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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: 2) by gidds on Tuesday September 27 2016, @12:25PM

    by gidds (589) on Tuesday September 27 2016, @12:25PM (#406921)

    Please don't assume that such web sites are representative of Britain as a whole.  (I'm sure you can think of web sites which would give a wholly misleading impression of your country!)

    The BBC is better than some, but its web site can still be a pretty shallow at times, especially when covering 'soft' topics.  And many other sites are even more "Hey, all you young and trendy people!  Young and trendy people like you are having this problem that's particularly a problem for young and trendy people..."

    (Disclaimer: I'm over 25, and don't use TwitFace, so I'm clearly not in the story's intended readership, and this may all be curmudgeonly sour grapes.)

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