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Disturbing cell phone statistic

bigred said:
www.reviews.org

Cell Phone Usage Stats 2026: Americans Check Their Phones 186 Times a Day

Americans check their phones 186 times a day in 2026. See stats on addiction, screen time by generation, daily habits, and how phone usage is changing.
www.reviews.org www.reviews.org

Seriously? On a typical day I can count on one hand how many times I check my phone. wtf. This is a truly scary stat to me.
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It doesn't scare me. I also am very skeptical of this statistic. Seems to me that this is clickbait nonsense. They publish a surprising statement that leads to people clicking on it. Not that it is necessarily true.

There is so much of this today on the internet. I would say that half the stuff I look at today fits this description.
 
I get notifications for emergency events that happen within 5km of my home.

To my utter amazement, there are about 20 notifications per day.

Other than that, I typically only use my phone to look things up, or send a message.

I guess I'm pulling the average down.
 
acbytesla said:
It doesn't scare me. I also am very skeptical of this statistic. Seems to me that this is clickbait nonsense. They publish a surprising statement that leads to people clicking on it. Not that it is necessarily true.
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Fair enough. In fact, I hope you're right.
 
bigred said:
Fair enough. In fact, I hope you're right.
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It's such a huge figure. I just don't buy it. I am so sick of clickbait titles like this. I'm not immune to them. But realize after I start reading or watching them that is very likely what they are.

I can hear notification alarms on my phone going off about 20+ times a day. But I don't immediately look at the phone and dismiss the notification. No, a few times a day I look a list of them. I might click on one or two. But I generally hit the clear list icon. Now I look at my phone when I get a text or phone call. That amounts to about 10 of those a day. I think I'm above average in phone use for an adult male. But 180 might be low for a teenager. But I don't think anyone wants to be a slave to their phone.
 
It's not uncommon for me to not look at my phone all day. And some days I will use it only to see what is coming up on my calendar. I only ever open it for any type of social media when I am killing time in a waiting room somewhere. I average less than one call or text a day, incoming and outgoing combined.
 
Well. I check my phone to see the time. Occasionally I pick it up to check emails. And of course I check it when it actively pings at me, with an update about something I actually care about.

Other than that, I'm not checking it. I'm using it. To read, to doomscroll, to trade dad jokes with my niece...

But.

It wouldn't surprise me, if there are a lot of people who are addicted to social media, who are constantly checking their phone for updates from Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, Bumble, etc. It's probably an addiction, and it's probably not healthy.
 
I don't know about checking it habitually, but mine alerts all the time with customers and suppliers texting or emailing days, nights and weekends, so I'm responding to the Phone People more than recreationally checking. Then again, while the device is in my hand, that's when I look at the perpetually open tab for this joint.
 
Orphia Nay said:
And how long are you on your computer?
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For work, about 8 hrs. Otherwise, generally an hour or so/day on avg. And?

It's not using a cell phone per se that caught my eye, it was checking it so many times. That's like severe OCD/ADD/some other D.
 
Seriously, what I hate about this article is that it demonstrates one of the worst traits of the media today. Titles that are exaggerations or outright fabrications. They over and over post a title that piques your interest. But when you read the article, it's maybe mundane and very often not even close to being true. But that isn't the point, the point was for us to click on it, read the article or watch the video and they get paid.

Not for publishing something truly interesting that is true, But for a lead that makes us waste our time on crap. Or even worse, having us believe something that isn't true.
 
acbytesla said:
It doesn't scare me. I also am very skeptical of this statistic. Seems to me that this is clickbait nonsense. They publish a surprising statement that leads to people clicking on it. Not that it is necessarily true.

There is so much of this today on the internet. I would say that half the stuff I look at today fits this description.
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I agree with Acbytesla, even if it's based on an actual survey (which I'm not convinced of), who really knows how often the check their phone, especially if its about 200 times a day.

Headline is almost certainly BS.
 
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