We really are slaves to our smartphone: An average user now looks at their device every FOUR minutes
The tyranny of the smartphone has been revealed with evidence people are tapping at the screen every four minutes during their waking hours.
A desire not to miss out on anything that might be happening with friends, celebrities and even mild acquaintances on social media has fuelled this tech addition.
Some 24 per cent time of spent on these phones is using the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
At the same time, the conventional working day has effectively been killed off with people dealing with work emails from the moment they wake until their head hits the pillow at night.
Rather than living in the moment, enjoying their surroundings and relating to real people, young smartphone addicts are focused on the screen, constantly searching for something more interesting elsewhere.
Great events, concerts or a sandy beach, are viewed through a smartphone camera to create videos that can be shared online rather than simply being enjoyed.
And people’s entire persona is shaped by the selfies they upload to the many and various social media accounts they use.
The social research, commissioned by Direct Line, involved putting apps on to people’s smartphones to measure how they are used.
It found that – on average – people check the devices an astonishing 253 times a day.
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