The document discusses people's growing reliance and addiction to mobile technology. It notes that 77% of UK teens experience nomophobia or cell phone addiction. When we receive texts or notifications, dopamine is released in our brains giving us pleasure. As a result, people are constantly checking their phones to get this feeling. However, this leads us to miss face-to-face interactions and be unaware of our real-world surroundings. The average person now carries their phone with them 97% of the time and a large percentage of mobile internet use is for social media like Facebook and Instagram. While technology keeps us connected, overreliance on screens can diminish real-world interactions if unchecked.
8. The number of people accessing
the internet by a mobile phone
has increased by 60.3% to 818.4
million in the last 2 years.
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9. Much of this mobile internet
use is to access social media
sites.
15% of total mobile internet time spent on social
media in the United states
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11. There are more instagram
photos posted each day
than there are English
language Wikipedia pages
ever published
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12. People obsess over “likes”, “re-
tweets”, “followers”, “friends”
and “shares”
Mobile life starts to surpass or even
become real life
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13. The fastest growing demographic
forFacebookand Twitter users is
people over 45 years of age
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14. Facebook users also seem to be
starting earlier and earlier with
young children lying about their
age to create an account
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15. Mobile devices projected to exceed
10 billion by 2017
That’s 1.4 mobile devices per person
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16. With every generation becoming more
and more reliant on technology to
communicate
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19. We live in a world where it is
inexcusable to be unavailable.
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20. While using mobile technology
may be necessary to stay
connected in a growing futuristic
world, moderation is a must as the
world outside of a cell phone
screen will diminish if neglected.
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