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from the it's-not-an-addiction,-I-need-it-for-work dept.
The BBC reports on the results of a survey by Deloitte, on smartphone usage trends in the United Kingdom, which shows that the UK has never been more addicted to smartphones.
People in the UK have never been more addicted to their smartphones, according to a report from Deloitte.
One in three adults check for messages at night, and admit their overuse is causing rows with their partners.
For some, FOMO - or the fear of missing out - leaves them in the grip of an addiction to their devices, according to the survey.
"What smartphones enable people to do is to keep tags of what's happening, what people are saying, what people are posting. You can do that throughout the day and what smartphones are encouraging people to do is to do that at night," Paul Lee, head of technology, media and telecommunications research at Deloitte told Today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @10:20PM
There are many, many things that people consider obvious.
Many are not even true, let alone obviously so.
Reasonable expectation is very different to knowing.
It was obvious, for example: that injecting people with pathogens is a bad idea (vaccines); that the earth is flat; that the sun orbits us; that spanking does more good than harm (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924231749.htm); that having a radiation source next to your crotch all day every day is dangerous (keychain torch); etc.
"But this is directly perceivable."
No, it isn't. Only the public use of phones in your social circles which occurs within your perception is directly perceivable.
It might well have been that use was on the decline and your circles happen to be an exception.
It could be you're boring as shit and people use their phone more around you.
It may be the change was slow enough and slight enough that you simply didn't notice the slight (but steady) decline 'causing' people to use their phone --- on avarage --- one minute less per day.
It is not obvious.
Furthermore there's the obvious historical value of such studies documenting our times more accurately than:
"2010: Extremely common."
"2011: Extremely common."
"2012: 'Everybody' has one."
"2013: 'Everybody' has one."
"2014: 'Everybody' has one."
"2015: 'Everybody' has one."
"2016: 'Everybody' has one."
So, to any who shit on research like this, yarbles to you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2016, @11:30PM
Get outta here before we tie you to a pitchfork shaped chair that holds your eyes open!
(Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Tuesday September 27 2016, @06:08PM
I predict that in the year 2017, UK will have never been as addicted to their smartphones, even more so than today! And there will be more of them (UKians that is) to wield smart phones.
You never hear about smart people holding a dumb phone, so by extension one has to presume there is too low of a quantity of smart people to include in the survey.
Or perhaps the survey was only done on smart phones? Dumb phones likely couldn't run the survey to allow for such surveilling.