The smartphone is the new drug addiction.
Think about it: you spend nearly every waking moment staring at your mobile device, you carry it around with you everywhere, you spend dollars on applications, you allow the device to track you, and you even hear “phantom ringing.”
The idea applies to television, computers, tablets, and other screens.
Don’t think you’re addicted? The first step to fighting addiction is admitting you have a problem…
According to a new study, the average adult spends six hours and 43 minutes of total screen time daily. This accounts for nearly half of your waking hours, or 7,956 days over a typical life span.
And it’s getting worse. Seventy-nine percent revealed that their screen time has increased over the last five years, and 40 percent say it’s increase “a lot.”
Overall, 75 percent concede they spend too much time in front of screens. Considering that half of the survey participants take breaks from their computers to … check their phones, or one-quarter watch TV and look at their phones at the same time, they’re probably right.
Put that phone down, look out the window, or read an Agatha Christie murder mystery.
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