History Main / PhoneAholicTeenager

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Tim spends a lot of time on the phone with [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Stephanie]], especially when they're separated. While working with ComicBook/TheFlash Wally finds Tim hard to get ahold of without running to Tim's location because Tim's busy using the phone to talk to Steph.

* The 2023 ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' reboot gives us Julia, who is usually seen with a smartphone in hand, usually browsing through social media or keeping her followers updated on the competition. It's revealed in the first episode that she sneaked various phones past Chris and Chef, as phones are strictly prohibited from the competition. Justified, considering that she's a teenage girl.

This trope is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than cell phones]]; it goes back to [[TheGayNineties the proliferation of the home telephone]]. In the days before cell phones, this often involved a gag about there being only one phone in the house (or two phones on the same line where each extension could listen in on the other). This made it impossible for the poor parents to call while the BrattyTeenageDaughter tied things up. And in TheNineties, when the only Internet available to residential homes was 56K dial-up, someone was trying to go on the Internet while she tied up the phone yakking with her friends or playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend. For this reason, some parents would (if they could afford it) get her a dedicated phone line of her own and/or a dedicated phone line for the Internet modem. Even before the internet, going back to the days of BBS, many serious modem users, whether they had teenagers or not, often installed a second phone line for modem use for this reason, with sysops putting in several lines to handle multiple connections at once.

This trope is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than cell phones]]; it goes back to [[TheGayNineties the proliferation of the home telephone]]. In the days before cell phones, this often involved a gag about there being only one phone in the house (or two phones on the same line where each extension could listen in on the other). This made it impossible for the poor parents to call while the BrattyTeenageDaughter tied things up. And in TheNineties, when the only Internet available to residential homes was 56K dial-up, someone was trying to go on the Internet while she tied up the phone yakking with her friends or playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend. For this reason, some parents would (if they could afford it) get her a dedicated phone line of her own and/or a dedicated phone line for the Internet modem. Going back to the BBS, many serious modem users, whether they had teenagers or not, often installed a second phone line for modem use for this reason, with sysops putting in several lines to handle multiple connections at once.

* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}'': Tim spends a lot of time on the phone with [[ComicBook/Batgirl2011 Stephanie]], especially when they're separated. While working with ComicBook/TheFlash Wally finds Tim hard to get ahold of without running to Tim's location because Tim's busy using the phone to talk to Steph.

This trope is [[OlderThanTheyThink older than cell phones]]; it goes back to [[TheGayNineties the proliferation of the home telephone]]. In the days before cell phones, this often involved a gag about there being only one phone in the house (or two phones on the same line where each extension could listen in on the other). This made it impossible for the poor parents to call while the BrattyTeenageDaughter tied things up. And in TheNineties, when the only Internet available to residential homes was 56K dial-up, someone was trying to go on the Internet while she tied up the phone yakking with her friends or playing NoYouHangUpFirst with her boyfriend. For this reason, some parents would (if they could afford it) get her a dedicated phone line of her own and/or a dedicated phone line for the Internet modem.

** If Lori's not [[BigSisterBully being mean to her younger siblings]] (especially Lincoln), she's usually calling or texting her boyfriend Bobby.

* There have been teens addicted to cell phones on episodes of Creator/{{MTV}}'s ''Series/TrueLife''. in particular is the episode "I's Addicted to Texting", and one of the subjects followed was a woman who was married and had a baby.

* Salama of ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'' can't stop using Twitter on her phone and even talks in hashtags. (Not clear on whether she's a teenager, being a fairy and all)

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': He's not a teenager, but, in "Buddha Box", Cartman claims being left alone with his cellphone is the only remedy for anxiety, so the titular box enables him to isolate entirely from his surroundings with it. Pretty soon half the town uses it, not just kids.