"They
are using it like a drug so they're bored, they pick up the phone. They're
tired, they pick up the phone. They're lazy, they pick up their phone. They're
angry, they pick up the phone. They're lonely, they pick up the phone.” said
Greenfield, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School
of Medicine.
So how else
can you tell if you might be addicted to your smartphone or if you fall in the
larger category of your smartphone use getting out of hand? Here you have ten signs you may have a problem:
1. When you
check your phone to see the current temperature instead of opening a window,
and/or when you check your phone to see the current time instead of looking at
the watch that's right on your wrist.
2. When you
have to consciously say to your spouse "Let's put our phones away"
while watching TV because it's more common that they're out than away.
3. If you
are answering emails in a dimly lit reception area while waiting for your
massage therapist to distress you, you may have a problem.
4. When
your kids have to text you their carry-out orders because you've lost the
ability to retain information that is not received on your phone.
5. When you
hope you hit a bunch of red lights on the way home so you can comment on a
Facebook post.
6. When one
of your daughter's first drawings of you has a BlackBerry in your hand.
7. When you
wake up, you grab your phone and check it before you get up to pee.
8. When you
drop a phone on your face because you're dozing off.
9. When you
choose your clothing based on the best pockets to hold your phone.
10. When
you are staring at photos you took on your phone while the actual moment is
taking place right in front of you.
To fall
into the addicted camp, Greenfield also says your smartphone use has to have
"some deleterious impact on a major life sphere, whether it's an impact on
your work, your academic performance, your home life, primary relationship,
parenting, legal status."
"Let's
say you get pulled over and get a ticket for texting and driving. There has to
be some negative impact generally for us to say you have a problem,"
Greenfield said.
And while
the majority of Americans wouldn't be classified as addicted, and are more
likely overusing their devices, there is a fair amount of denial at work, he
said.
Greenfield's
research found that while 98% of respondents said that texting while driving is
dangerous, nearly 75% admit having done it.
"Just
like drinking and driving, people have a very poor perception of impact, so, in
other words, people will be doing their normal thing," he said.
"They'll be driving and balancing their cell phone and drinking their
coffee, and they'll say to you, and they'll mean it, that they are not impacted
... but actually we know from a lot of data and research that that is
absolutely not true."
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