I regret to inform you that the smart-phone disease is a pandemic that infects any human being who is contact with the VIRUS. You have spoken a lot about Europe, Lat Am, and USA-Canada. Don´t you think Korean or Japanese girls are pretty much the same? For sure it won´t be a problem in Papua-New Guinea or Haiti for obvious reasons.
Spain is not an exception to this gay-phone, crap-berry fever, same with social networks. Here people say that if something is not in facebook it didn´t happen. When they´re posing for a picture they scream ¡foto tuenti! (being tuenti spanish facebook), and if you don´t have a smart phone with whatsapp it's like if you were a lepper.
Two of the weirdes situations I´ve witnessed related with social networks and smartphones were one being out for tapas with friends and a coupe of girls talking with each other not by voice but using their smartphones even though they were sitting next to each other... they spent half of the night typing hi hi hi, hi hi hi typing... the other an argument between a guy and his gf because of the pictures she uploaded to fb and some comments douchbags made. Men they were in their late twenties, I couldn´t believe that was happening.
You may say if everything else fails you can always go east. Wrong, when I was in Ucraine I found girls doing some office jobs in which they earned less than 400 $ with iphones and whose facebook are filled with them trying on clothes in shops, eating in restaurants, etc. I don´t know how they make the ends meet, after paying the rent, bills, iphone related stuff, transport, etc I understand why they´re all so slim and elegant, they've no money left for food to keep up with the western consumerism so they eat like little birds.
It´s said American girls sit in front of tv and eat chocolate ice-cream when they're sad, well, over here they just upload a sexy picture and wait for a legion of horny men tell them how pretty they are, how sexy they look and how much they´d like to take her to a desert island and repopulate it with their siblings. Facebook means food for their egos. There is a song by a local hiphop singer saying "Shut the fucking Facebook UP" Take a look at it:
In short, we are all fucked up.