By: iPadfanzz staff on February 8, 2013
Smartphone have become a global addiction and most of us would agree that checking your smartphone have become compulsive. You use it in the morning, even while going to the office, walking giving presentations, coming back to home, before going to sleep.
Such is the addiction that we tap the screen absent mindedly – checking the mail, social media accounts like Facebook, Twitter, mobile apps, multimedia consumption, for snapping photos, for instant messaging. Another finding suggest that it is hard to resist a new text message than a nicotine fix.
In a study of 1,600 managers and professionals, Leslie Perlow, PhD, the Konosuke Matsushita professor of leadership at the Harvard Business School, found that:
70% said they check their smartphone within an hour of getting up.
56% check their phone within an hour of going to sleep.
48% check over the weekend, including on Friday and Saturday nights.
51% check continuously during vacation.
44% said they would experience "a great deal of anxiety" if they lost their phone and couldn't replace it for a week.
In cognitive psychology, an addiction is defined as any behaviour that people engage in with above average frequency, and causes them to neglect other important parts of their daily lives, including sleep, exercise, hygiene, diet and nutrition, work, and family and personal relationships. Here are some of the situations that we see becoming increasingly common in our culture around our phones in our lives:
• Text messaging 80 percent more likely to cause traffic accidents than alcohol due to its distracting nature
• Thirty-five percent of adults with families regularly check their phone at the dinner table
• Sixty-six percent of smartphone owners sleep with their phone next to them, and look at it just before sleeping and first thing when they wake in the morning
• Forty-eight percent admit to ending a relationship via text message, email, Facebook or Twitter
Through this infographic let’s take a look at how compulsive using a smartphone has become.
