So near yet so far, thanks to technology

Spring Festival, which falls on Saturday this year, is coming. In a few days, the festival will be celebrated with family reunions and parties.

Yet today the parties are different than they used to be. People are not together in the same home, but instead gather together in cyberspace.

It is another symptom of the so-called smartphone reliance syndrome. For many people the first thing they do after waking up in the morning is picking up their smartphone and the last thing they do before they go sleep is putting it down.