Everyone's digital friend - Telegraph A very funny video has been watched more than 15 million times on YouTube. I Forgot My Phone opens with a relaxed morning scene of a woman cuddled up in bed with her boyfriend. When the camera zooms out, he is seen checking his mobile. So it goes on: the only contact during drinks with the girls is when one shows another something amusing on her phone; a birthday cake is seen only through the viewfinder of the mobile camera; a child sits on a swing, only to lower her gaze to her mobile. As we report today, academics have found that mobiles, far from connecting people, break up their social lives, diverting attention to themselves like an unopened telegram. Who's surprised? The mistake was to think that mobiles were for communication, not in themselves a kind of imaginary friend. Oh, and by the way, you can get that YouTube video on your mobile.