The decline of our personal lives and relationships with others is being driven by mobile phone addiction. London, Dec 2 (ANI).
A young person can send more than 100 texts and check their mobile device up to 60 times a day. Compulsively checking a mobile device can be linked to compulsive credit card misuse or compulsive spending, according to a new study by researchers reported by the Daily Mail.
Impulsiveness and materialism are what drive instant-messaging and mobile addiction, just as they do with substance and behavioural addictions, the researchers said.
Students who spend up to seven hours a day using communication technology should recognize that they have a behavioural problem, according to Dr James Roberts of Baylor's Hankamer School of Business.
Mobile devices are not only a consumer tool but part of consumer culture, and they erode the personal side of our lives, Dr James Roberts wrote in the paper. According to earlier studies, university students send up to 3,200 SMS per month, around 109.5 texts a day. They also receive about 113 texts and check their phones throughout the day. This means they spend up to seven hours a day on their phones, even during class. And if they lose their phones, Dr Roberts says, they have a huge problem. (ANI)