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Addicts take smartphones in toilets
PEOPLE ARE SO ADDICTED to smartphones that they take them into the toilet, a survey by telecoms regulator Ofcom has found.
According to the findings, 37 per cent of adults and 60 per cent of teenagers are "highly addicted" to smartphones, going to extraordinary lengths to get their next hit.
Over a quarter of adults - 27 per cent - and almost half of teenagers - 47 per cent - now own a smartphone, according to Ofcom's Communications Market Report.
Users of the moreish devices make significantly more calls and send more texts than regular mobile users, with 81 per cent of smartphone users making calls every day compared with 53 per cent of 'regular' users.
Teenagers admitted to Ofcom that they are even swapping traditionally antisocial habits in favour of their smartphone, with 23 per cent claiming to watch less TV and 15 per cent admitting they read fewer books.
Smartphones might be a catalyst for losing friends too. Over half - 51 per cent - of adults and two thirds - 65 per cent - of teenagers say they have used their smartphone while socialising with others, nearly a quarter - 23 per cent - of adults and a third - 34 per cent - of teenagers have used them during mealtimes and over a fifth - 22 per cent - of adult and nearly half - 47 per cent - of teenage smartphone users admitted using or answering their handset in the toilet.
The vast majority of smartphone users - 81 per cent - have their mobile switched on all the time, even when they are in bed, with four in ten adults - 38 per cent - and teens - 40 per cent - admitting using their smartphone after it woke them. Don't tell us romance isn't dead. µ
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I ALWAYS ASSUMED THE REASON YOU TAKE YOUR SMART PHONE INTO THE BOG IS SO YOU CAN TAKE HOMOSEXUAL VOYEUR SNAPS OF MY WILLY.
are more than likely the ones who fall in the statistics of being an addict.
El Inq and even El Reg are great bog reading material!
Those smartphones cost money, so of course people won't leave them lying around on their desks when they go to the toilet.
Since when has reading books been an antisocial habit??
Traditionally, people have kept magazines or newspapers by the toilet to read. Some have even been known to double-task by sorting mail...
There's no real difference in behavior here, just natural evolution of reading technology.
(1) Leaving the phone on all night is nothing to do with "addiction". It means that even in the event of an emergency, e.g. illness of an aged relative, you can be contacted at unusual times. Staying up all night staring at it and waiting for a message, that would be addiction.
(2) Taking a mobile phone into the toilet is nothing to do with "addiction". It's called a mobile phone. That means it's carried on you, doesn't it? What do you expect someone to do, leave it somewhere to be stolen while they use the facilities?
Addiction indeed. What a rubbish way to view human activities and attitudes.
another dumped out article ..and as i type i'm making a trophy for it!!
I don't care for this article, what a load of old jibbery joo.
81% is a surprisingly low statistic for the amount of people who keep their phone on when they are in bed.
I only really use my smartphone to map my runs and listen to music, as well as communicating with people of course, but I will still endulge in a game or two when im on the throne. Who wants to just sit there and listen to the sound of their own toilet adventures? Not this guy.
Zooman, talks sense. You should write an article, I would read that... on my spartphone... when im on the toilet.
Long before I had an iphone, i used to take my old nokia in the toilet so i could play Snake. Like many people I enjoy doing some reading in the johns, or playing some games to pace the time. But what about when I need to go at a friend's home or in a public place. When no light reading is available. Thats when you whip out the phone and play some games. How is a little session of Angry Birds, different from a crossword puzzle. There both nerve-racking and ennoying as hell, like stupid research and articles like this one.