Introduction Cell phones are making us obtuse and lonely! This observation might sound usurious, but emerging research supports these unsettling claims. In a study conducted in 2009, Gorlick notes that media “multitasking or ‘high-tech juggling’ between web browsing, emailing, and texting, for example, impairs cognitive control and is counterproductive” (par. 6). When Martin Cooper invented the cell phone in 1973, most probably he meant well for the society; unfortunately, his invention brought unintended consequences. The social disruption People have become busy doing nothing – busy surfing the Internet for irrelevant issues instead of engaging in constructive talks and activities. Social skills are dying at an unparalleled rate because people have become escapists. The conventional get-togethers and evening talks have slowly vanished and whenever people meet face-to-face, it becomes a challenge to hold a thirty-minute conversation (Panaccione par. 5). After the routine pleasantries, cell phones take the center stage as everyone dishes out his/hers. This way, people have become escapists, with cellphones presenting a perfect escape route, an escape route from reality, the reality that human being are social beings and they need to interact in real time. Unfortunately, instead of accepting the fact that we are becoming as dumb as a box of rocks, we justify our escapist behavior by boasting of how many followers we have over the social media platforms, which apparently we can access anytime from anywhere via our cellphones. The social fabric is disintegrating and very soon, it will be in tatters. Interpersonal communication skills are irreplaceable for any functional society. It is sad, a very sad era, where people are connected, but lonely. As aforementioned, there is sufficient research to support the unconscionable claim that we are becoming a dumb society courtesy of cellphones. A study conducted in 2008 showed that frequent “cellphone users would be less likely to talk to strangers in public settings due the ‘tele-cocooning effect’ or the tendency of cell phones to reduce interpersonal interactions” (Subrahmanyam and Greenfield 120). Apparently, cellphones have become people’s closest friends, but friends are meant to be real, to offer a shoulder to cry one, to offer solutions, and stand by you at times of trouble. This assertion underscores how people have become eternally disconnected from the basics of a social wellbeing. At one time Jose Ortega said, “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are” (Wretlind par. 5) and from this assertion, one can easily conclude that we have become one sick generation – sick from an emerging malady, called ‘social disjunction’. Apparently, “more than 203 million Americans own a cell phone1 and as many as 30% say they cannot live without it… 80% of college students have ‘mobile phone dependency syndrome’ and among them 48% are serious cases that compulsively check and touch their phone every several minutes” (Myers 13). The available evidence is sufficient to conclude that the society is losing its social grounding and very soon, we might have a bunch of introverts, not by birth, but by making. Cellphone is one of the greatest inventions of our times, but its effects are devastating, hence the need to come up with mitigation measures in the quest to save humanity from becoming zombies by default. I have watched the scenario of social disconnectedness unravel with chills running down my spi