SCREENAGERS | Addicted to Screens
Teens are becoming more addicted to their devices than ever. Check out these mind-blowing statistics:
- 1 in 3 people would rather give up sex than their phone | Elephant Journal
- Kids spend twice as long playing on screens than they do outside | The Independent
- Kids spend less time outside than the average prisoner | Foundation for Economic Education
- The average age for children to receive their first phone is dropping below 10-years-old | TechCrunch
- Steve Jobs banned his kids from using iPads | Business Insider
- 95 percent of teens have a phone | Pew Research
- Teens spend 11 hours on their devices each day| KFF & MarketWatch
- Half of teens feel addicted to their phones | CNN
- 56 percent of teens associate the absence of their phone with loneliness, being upset, or feeling anxious | Pew Research
- Social networking is related to depression, and suicide rates have gone up 65 percent for girls| The Atlantic
The iPhone apocalypse is here…
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