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posted by takyon on Monday September 26 2016, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly
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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2016, @02:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2016, @02:41AM (#406820)

    Never been more addicted to smartphone, huh. Not even during the 80's??
    Seriously... it seems the world in general (and the Brits in particular) have never been more prone to dumb studies...

    I'll bite, example of an 80's smartphone please...now, show me a fscking picture of an average street in Britain back in the 80's where almost everyone is holding one..

    From observations both @work, @home and around where I live here in Britain, there are two major age groups who appear to be 'addicted to smartphones', those under 30 and those over 60.

    The over 60's, I'm not 100% sure I'd really call it an addiction as such, more a convenient way for both them and their family to keep in touch 24/7 (endless, endless pictures of grandchildren..). As someone who has spent far too many decades in IT it's initially a somewhat amusing and surreal experience watching an OAP digging a (usually) Samsung Galaxy whatever out of their purse/pocket, usually a more powerful and modern model than the thing I lug around with me..considering that this group are traditionally classed as luddites when it comes to IT in general. I know from talking to colleagues that a number of them have given their ageing parents smartphones with GPS tracking and alerting enabled. If you have to ask why?, apart from general concern, the more specific reason is that I live in an area where there is both a high percentage of Alzheimer's cases and a bloody (and criminally negligent IMHO) high percentage probability that it won't be diagnosed by what passes for healthcare services.

    The younger ones seem to prefer iphones, and apparently their ickle wickle personal universes will all collapse if they do not have 24/7 access to failbook et al - if you question that it's an addiction, well, ever watched someone stop what they're doing on a lathe in a somewhat dangerous manner just to dig out their phone to answer a fucking facebook message? (yes, a severe bollocking was issued (written warning), yes, phones are and were banned from the workshop.)

    Us middle age farts, neither fish nor fowl, well apparently (looks in jacket pocket..) we have the things, and that's about it..

    The dumb studies thing, that one I don't know about as I'm nominally 'British' (native subset who dislikes the label), and I only ever get to hear about them when people on sites like this take the piss out of them. Don't confuse the fact that these studies exist with the notion that everyone/anyone here in Britain actually gives a flying fuck about them or their 'conclusions'.