays we can see many people using their mobile phone all day long. They are always busy with it and don’t care about the things going around them, whether for social networking like Facebook and Twitter and such, or for messengers like BBM and Whatsapp and the like.

I would really like to know what the one word for this kind of person is.

In a nutshell: a mobile-appliance addicted person.

Best Answer

There's a CNN article about “smartphone zombies” that implies zombie is appropriate (perhaps in its sense “A person, usually undead, animated by unnatural forces ..., with no soul or will of his/her own”). The article also mentions Stephen King's novel, Cell:

... the protagonist, Clayton Riddell, doesn't turn into a zombie because he doesn't own a cell phone. The story is about an event called "The Pulse" that turns cell phone users into vicious, mindless beings.

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