Friends May Be Driven Away Due to Addiction to Mobile Phones

The waning of our personal lives and relationships with others is due to the addiction to mobile phones. London, Dec 2 (ANI)

A young person can send more than 100 texts and check his or her mobile device up to 60 times every day. The compulsive checking of a mobile device can be linked to compulsive credit card misuse or compulsive spending addiction, according to a new study done by researchers, as revealed by the Daily Mail.

Impulsiveness and materialism are what drive the instant messaging and mobile addiction, just like they do with substance and behavioural addictions, the researchers said.

Students who would spend up to seven hours a day interacting with communication technology should know that they have a behavioural problem, according to Dr. James Roberts, of Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business.

Mobile devices are not only a tool for consumers but a part of the consumer culture, and they also wane the personal affairs of our different lives, according to Dr. James Roberts in the paper. University students have been found to send up to 3,200 SMS per month and 109.5 texts each day, according to old studies. They also receive 113 texts and would look at their phones every day. This means that they spend up to seven hours doing so, even during class hours. And if they lose their phones, according to Dr. Roberts, they have a huge problem. (ANI)