Mummy! They've taken my mobile!

Tonight on Channel 4 we have the pleasure of watching a family of seven - Steve, Joanne and their five children - deprived of their mobile phones for two weeks. How will they survive? In fact, will they survive at all? Who on earth will they talk to? What will they do on the train ("Hiiiii, I'm-on-the-traaaaiinnn"!)? Will they speak to each other? In fact, as Channel 4 asks, will face-to-face communication bring the family closer? Perhaps some of them will crack up and call in at the doctor's surgery....

Increasingly, peoples' relationship with their mobiles - the reliance on the 'what do I do now' call - resembles the relationship between some individuals and their therapists. Decision paralysis until you've talked to that significant other.

Which makes me wonder, are there any psychoanalysts offering services exclusively by mobile phone yet? It has to happen....

I won't even being the rant about those people with mobile phone headsets who forget they're sitting in a public place.

8pm Friday Can You Live Without...Your Mobile? Channel 4