Two Quick Questions: Are You Addicted to your Cellphone? Are Your Kids Addicted?

Are you addicted your smartphone?  Are you texting/messaging or checking emails all the time? Is it with you all the time?

Some interesting cell-phone statistics:

According to Mobile Mindset Study conducted by security app Lookout:

• 58% of U.S. smartphone owners check their phones at least every hour - and a large share check their phones while in bed or in the bathroom ;
•  63% of women and 73% of men ages 18-34 say they don't go an hour without checking their phones (Mobile Mindset Study conducted by security app Lookout);
• 94% of those surveyed were concerned about losing their smartphones, 73% said they'd panic, and 38% are most concerned about the cost and hassle of replacing a lost phone.

From: https://www.lookout.com/resources/reports/mobile-mindset

From: https://www.lookout.com/resources/reports/mobile-mindset

 

From: https://www.lookout.com/resources/reports/mobile-mindset

From: https://www.lookout.com/resources/reports/mobile-mindset

According to a Time magazine survey:

• 84 percent of respondents said that they could not go a single day without their cellphones.
• 50 percent of Americans sleep with their phone next to them like a teddy bear or a spouse, a number that includes more than 80 percent of persons18-24 years old.
• 20 percent of respondents check their phone every 10 minutes.
• 24 percent said they had used text messages to set up a rendezvous with someone they were having an affair with, a number that includes 56 percent of Chinese respondents. 

And just in case you want to see more, here's another infographic, "Unplugged: A Smartphone Detox" which found that 66% of people surveyed said they couldn't last one day without their smartphones:

From: http://dailyinfographic.com/

How addicted are you? The answer may in part be a generational one. That said, there are a lot of concerns and issues:

• Driving and texting/talking/checking
• Finding time to read and interact more socially with others
• Finding "life" away from the smartphone

 These issues and questions are (at least for now) out of the scope of this post so please help continue this discussion by leaving your thoughts and questions in the comments below.

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