It would be hard these days to find someone who doesn’t own a cell phone, or even a smartphone.
Smartphone Stats:
- Nearly two thirds
- 64%own smartphones
- Up from 35% in Spring 2011
Smartphone Use:
- 62% look up health info
- 57% online banking
- 44% real estate info
- 43% info on jobs
Could our constant need for the screen become a problem? WBOC‘s Paul Butler, came in to tell us that it definitely can become a problem.
Butler days that you can definitely become addicted to your phone, many people let it interrupt their lives and pick it up every few minutes no matter what they are doing.
Research says that college students are most likely to become addicted to their cell phones. Leslie Donnelly, a licensed psychologist, talked about how much college students are on their phones and how they let it interrupt their lives and interactions with people.
Paul Butler tells us how you can “Power Down”, or help break your cell phone dependency on WBOC.
