We check our phones 221 times a day—an average of every 4.3 minutes—according to a UK study. This number actually may be too low, since people tend to underestimate their own mobile usage. In a 2015 Gallup survey, 61 percent of people said they checked their phones less frequently than others they knew. Our transformation into device people has happened with unprecedented suddenness.
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What does it mean to shift overnight from a society in which people walk down the street looking around to one in which people walk down the street looking at machines? We wouldn’t be always clutching smartphones if we didn’t believe they made us safer, more productive, less bored, and were useful in all of the ways that a computer in your pocket can be useful. At the same time, smartphone owners describe feeling “frustrated” and “distracted.” In a 2015 Pew survey…[n]early half of eighteen-to-twenty-nine-year-olds said they used their phones to “avoid others around you.” — Jacob Weisberg, NY Books
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This number goes up exponentially once one is foolish enough to download Neko Atsume. Not that I’m speaking from personal experience. Just repeating what I’ve heard. From someone else. Not me
Yes, but who’s courageous enough to use their gadget to admit it??