Telenav: The average smartphone user checks their phone 34 times a day

New concepts such as social networks, mobile Internet, and cloud computing are the keywords of our era. Smartphones are undoubtedly the protagonists of this era, and they are becoming more and more deeply involved in people's daily lives.

A nationwide survey in the United States initiated by Telenav on August 8, 2011 found that people are willing to give up a series of activities as long as they can use smartphones. 70% of respondents said they were willing to give up drinking, more than 50% said they were willing to stay away from caffeine, chocolate, etc. for a week, 22% of respondents said they would rather give up their toothbrushes, 20% were willing to give up their computers, and 1/3 said they would rather give up their sex life for a week than give up their smartphones.

According to the latest survey by Ofcom, a British media watchdog, 60% of young people and 37% of adults describe themselves as "highly addicted" to their phones. Telenav found that 66% of smartphone users sleep with their phones, and 31% of users constantly check their phones while on the move. Another study conducted by OkCupid found that Twitter addicts constantly take out their phones to check the latest Weibo messages. It is Twitter and Facebook that have intensified people's demand and dependence on smartphones, which has disconnected them from the world around them, including their loved ones.

According to foreign media reports, a recent US study pointed out that each smartphone user must check their phone 34 times a day on average, sometimes as often as once every 10 minutes. This kind of "mobile phone obsessive-compulsive disorder" users can be seen everywhere, and people have formed the habit of using their phones to check information from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Generally speaking, checking a phone once will not exceed 30 seconds, which includes simply opening the screen lock or swiping the screen at will. The survey results are consistent with the results of recent studies conducted by psychologists. Compared with interacting with other people, people prefer to play with their smartphones. People are afraid of missing any "information related to them." This behavior is often not deliberate, but has penetrated into people's subconscious.

In China, the situation is similar. Whether waiting for a bus, attending a meeting, or before a meal, it has become a habit to take out a mobile phone to post a Weibo. In addition, Weibo live broadcast has become a standard feature of the schedule for various meetings, large and small. There was a post on the Liba website called "Should we divorce and let him marry the mobile phone?" It turned out that the poster's husband was addicted to the mobile phone and ignored the family's feelings. For example, he played with the mobile phone for two hours, but was unwilling to spend five minutes to help his wife hang the clothes. When a family of three went out, the wife held the child and the husband held the mobile phone.

Not only that, some experts believe that excessive reliance on mobile phones can easily make people lose the motivation and ability to think, and no longer know how to use rest time to have fun casually, which is also harmful to physical and mental health. Some doctors suggest that if the situation is serious, the mobile phone should be placed farther away from oneself to avoid suffering from "technological disease". At the same time, we should look up and look at people more often, and re-cultivate the habit of eye contact. Some netizens also suggested that we can carry out activities similar to "Earth Lights Off Hour" to keep us away from mobile phones for an hour.

Despite this, it is impossible for people to return to the era without smartphones. The popularity of smartphones has more benefits than disadvantages for human society. It has greatly improved the efficiency of human production and life, and the power it brings is participating in the reconstruction of our social form. People's dependence on smartphones will soon adapt to it with human self-adjustment ability. The smartphone industry will continue to develop rapidly and fill every corner of the world.

VIA Business Value