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Smartphone addiction

Lost in the world of smartphones

Where average times spent on a smartphone in a day was 4.5 hours in 2019, it has increased 39 per cent to seven hours in 2020. Certainly, a significant part of this increase in smartphone addiction is due to the urgency of connecting to the world around us during stay-at-home restrictions, and due to the revolution in the work-from-home culture including online teaching, etc.

Smartphones: Addiction and gaze

Although smartphones have made our lives easier, more fun and more social in important ways, there's also a huge downside to this technology. All the major research findings indicate that when we are totally immersed in social media, we miss out on real conversations and are incapable of original and deep thinking