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Smartphones are taking over people's lives as users 'obsessively' check their devices, scientists
Daily Mail ^ | 7/27/11 | Staff

Posted on 07/27/2011 9:27:41 AM PDT by Nachum

They are often hailed as an essential component of modern life. But smartphones are taking over some people's lives, according to a study that has identified repetitive and obsessive use of the devices. Scientists have uncovered what they call 'checking habits', when users frequently look at the menu screen, news, email, contacts, and social applications on the device. A typical checking lasts less than 30 seconds and involves opening the screen lock and accessing a single application. The researchers, from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, were surprised to find users engaging in checking behaviours throughout the waking hours.

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1 posted on 07/27/2011 9:27:45 AM PDT by Nachum
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Do people with Smartphones do dumb things?


2 posted on 07/27/2011 9:29:07 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

What’s a smart phone??


3 posted on 07/27/2011 9:29:07 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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Is there an app to help with this?


4 posted on 07/27/2011 9:33:07 AM PDT by Hodar (Who needs laws .... when this "feels" so right?)
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To: Nachum
They are often hailed as an essential component of modern life. But smartphones are taking over some people's lives, according to a study that has identified repetitive and obsessive use of the devices. Scientists have uncovered what they call 'checking habits', when users frequently look at the menu screen, news, email, contacts, and social applications on the device. A typical checking lasts less than 30 seconds and involves opening the screen lock and accessing a single application. The researchers, from Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, were surprised to find users engaging in checking behaviours throughout the waking hours.
 
Hah! What silly fools. Glad I'm not obsessed like that.
 
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5 posted on 07/27/2011 9:34:00 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (The views and opinions expressed in this post are true and correct. Deal with it)
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Spent last week on vacation with my sister and her family. The entire week she had her “device” out messing with one app or another. Didn’t matter if we were eating, watching a movie, at poolside. The device never left her hand.

I wonder if she realized our vacation together has come and gone?


6 posted on 07/27/2011 9:38:23 AM PDT by MarDav
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I have a I PHONE and at first it is pretty obsessive mostly to figure it out but it loses it flavor after awhile and you just use it normally. The same thing happened when I signed up for Facebook over a year ago. I was on Facebook for hours and hours and now I go on and browse for a minute and come back to Free Republic. Now if they did a study on Free Republic.......oy.


7 posted on 07/27/2011 9:39:09 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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I have a cell, no text capability, no internet. It only makes calls. And I only turn it on when I intend to use it. When I’m done, unless I’m expecting a call, or need to be available, I turn it off.

My daughter has a droid. She’s so obsessed with it, yesterday she asked me if a sauna was bad for it. I said, “Hmmmm, high heat and high moisture, what do you think? Duh”. Turns out she fried hers by using it in the sauna. She couldn’t stand to be without it for the 10 minutes she’d be in the sauna!

Aldous Huxley was right.


8 posted on 07/27/2011 9:39:13 AM PDT by brownsfan (I miss the America I grew up in.)
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Guilty


9 posted on 07/27/2011 9:45:03 AM PDT by mnehring
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Scientists have uncovered what they call 'checking habits', when users frequently look at the menu screen, news, email, contacts, and social applications on the device.

Gee, what will those scientists uncover next? I've always wondered about the color of the sky. Maybe they could work on that?

10 posted on 07/27/2011 9:56:03 AM PDT by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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I get by fine with a tracphone and prepaid minutes.


11 posted on 07/27/2011 9:57:35 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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I use a 9 dollar tracfone. I call it my dumb-phone. I have a buddy who used to be fun to hang out with before he got a “smart” phone. Now he’s got his nose in it constantly. I don’t hang out with him anymore.


12 posted on 07/27/2011 10:03:42 AM PDT by Huck
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You mean your 'smart'phone can actually be used to make contact with people? wow.

I recently 'Infuse'd' while wifey iPhone'd.. she is still playing angry birds day and night. I played for 10 days and quit. cold turkey. tweet!

13 posted on 07/27/2011 10:07:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

no kidding! It only gets worse once you bookmark FreeRepublic.com on your smartphone!


14 posted on 07/27/2011 10:10:50 AM PDT by MNDude (so that's what they meant by Carter's second term)
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To: Nachum

Currently freeping in my doc’s waiting room. It’s better than the magazines!

Not into the lying Time mag, boaters monthly, or old people mag telling me Jen is back with John Mayer.


15 posted on 07/27/2011 10:14:40 AM PDT by Yaelle
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Smartphones are taking over people's lives as users 'obsessively' check their devices, scientists

Well, good-looking scientists, maybe....


16 posted on 07/27/2011 10:16:35 AM PDT by mikrofon (Blinded me)
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“Good heavens, Miss Sakamoto, you’re beautiful.”


17 posted on 07/27/2011 10:18:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Nachum

The best thing about the smartphone is you always have something interesting to read on the john. Just don’t drop it in afterwards.....then you will really find out how much you love your smartphone.


18 posted on 07/27/2011 10:18:25 AM PDT by HerrBlucher ("It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged." G.K. Chesterton)
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To: cripplecreek

You and me both.


19 posted on 07/27/2011 10:18:25 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Nachum

Right now I’m obsessively checking to see if the FedEx truck is approaching to deliver my new Samsung Galaxy 7 Tab.

Time to look out the window ...


20 posted on 07/27/2011 10:21:29 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.' - Homer Simpson)
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