In some ways a phone is not a friend when it sits in your pocket ready to explode at any notice with someone you like or even "dislike"

It can go off at the worst possible moment and startle you.   People can put words into your phone that can alarm you as much as the alarm bell.   Cell phones and phones to some degree are fear devices.  Sometimes they are useful, but often times not.   To the extent that it is natural is really questionable.   I thought I would never say such a thing, but now I wonder.