MY STATISTICS
My weekly average of hours per day in the last 7 days was 5h 48m, down 13% from last week. Out of these hours, 17 h 32m were spent on social media, 8h 2m on games, and 3h 39m on entertainment such as Netflix and Youtube. This all rounds up to a weekly total of 40h and 41m.
Today as of 11:37am, I have been on my phone for 3h 29m, almost 2h 31m above average. That consists of nearly 2 hours of social media, 29 minutes of games, and 28 minutes of entertainment. My most used app is Snapchat which is common in teenagers, following that is Minecraft and Instagram.
PARAGRAPH QUESTION: Are teenagers addicted to their phones?
Someone once said to me along the lines of this: 'when you are addicted, partaking in that certain activity doesn't make it a good day, it makes it a normal day.' When we are talking in the sense of social media or questioning the statistics of phone addiction, I do believe that a majority of teenagers are addicted to their phones, and most of us see it like this, including the addicts themselves.
For example, according to the 2016 Common Sense Media report, approximately half of teenagers surveyed feel they are addicted in some way to their phone or social media. A 2018 Pew Research report indicated that 45 percent of teenagers use the internet "almost constantly". Furthermore, 50 percent of girls are near-constant internet users, compared to the male statistic of 39 percent. 95 percent of teens surveyed has access to a smartphone of some kind. Studies show that this may be a psychological problem for teenagers. Not only does frequent cell phone use at night alter the user's sleeping patterns, but researchers have concluded there are similarities and differences between diagnostic symptoms of drug addictions and behavioral addictions (such as cell phone addiction). It is evident that the physical signs of drug addiction are not present in behavioral addiction through the symptoms of withdrawal: drug addicts go through physical withdrawal as well as a psychological withdrawal, whereas behavioral addicts go through the psychological withdrawal predominantly. From a neurological view, the effects of pharmaceutical addiction on the brain's chemical levels (such as dopamine, the "happy" chemical) and the effects of behavioral addiction are extremely similar. When behavioral addicts and drug addicts go through withdrawal, for example, the effect it has on the brain is quite similar. From this information I can conclude that yes, most teenagers are addicted to their smartphones, but furthermore, the effects of behavioral addiction is worse than we think. A question we should ask ourselves is this: when you use your cellphone, does it make it a good day, or a normal day?
https://www.psycom.net/cell-phone-internet-addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354400/
Someone once said to me along the lines of this: 'when you are addicted, partaking in that certain activity doesn't make it a good day, it makes it a normal day.' When we are talking in the sense of social media or questioning the statistics of phone addiction, I do believe that a majority of teenagers are addicted to their phones, and most of us see it like this, including the addicts themselves.
For example, according to the 2016 Common Sense Media report, approximately half of teenagers surveyed feel they are addicted in some way to their phone or social media. A 2018 Pew Research report indicated that 45 percent of teenagers use the internet "almost constantly". Furthermore, 50 percent of girls are near-constant internet users, compared to the male statistic of 39 percent. 95 percent of teens surveyed has access to a smartphone of some kind. Studies show that this may be a psychological problem for teenagers. Not only does frequent cell phone use at night alter the user's sleeping patterns, but researchers have concluded there are similarities and differences between diagnostic symptoms of drug addictions and behavioral addictions (such as cell phone addiction). It is evident that the physical signs of drug addiction are not present in behavioral addiction through the symptoms of withdrawal: drug addicts go through physical withdrawal as well as a psychological withdrawal, whereas behavioral addicts go through the psychological withdrawal predominantly. From a neurological view, the effects of pharmaceutical addiction on the brain's chemical levels (such as dopamine, the "happy" chemical) and the effects of behavioral addiction are extremely similar. When behavioral addicts and drug addicts go through withdrawal, for example, the effect it has on the brain is quite similar. From this information I can conclude that yes, most teenagers are addicted to their smartphones, but furthermore, the effects of behavioral addiction is worse than we think. A question we should ask ourselves is this: when you use your cellphone, does it make it a good day, or a normal day?
https://www.psycom.net/cell-phone-internet-addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354400/
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