I came across this new article today from News4Jax, The Local Station:
Survey: IPhone Users Obsessed
Phones Used As Watches, Alarm Clocks, Ways To Stay Connected Online
POSTED: Monday, March 8, 2010
UPDATED: 10:09 pm EST March 8, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Katey Weeks, a senior at Stanton High School, admits she can't live without her iPhone. She takes it to school with her every day and goes to bed with it every night.
"I sleep with it next to me," Weeks said.
Weeks apparently isn't alone.
According to a new Stanford University survey, most iPhone users are obsessed with their phones. Users don't just use their phones for calls anymore. They use it as a watch, an alarm clock and a way to stay connected online.
While Weeks admits to taking hers to school, many users take their iPhones to work, too. The iPhone craze has even hit the Channel 4 newsroom, where some admit to being obsessed.
"I'm probably on it every 10 minutes Facebooking, texting," one Channel 4 employee said.
"I call my iPhone Princess Podkinson," another employee said.
Emmeline Hayes, an addiction specialist for Riverpoint Behavioral Health, said the addiction is the same as being addicted to computers or video games.
"They have a very positive response in the brain," Hayes said. "It becomes a pattern or a coping skill."
Most users would argue an iPhone addiction isn't unhealthy. Of those surveyed, 70 percent said it keeps them more organized and more productive.
I don't know about you, but I know a lot of iPhone users who are just a little too friendly with their iPhone. If you have an iPhone and have a nickname for it C&M would like to know.
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I wouldn't say I'm obsessed, but I keep it with me at all times. Alarm Clock - yes, running - yes (with my runkeeper app), and most importantly; the bathroom - my iPhone has replaced all my bathroom reading material with online CNN/Huffington post or Stone loops of Jurassica.
ReplyDeleteOk maybe I am obsessed.
Everybody got by b4 the iPhone was released so I don't get y they can't now. Watch social skills and health deteriorate in the future thanks 2 things like the iPhone helping 2 make ppl even lazier than they r now.
ReplyDeleteDo ppl really think they r that important that they must b contactable 24/7 or that having an iPhone makes them cooler than someone else?
As 4 ppl naming their iPhone, that's just sad.
I can't even b bothered typing full words, imagine how much worse i'd b if i had an iPhone. :-)
Any updates heading our way?
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