Onepoll's new report showed alarming numbers: the average adult spends about six hours a day, "sticking" to a smartphone, which gives 88 days a year - almost a quarter of a year is spent on a scroll on the network.
The most time in the phones is spent generation Z - more than six and a half hours daily. The study also revealed a number of psychological consequences of such a way of life.
Anxious numbers:
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10% confessed that they spend more than 12 hours a day on their phone screens;
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50% feel that their "social battery" is discharged after the amount of time spent on online communication (among the Z-62% generation);
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52% feel depressed due to the pressure associated with the need to be aware of the events on social networks;
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59% said that over the last year, the time spent on the phone has grown;
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47% are "always online" and the flow of messages they receive is "permanent" (60%);
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64% are nostalgic in the 1990s and missed people when people communicated without smartphones;
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32% postpone plans with friends because of digital overload, and 18% cannot even imagine the organization of meetings because of fatigue.
The time spent on living communication has decreased by 35% over the last 24 years, while the time spent by phone has increased more than twice (by 54%).
These are really scary figures on the scale of all humanity. The thoughtless social network scroll takes time that could be used for real life, development and good deeds.
