My dearest son. Pull up your damn pants! Oh and stop downloading crap onto my iPhone.

Smartphones are shifting our perceptions of time and place, of community and relationships. The only time is now. The only place is here. 

Indeed, smartphones are disrupting existing means of information and entertainment, media, news, distribution of money, content and knowledge. They are de-constructing barriers to global markets, access to capital, building new business models and launching new forms of commerce, shopping, learning and experience.

At once, we are hyperglobal and hyperlocal, fully, effortlessly traversing physical space and cyberspace. Thanks to the smartphone.

Yet my kid wont stop downloading apps on my iPhone! Which is really starting to piss me off.

A new survey from Nielsen suggests this is so for many parents:

Even though mobile phones tend to be thought of as personal, it is not unheard of to have other people download apps onto your phone. In fact, 13 percent of the U.S. app downloaders recently surveyed by The Nielsen Company indicated that their spouse or partner had downloaded apps onto their phone, while eight percent indicated their children had installed apps on their phone.

A closer look at the responses of those whose children had downloaded apps onto their (the parent’s) phone, reveals that the average age at which their youngest child started downloading apps was nine. When asked what percentage of the apps on their phone were downloaded by their children, these parents reported that 30 percent of the apps on their phones were installed by their kids.