UK’s watchdog Ofcom has revealed the numbers on country’s growing appetite for using social networking sites and smartphones. According to the report more than 50% of the teenagers use smartphones and one fourth of the adult population now carries a smartphone.
The high demand for smartphones is due to their growing love for social networkds such as Facebook and Twitter as more than 50% of the teenagers accept that they are addicted to suing their smartphones, regardless of wherever they are. The use of the social networks is now bringing about a major change in their daily routines with 50% of the teenagers are admitting to carry their phones in the toilet, whereas nearly one fourth of the adults have accepted they do the same.
The report was revealed on Thrusday which suggests that the use of smartphones is also beginning to interfere on private moments.
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a lot people have lost the plot im afraid,there are gonna be a lot of people with mental health problems in the future ,what are these people missing out of their lives????
“they are addicted to suing their smartphones”.
uh huh.
When did Brits require validation and acknowledgment by others to satisfy their own existence. Since too much American TV came our way and don’t get me started on the “I’ll be your friend” style parenting rather than a real parent!
Call me a billy-no-mates-with-no-online-social-network-existence-bore if you like, but I’m happy and have no need to feel wanted by anybody to justify my life. I also don’t feel the need to tell “the world” all the minutiae of my daily life or feel the need to gossip about inconsequential meaningless guff. Like “the world” is paying any attention!!
One FOURTH of the adult population? You mean one QUARTER! Are there not enough Americanisms in our language.
How many teenagers have successfully SUED their smartphone? I am a bit short of cash at the moment, can I sue my IPhone?
Of course you don’t get caught up in all that nonsense Mr Smith, reporting on every part of your daily life in public as if people care. It’s almost as bad as people who respond to online news articles with their opinions that the whole world has gone to hell in a handbasket as if their opinion somehow matters.