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NEW RESEARCH HAS found that 74% of people use their smartphone as soon as they wake up.
The findings were released yesterday as part of Deloitte’s digital consumer trend report.
The report also found that 52% of people tend to stay awake later than planned because they use their smartphone into the night.
Whether you’re using it first thing in the morning or last thing at night, we want to know how much time are you spending on your phone?
So today we’re asking: How much time do you spend on your phone per day?
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Of course i pick my phone up 1st thing in the morning its my alarm
Too much !!
Perfect escape from physical world and reality.
Pocket crack! And believe me I haven’t a leg to stand on.
Marvels of ingenuity and communication on one level.
Concentration wreckers, distraction monsters, misinformation spreaders and divisive political dynamite on another. What would the world look like if they (and social media) hadn’t been invented?
@SerotoninWars: We’d all be wandering around looking for change to use a working phone kiosk with a street map so we could meet up on time.
@F Fitzgerald: Haha true. Undoubtedly some benefits! Wealth of information and a treasure trove for the geeks and collectors among us too!
@SerotoninWars: a lot less radicalism on both ends of the spectrum I reckon.
@Rob Cahill: Agreed. When people have so much information there’s a quirk where we can end up becoming even more binary and black and white in our thinking. The grey area requires more thought and effort. Picking a team is easy. This on top of all the misinformation and expertly crafted, emotion stirring propaganda too.
48 people said they don’t have a phone………
Most of them probably were using it to read the article.
@P.J. Nolan: I never read the journal on my phone, Only ever on a laptop when in work. I have heard you can block people on the app though, Does it block every profile a user has at once or do you have to block them all individually?
Looking at my battery use, my most-used apps are Chrome browser, Tick-tick (free online to-do list app), an online game, the Journal itself, photos, reminders and texting.
Open comment.
I’m not on it now. I swear.
Far Too Much
I use mine a lot for work but I have no social media on it except whatsapp. I use it all the time in the car for Spotify as it appears playing decent music on the radio is now illegal.
{t depends, i read 200 hours 0r more a week.bu i am not normal .
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