If you are like typical Americans, it was …..96 times!
That’s once every 10 minutes, according to global tech care company Asurion. The company also said it’s a 20% increase from a similar survey researchers conducted two years ago…
More from the survey showing our addiction:
The company’s data also showed 18- to 24-year-olds check their phones twice as much as the national average, and the age group is aware of their heavy phone usage.
Texting is now common among all age groups with baby boomers being seven times more likely to text than talk in-person and twice as likely to send a text rather than dial a phone number. Nearly 50% of Americans say their smartphones actually help them achieve more work-life balance, not less.
(Really?)
The survey showed nearly nine out of 10 Americans are offended when someone they’re speaking with starts looking at their phone. Ironically, 75% of survey takers admit they’ve done it themselves.
One in five say they do this frequently.
And with all this said, Bill Maher recently said that cell phone addictions are turning people into “real assholes”
