How addicted are you?

[GrandOldTeam]

To your smartphone.

Or, suppose just phone now.

How long can you go without checking it? Do you feel uneasy when you dont have your phone to hand? Do you check your phone last thing before bed and first thing when you wake up?

 

[Kurt.]

*patiently waits for @Eggs

 

[Andy McGurk]

Bit of an unfair question when literally using my phone to answer it

 

[kev]

Litterally this minute just noticed unread Whatsapp messages from Monday

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

This will obviously scale with age.

For me, they're occasionally useful but also completely forgettable.

4/10

 

[The Binman]

I’d rather not have one if I’m honest, they’re a pain the a s s

 

[NathDogg]

Wish I never had one or needed one so much. Actively trying to reduce my usage.

Ruining kids including my own.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

Wish I never had one or needed one so much. Actively trying to reduce my usage.

Ruining kids including my own.

Often say, if i didn't need one for work/won the lottery - my phone would be the first thing go/a luxury to not need it.

 

[NathDogg]

Often say, if i didn't need one for work/won the lottery - my phone would be the first thing go/a luxury to not need it.

Be amazing if we could just bin them, except for GoT usage of course

 

[tommye]

Use it about 10 hrs a week now. That includes roughly half hour or so a day for work purposes.

More than halved my previous use.

 

[tommye]

Be amazing if we could just bin them, except for GoT usage of course

I've cut back at least 10 hours a week on here, maybe more.
Will use it even less now the footy season is over.

 

[Eggs]

*patiently waits for @Eggs

….at the insistence of my family, I now actually own one Saying that, I only use it when I stride out on my own in case somebody wants to get in touch. I never use it at home. Before retirement, on the phone lots but totally for work.

Milburn’s report is a massive concern and I can see how ‘bedroom kids’ are addicted to phones. The professor doing interviews for him said in many cases kids are getting little or no sleep at all because they are on their phones all night. It has to impact individuals social and communication skills, a generation could be lost.

We go on holiday and in the bar of an evening people don’t even talk to each other, glued to their phones. Kids riding bikes with hands off handles texting on phones.

100% a ban will come in for U16s but maybe their parents can start setting an example by putting their phones in a drawer at a certain time each night. Family time. It’s a huge concern.

 

[NathDogg]

I've cut back at least 10 hours a week on here, maybe more.
Will use it even less now the footy season is over.

Gonna try and do the same over the summer mate, might even got one of those apps that block stuff after a time limit has been hit.

 

[jaycee]

I try to use it as little as possible, if I am going out somewhere for around an hour or so I leave it at home, if I'm watching TV I put it in another room so as not to get distracted, it annoys me so much when you see parents with kids walking along a busy round and the parent is glued to the screen, put your phone away and watch your kid

 

[tommye]

….at the insistence of my family, I now actually own one Saying that, I only use it when I stride out on my own in case somebody wants to get in touch. I never use it at home. Before retirement, on the phone lots but totally for work.

Milburn’s report is a massive concern and I can see how ‘bedroom kids’ are addicted to phones. The professor doing interviews for him said in many cases kids are getting little or no sleep at all because they are on their phones all night. It has to impact individuals social and communication skills, a generation could be lost.

We go on holiday and in the bar of an evening people don’t even talk to each other, glued to their phones. Kids riding bikes with hands off handles texting on phones.

100% a ban will come in for U16s but maybe their parents can start setting an example by putting their phones in a drawer at a certain time each night. Family time. It’s a huge concern.

We're producing a generation of kids with no face to face communication skills with the attention span of a goldfish.
I guess it's just setting them up for a life of no work as AI destroys the workplace.