Now it isn’t exactly news that people, especially the younger users amongst us, spend an unhealthy amount of time tapping away at their phones. All one has to do is peek around at just about any social gathering, or catch public transport, to see how reliant we have become on our phones to entertain us – and prevent us having to interact with the outside world.
There have been multiple studies conducted on the amount we use our phones, and the numbers don’t exactly make for pretty reading. The infographic below come courtesy of Design Taxi:
Yeah, perhaps that zombie apocalypse the naysayers keep on warning us about is already here. 21 days a year spent on our phones? Just think of all those awkward exchanges with real humans you are missing out on.
[source:designtaxi]
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