39% interact more with smartphones than lovers, parents, friends, children or co-workers
BloombergIt’s not your imagination: Millennials really are glued to their smartphones.
Nearly four in 10 millennials (39%) say they interact more with their smartphones than they do with their significant others, parents, friends, children or co-workers, according to a survey of more than 1,000 people released Wednesday by Bank of America. That’s compared with fewer than one in three people of all ages who say they engage with their smartphones more.
This means that, on an average day, millennials — defined here as being ages 18 to 34 — “interact with their smartphone more than anything or anyone else,” the survey concluded.
This may not surprise anyone who has looked at millennial smartphone usage. More millennials (77%) own smartphones — and spend more time on them (over two hours a day) — than any other age group, according to a 2014 report that examined the behavior of more than 23,000 adults, and was released by Experian.“In fact, millennials spend so much time on their smartphones that they account for 41% of the total time that Americans spend using smartphones, despite making up just 29% of the population,” the report concluded.
Furthermore, nearly half of millennials — significantly more than any older age group — say they “couldn’t live without” their smartphone, according to data released in 2015 by the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C.
| Millions of millennials couldn’t bear to part with their smartphones Percentage who say they “couldn’t live without” their smartphone |
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| Age 18 – 29 | 47% |
| Age 30 – 49 | 44% |
| Age 50 – 64 | 35% |
| Age 65 and up | 30% |
| Source: Pew Research Center | |
Millennials are also far more likely to use their smartphone as a social escape: More than seven in 10 millennials say they have used their smartphone to avoid a social interaction, compared with fewer than half (44%) of others, according to the Bank of America data.
To be fair, millennials have many compelling reasons for using their smartphones: Experian data show that roughly one in five millennials (again, more than other age groups) use their phones to read the news during a typical week, and millennials are more likely than other cohort to use their phones to stay in touch with friends. What’s more, Pew data shows that millennials are more likely than other groups to use their phones to look at educational content, find and apply for jobs and learn more about a health condition.
Aww, let ’em have their fun. Before long they’ll be totin’ big, heavy, scary rifles in combat and learnin’ the true meaning of “safe spaces”.
How many TBP’ers carry a tracking devi………..I mean smart phone with them each day?
I have an eleven year old flip phone I’ve epoxied back together twice now and half the screen has delaminated. Sometimes I can’t even find the damn thing.
I use one for work for email and text options. Don’t know how to use the rest of it outside of the calculator and weather forecaster functions. Don’t care either. If I don’t have to worry about the business on any given day I just leave it at home in my office. I detest the damn thing as much as I detested my old flip phone and for the same reason. I prefer to be left alone. Outside of work I don’t see it as being necessary at all.
I’ve been under the weather for a couple of weeks and I am not shopping for sympathy, unless you want to send chocolates..
However, I lost all interest in charging or using my cell phone. I not only don’t know where it is right now. I don’t care.
I think my life has improved greatly. I hate being at the beck and call of a cell phone.
Maggie,
sorry to hear you are under the weather…
get well soon!
Maggie – I am betting you are suffering from avian flu. Just a wild ass guess, of course.
The conversation with my granddaughter recently went like this:
Me- Don’t you young folks date anymore?
Her- Not like when you were young.
Me- It’s Saturday night and you are at home stuck to your cell phone, that is wrong on every level. (She is drop dead beautiful)
Her- We all like to face-time with each other.
Me- You can’t dance with a boy over the phone, don’t you people have dances?
Her- Not really, the drug dealers show up then the police come and bust half of the kids there.
Cell phones are replacing human interaction and society is missing the point that this will have an effect on the young people in so many ways. When a young male and female are together the hormones are raging and pheromones are flying and there is MAGIC. How in the hell do you have magic over a cell phone? This is a trick of the owners to curb population and move us toward non-sexual relations. I’m guessing babies will be lab grown in the future just as they have always wanted.
Don’t complain about being sick unless you’ve had pneumonia. Pussy.
Love my smart phone cause it’s.. well smart… can’t work without her.I talk to the meatheads of the world on her.Help solve the problems of the world on her.I can just imagine what real artificial intelligence technology is going to be.
It is not just millennials that are glued to these devices, go to a bar and see every body order a drink, and sit down with the phone, and start texting, or checking into fartbook.
PS nobody will talk to you if you do not look at them.
We’ve got an old phone that my wife keeps in her car in case of roadside emergencies, that’s it. It seems these days if you see somebody driving like an idiot, or blocking the aisle at the grocery store, upon closer inspection you will find a phone glued to their head. I have listened in on conversations from time to time in public (well half-conversations anyway); it’s always the most banal, mundane stuff imaginable. I swear some people just have a need to mindlessly yammer.
I remember that episode of star trek
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Yeah its like that. Everyone will be taken. Meanwhile half the population believes that an alien invasion would occur like they see in the movies. Haha how very naive.
Ironic, ain’t it? A millenial whining about millenials being hooked on their phones. If y’all liked this little screed, go to Market Watch and read her whine about there being too many gun stores. Whadda fuggin airhead.
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