Post by Daniel on Jul 8, 2016 8:17:27 GMT -5
Cell Phone Addiction Consuming A Generation
By PNW Staff July 06, 2016
In the age where the dinner table is more like a Wi-Fi hub, taking away the bright screen from a child or yourself is a difficult task.
Emails, messages, and updates keep our eyes glued, and our fingers tap-tap-tapping on the screen even as we grudgingly admit how unhealthy it is.
The word addiction is thrown around when it comes to nearly every aspect of our lives, but the need to hold that contact with the world in the palm of our hand has indeed become a dangerous one.
Motor vehicle wrecks, walking into traffic and railway crossings, etc. are mere warning signs of how deeply the mind can sink into an electronic swamp while the physical body and our relationships suffer the consequences.
The statistics are startling:
- The average user checks their cellphone 110 times throughout the day, which translates into spending 3.6 hours on their cellphone at least each day (some college studies have shown this to be double for college age students) That means we spend over an entire day (25.2 hours to be exact) each week on our phones.
- 40% Check their cell phones on the toilet
- 12% Check their cell phones in the shower
- 26% of car accidents are related to cell phone usage
- 75% of smartphone users check their phone within an hour of getting up in the morning
- 56% of users check their phone within an hour of "going to sleep"
- 61% of users admit to sleeping with their phone turned on under their pillow or next to their bed
- 51% of users check their phone constantly while on "vacation"
- 50% of users feel uncomfortable when they don't have their cell phone with them or have no service
- 58% of children aged 3 to 5 can operate a smartphone, but only one to six percent know how to make their own breakfast.
These stats speak even more to the generation we are raising, now. Earbuds dangling from one or both ears and a palm full of phone and your child cannot, and will not, hear anything outside of what they are being fed through their electronic device.
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www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=468
By PNW Staff July 06, 2016
In the age where the dinner table is more like a Wi-Fi hub, taking away the bright screen from a child or yourself is a difficult task.
Emails, messages, and updates keep our eyes glued, and our fingers tap-tap-tapping on the screen even as we grudgingly admit how unhealthy it is.
The word addiction is thrown around when it comes to nearly every aspect of our lives, but the need to hold that contact with the world in the palm of our hand has indeed become a dangerous one.
Motor vehicle wrecks, walking into traffic and railway crossings, etc. are mere warning signs of how deeply the mind can sink into an electronic swamp while the physical body and our relationships suffer the consequences.
The statistics are startling:
- The average user checks their cellphone 110 times throughout the day, which translates into spending 3.6 hours on their cellphone at least each day (some college studies have shown this to be double for college age students) That means we spend over an entire day (25.2 hours to be exact) each week on our phones.
- 40% Check their cell phones on the toilet
- 12% Check their cell phones in the shower
- 26% of car accidents are related to cell phone usage
- 75% of smartphone users check their phone within an hour of getting up in the morning
- 56% of users check their phone within an hour of "going to sleep"
- 61% of users admit to sleeping with their phone turned on under their pillow or next to their bed
- 51% of users check their phone constantly while on "vacation"
- 50% of users feel uncomfortable when they don't have their cell phone with them or have no service
- 58% of children aged 3 to 5 can operate a smartphone, but only one to six percent know how to make their own breakfast.
These stats speak even more to the generation we are raising, now. Earbuds dangling from one or both ears and a palm full of phone and your child cannot, and will not, hear anything outside of what they are being fed through their electronic device.
continue reading
www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=468
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