62% of Americans Can’t Go 30 Minutes Without Checking Their Phone, New Study Finds
The average American adult spends seven hours a day looking at screens, whether they’re scrolling social media, playing mobile games, or texting their friends.
For many people, this amount of screen time is more compulsive than purposeful: cell phone and social media addiction is affecting more adults than ever. Despite the noted links between increased screen time and decreased mental health, millions of adults can’t break their digital habits.
To discover the extent of control our phone screens have on our lives, EZContacts conducted a study of 1,000 U.S. adults, analyzing daily phone use and social media habits. The results indicate that even though we know that phones have the potential to mentally, physically, and socially harm us, many of us feel incapable of putting the phone down.
