The document discusses people's growing reliance and addiction to mobile technology. It notes that 77% of UK teens experience nomophobia or cell phone addiction. When we receive texts or notifications, dopamine is released in our brains giving us pleasure. As a result, people are constantly checking their phones to get this feeling. However, this leads us to miss face-to-face interactions and be unaware of our real-world surroundings. The average person now carries their phone with them 97% of the time and a large percentage of mobile internet use is for social media like Facebook and Instagram. While technology keeps us connected, overreliance on screens can diminish real-world interactions if unchecked.

1. The Reliance On Mobile
Technology
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2. 77% of teens in the
UK experience
Nomophobia, cell
phone addiction.
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3. When we receive a text message or phone call,
Dopamine is released in the brain and it gives
us a euphoric feeling
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4. People addicted to their mobile devices
constantly check social media and text
messages in hopes to get that feeling
again.
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5. With our heads constantly in our
phones we miss out on face to
face conversations
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6. We don’t see the
world around us.
The average person carries their
smart phone around with them
97% of the time
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7. Only seeing beautiful landscapes on
a computer background
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8. The number of people accessing
the internet by a mobile phone
has increased by 60.3% to 818.4
million in the last 2 years.
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9. Much of this mobile internet
use is to access social media
sites.
15% of total mobile internet time spent on social
media in the United states
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10. 543million people world
wide use mobile
technology to
accessFacebook
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11. There are more instagram
photos posted each day
than there are English
language Wikipedia pages
ever published
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12. People obsess over “likes”, “re-
tweets”, “followers”, “friends”
and “shares”
Mobile life starts to surpass or even
become real life
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13. The fastest growing demographic
forFacebookand Twitter users is
people over 45 years of age
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14. Facebook users also seem to be
starting earlier and earlier with
young children lying about their
age to create an account
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15. Mobile devices projected to exceed
10 billion by 2017
That’s 1.4 mobile devices per person
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16. With every generation becoming more
and more reliant on technology to
communicate
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17. What would happen if the lights went out??
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18. Would relationships continue to
function without mobile
technology?
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19. We live in a world where it is
inexcusable to be unavailable.
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20. While using mobile technology
may be necessary to stay
connected in a growing futuristic
world, moderation is a must as the
world outside of a cell phone
screen will diminish if neglected.
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21. References
http://penheel.com/2013/10-marketing-and-social-media-stats-you-dont-want-to-miss/
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/blog/post/are-you-addicted-your-cell-phone
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/binaries/research/cmr/cmr12/CMR_UK_2012.pdf
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/
ns827/white_paper_c11-520862.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57480950-93/facebook-over-
955-million-users-543-million-mobile-users/