You’re Addicted to Your Phone. Admitting That Is the First Step
You pick up your phone for a quick read, and suddenly an hour has disappeared. Sound familiar?
More than half of adults say they use their phones excessively, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted earlier this summer. Of the nearly 10,000 respondents, all 18 and older, 53% said they use smartphones too much, and 36% say they use their phones “about the right amount.”
The younger the people were, the more they felt they had overused phone use — 70% among those aged 18 to 29 and 64% among those aged 30 to 49. About 42% of the 18 to 29 group said they were on their phones “almost constantly.”
Digital marketing platform Semrush estimates that people worldwide average 4 hours and 37 minutes per dayon the phone — 5 hours, 16 minutes in the US — and check their phones an average of 58 times per...
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