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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: 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.